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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2018 WWW. UNWLA .ORG 9 Ukraine at the Commission on the Status of Women a presentation by Halyna Skipalska on Empowering Women and Girls Living in Ukraine’s Rural Communities by Martha Kichorowska Kebalo, Main Representative, United Nations Economic and Social Council, World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations On Friday March 23, 2018, as part of the 62 nd ses- sion of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations hosted a side event entitled “Em- powerment of Ukraine's Rural Wo men and Girls.” The event was organized by the National Council of Women of Ukraine together with the World Fed- eration of Ukrainian Women's Organizations and was supported by several participating NGO co - sponsors. Six experts spoke on the effects of Ukrain e’s ongoing reforms on women and girls re- siding in rural areas: Dr. Lyudmyla Porokhnyak , President of the NCW - Ukraine; Tatiana Strub- chevska, NGO “Intellectual Ukraine,” head of a civil society committee at the State Statistics Ser- vice of Ukraine; Natalia H natyuk, former mayor of Hrytsiv village in the Khmelnytsky oblast; Mariya Dmytriyeva, reporting for the NGO “Democracy Development Center” (Kyiv); Natalka Karbowska, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund; and Halyna Skipalska, of the Ukraine Fou n- dation for Public Health. The panel was opened by Ukraine’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Yuriy Vitrenko, and was moderated by Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Secu- rity. The conference room was filled to capacity; among those attending were members of a delega- tion of women entrepreneurs and small town lead- ers from Ukraine’s various oblasts, brought to- gether to participate at the CSW 62 by Svitlana Salamatova of Kyiv (ICA - I) . A troubling side - effect of the reforms dis- cussed during the side event by Natalia Karbowska and Mariya Dmytriyeva is the fact that women’s representation at the village council level, which has traditionally been high (and has been the one arena for women’s fuller eng agement in decision making), is being steadily eroded through the pro- cesses of decentralization. A plausible explanation for this is that decentralization allows local coun- cils to govern their own budgets ; men are muscling women out of elected positions th at have any con- trol over funds. (For more information on this see https://portal.lviv.ua/news/2018/03/02/zbil- shennya - predstavnitstva - zhinok - u - kerivnitstvi - otg - pidvishhuye - riven - doviri - do - vladi - gennadiy - zubko ). During the CSW 62, Halyna Skipalska rep- re sented Ukraine at an event organized by Health Right International. She delivered her presenta- tion (see text below) at the Ukraine - focused Side Event on March 23 and emphasized the need for better access to health services for women and girls living in rur al areas, highlighting the advantages of the mobile health services model in serving small communities living without local clinics. Ms. Skipalska is the Executive Director of the Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health (UFPH) and, since 2008, has also served as the Uk - raine Country Di- rector for Health - Right, a respected service provider and advocacy organization help- ing vulnerable populations — especially wo men and youth — gain access to health and other vital ser- vices. Since 2014, HealthRight and UFPH have been responding with emergency support services to the needs of Ukraine’s internally displaced pop- ulations. Since 2015 UFPH and HealthRight have been offeri ng comprehensive social, health and psychosocial services to survivors of violence, IDP women with children, HIV - positive and street - in- volved women, incarcerated women and youth, and survivors of torture, including both military and civilian prisoners of w ar.
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