Tea For Two

The TFT project was funded by the European Union Community Programme on Gender Equality (2001-2005) . The project officially began the first of October 2006 and lasted until the end of December 2007. This project aimed to promote equal participation of women and men in local politics and governments by analysing the situation, and to strengthen the practical municipal work for gender equality and raise awareness of the issue. Thereby it addressed the specific aims of the Gender Equality Programme and this call’s theme of gender equality and local development.

The project was trans-national and involved five European countries: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Bulgaria and Greece.

The main objectives of the TFT project were the following:

1. To collect information on women’s and men’s participation in local governments and develop a tool for such data collection and measurement.
   
   
2. Make the information available
   a. to the general public, in visual and accessible form
   b. to local governments to evaluate their progress towards a more equal society
   c. to governments to monitor municipal authorities’ status on gender equality
   d. for future comparison and monitoring of changes