9. Development programmes and research projects for rural women in CEE countries
There are only a few development programmes for rural women going on in the project countries. In Estonia, the Estonian Farmers' Union has a special training programme for rural women; in Poland the Village Housewives' Training Organization has many programmer for rural women, while the Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture (FDPA) has launched the Women in Rural Enterprise Development Programme (WRED). In Slovakia, there are FAO projects on management, while in Slovenia (Trebnje) FAO and the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA) have had a training project on rural entrepreneurship and, most recently, projects organized by the Action Plan for Coordinated Aid to Poland and Hungary (PHARE).
There have been more research projects on rural women in CEE countries. In Latvia there is an ongoing research project on "Rural women in a changing society"; in Lithuania time budget surveys and an interview research on rural women were published in 1990-91. In Poland, three projects were carried out in order to examine the situation of women farmers, rural village households and women's work on the farm; in Slovenia there was a research project on farm families in 1991 and on extension and supplementary activities for farming families in 1994. In Bulgaria, a study on "Life in Town and Village" was undertaken in 1986.
