| Full legal
name of organisation in native language |
Naiskoolituse Keskus |
| Name of
organisation in English language |
Women’s Training Center |
| Acronym |
WTC Estonia |
| Country |
Estonia |
| Country code |
EE |
| Organisation
address |
Turu 6a-13, Tallin 10113, Eesti |
| Last and first
name of the contact person |
Reet Laja |
| Title and
position in the organisation |
Chair Women’s Training Center |
| Phone (include
country and area codes) |
(372) 6 269 850 |
| Fax (include
country and area codes) |
(372) 6 269 854 |
| E-mail address |
Valejuk@infonet.ee,
laja@online.ee, riinak@sm.ee |
| Home page
address |
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Type of organisation (legal status, main areas and type of activity)
The Women's Training Centre(WTC) is a non-profit organisation, an NGO.
The main area of activity is to provide women-targeted courses on a variety of subjects
(total number of trainees up until today about 3,000) including:
 | Business courses (start-up, marketing, financial management, accounting, business
expansion, etc). |
| Business promotion (mentoring, contact seminars, and also international seminars
involving female business owners from Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, the Baltic States, and St
Petersburg). |
| Political training including women's participation in public life and political
campaigns. |
| Training on presentation skills, building self-confidence, networking, etc). |
| Training for building a civil society. |
The WTC's members are actively involved in a range of women- and
adult-education related training schemes, including gender mainstreaming, the Estonian
educational policy, and job creation for women in economically disadvantaged areas of
Estonia, etc. A number of projects were conducted throughout Estonia thanks to excellent
co-operation with the majority of Estonian women’s NGOs (total 160), female
parliamentarians, and high-ranking female officials.
Size of organisation, in terms of the total number of personnel (use full-time
equivalents)
The organisation has seven members, five of them are board members.
Full- and part-time employment depends upon the number of on-going projects and varies
over time. The organisation collaborates with about twenty well-known lecturers in
Estonia. It has an active network of 40 volunteers. The equivalent of less then one
full-time employee will take part in this project.
Evidence of experience of the organisation of the women’s employment issues and
experience in international co-operation
The organisation has been extensively involved in foreign-funded
projects. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the WTC has run women-oriented projects funded
by the British Know-How Fund, the US-Baltic Foundation, the US Embassy in Tallinn, Sida in
Sweden, Minerva Foundation in Sweden (under the Leonardo scheme), the Finnish Embassy in
Estonia. Several projects are currently in the application phase. The members of the WTC
have been extensively involved in preparing the National Report for the Beijing Conference
on Women and arranging post-Beijing conferences in Estonia to promote women's empowerment.
International projects
Name of project: Promotion of
women’s entrepreneurship
Project duration: 1990-1991
Participants: Estonia, Sweden
Name of project: Business start-ups
Project duration: 1992-1994
Participants: United Kingdom, Estonia (financed by the British Know-How Fund)
Name of project: Women’s integration into public life
Project duration: 1995
Participants: Estonia (financed by the UNDP)
Name of project: Promotion of women into positions of power
Project duration: 1996-1997
Participants: Estonia (financed by the US-Baltic Foundation)
Name of project: Women as
decision-makers
Project duration: 1998
Participants: (financed by the US Embassy in Estonia)
Name of project: Women in politics
Project duration: 1999
Participants: Estonia, Sweden (financed by SIDA)
Name of project: Mentorship programme to advance women in
decision-making positions (Leonardo da Vinci)
Project duration: 1999-2001
Participants: Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia
Name of project: Data-base of Estonian women-owned businesses and
mentorship scheme
Project duration: 1999
Participants: Estonia (financed by the Finnish Embassy in Estonia)
Name of project: Promotion of
business contacts between Estonian and St Petersburg businesswomen
Project duration: 2000
Participants: Estonia, Russia, St Petersburg (financed by the Soros Foundation) |
