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The voice of women in business

Year Project Started
Region/Country
South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Role in the Project
Research Staff
Main Outcome
It documents the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in the country and highlights the success stories of women who overcame those obstacles. Women make up nearly 52 percent of the country’s working-age population, but their labor-force participation rate is only 43 percent, according to the report. Few women own businesses, although they show a growing interest in a business. Women account for 58 percent of students of business management in the country. The analysis shows that 72% of total loans were invested in business development and whose revenues had a positive impact on the quality of life of credit beneficiaries but over 20 years employed more than 300 persons, which was (income) on average 9,000 members of their families. The report aims to inform policymakers on the issues and provide role models for aspiring women entrepreneurs.

National Assesment Report on Women in rural areas and rural development in B&H / Supported by Gender Task Force Zagreb and BHWI Foundation

Year Project Started
Region/Country
South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Role in the Project
Co-Investigator
Main Outcome
Everyone has their own understanding of rural areas, a picture in their head of village life. Much of this may be accurate,
but unless regularly checked against reality, commonly-held views can become outdated and cease to be
a reliable basis for decision making. Many decisions have to be taken in the next few years as Bosnia and Herzegovina
strengthens its rural development plans and prepares to implement the EU’s “Instrument for Pre-accession in
Agriculture and Rural Development” (IPARD). The unique contribution of this report is not to anticipate the results
of that planning process but to prepare the ground, to challenge commonly-held assumptions and help establish
where the truth really lies.

PHASE II - Building the Capacities of BiH Institutions to Address Mental Health Issues Amongst Defence Personnel in BiH

The project’s overall objective to contribute to the Bosnia Herzegovina’s Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) efforts to improve access to all current and discharged military personnel regardless of gender to mental health and psychosocial services, particularly those who are participating peacekeeping mission will be achieved through two interlinking and mutually reinforcing components, namely: 1) to strengthen the human and technical capacities of the MOD’s to provide systematic and integrated responses to mental health issues, and 2) to support the exchange and utilisation of identified best pra

MIPEX Health Strand Country Report: Bosnia and Herzegovina

This report was produced within the framework of the IOM’s EQUI-HEALTH project, in collaboration with Cost Action IS1103 ADAPT and the Migrant Policy Group (MPG), with the financial contribution of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health, Food Safety (SANTE), through the Consumers, Health, Agriculture, and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) and IOM. 

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MRS No. 52 - Summary Report on the MIPEX Health Strand and Country Reports

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Health strand is a questionnaire designed to supplement the existing seven strands of the MIPEX, which in its latest edition (2015) monitors policies affecting migrant integration in 38 different countries. The questionnaire measures the equitability of policies relating to four issues: (A) migrants’ entitlements to health services; (B) accessibility of health services for migrants; (C) responsiveness to migrants’ needs; and (D) measures to achieve change.