''Initiative for harmonising of maternity benefits in BiH''

With a view to contribute to the improvement of the position of women, through exercising of human rights by newly delivered mothers in BiH, in the period November 2011-April 2012 Vesta Association will implement the project „Initiative for harmonising of maternity benefits in BiH“, funded by the UN Agency for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.

The following activities are foreseen within this project:

- Drafting an analytical basis on the status of maternity benefits in BiH

- Preparing recommendations for harmonising of maternity benefits in BiH

- Preparing a summary of analytical basis (policy brief)

- Preparing a plan of activities within the awareness raising campaign on the need to harmonise maternity benefits throughout BiH.

A summary of analytical basis will be presented to the legislative and executive authorities in BiH, while Vesta Association will advocate and lobby both for the legislative and for the practical reform in the field of harmonising of maternity benefits in BiH. Awareness raising campaign on this issue will be implemented, in order to make the general public more aware of this theme and draw attention to the equality of rights of newly delivered mothers in this ocontext.