CIDA fund Russian women's project. (Commission On The Future Of Health Care).
Moscow -- The Canadian International Development Agency The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is a Canadian government agency which administers foreign aid programs in developing countries. CIDA operates in partnership with other Canadian organizations in the public and private sectors as well as other has increased its support for a project to help improve gender equality in the Russian labour market by $600,000 for a total of $2.6 million. The Canadian and Russian partners are working with the Russian State Duma The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума to draft a model law on gender equality for both the federal and regional levels. The project also includes developing a course for union leaders on the gender aspects of collective bargaining collective bargaining, in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. , training for unemployed women in Kirov and establishment of an centre for women entrepreneurs in Murmansk. Carleton University Carleton University, at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; nonsectarian; coeducational; founded 1942 as Carleton College. It achieved university status in 1957. It has faculties of arts, social sciences, science, engineering, and graduate studies, as well as the Centre for and the Yukon government are managing the project with several Russian partners, including the Ministry of Labour and Social Development. 819-953-6534
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