The training gathered 7 members of NGO Atina and 25 learners – 12 representatives of the WEEMPOWER partner and collaborating organizations, 3 members of the Advocacy Group of women with experience of migration, and 10 migrant women who are taking active part in NGO Atina’s activities within the Asylum Center Krnjača in Belgrade.

The second training centered around the concept of participation, as it is vital in enabling the inclusion of everyone in the decision-making process. This includes the participation of female migrants and refugees in all the steps by decision-makers. The host association Atina includes migrant women as an integral part of all their programmatic steps (in preparing policy papers, advocating for changes in protocols and procedures, increasing their voices through civic initiatives, etc.). This concept of full participation should be relevant for state institutions to better respond to the contexts and needs of migrant women. Participation in its complete form, in such a way that it works, is only sometimes achievable in Serbia (or elsewhere), but it is possible.

Overall, the second transnational training contributed to the following objectives relevant to the WE-EMPOWER project:

• To share and exchange experiences and introduce reasonable practice solutions from other countries and how they can be applied.
• To promote improvement in the accessibility of migrant women to democratic institutions.
• To have migrant women and girls access democratic institutions more efficiently and become included in decision-making processes.
• Compile and reflect on future action recommendations based on the exchange and good practice examples.
• To have the voices of migrant and refugee women and girls heard, to have them participate in all the decision-making processes that affect their lives.