Bosnia and Herzegovina Country Report
Nataša Aleksić
Public Relations Officer
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Republic of Srpska

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia and Herzegovina – basic info
Geographic location: Bosnia and Herzegovina islocated at the western part of Balkan peninsula.
Surrounding countries: Serbia (north-east),
Montenegro (south-east), Croatia (north, west andsouth).
Area: Bosnia and Herzegovina has 51,209.2 km² (land51,197 km² and sea 12.2 km²)
Climate: Mostly continental, Mediterranean at theSouth.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia and Herzegovina – basic info
Population: 3842942 - estimated (06.30.2007.)
Population structure: Bosniacs, Croatians,Serbians and others.

Religions: Islam, Orthodox, Catholic
Official languages: Serbian, Croatian and Bosnianwith two alphabets (Latin and Cyrillic)
Official currency: Convertible Mark (KM, BAM)
(1 KM/BAM = 0,511292 Euro)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina – basic info
Flag and cognizance

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About Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is very rich in waters. There are 6major rivers: Vrbas, Una, Bosna, Drina, Neretva and Savaand numerous smaller rivers
Landscape is dominated by Dinaric Alps (with the highestpoint Maglić - 2387m) on the Central and South BiH andfertile plains on the North.
Country has limited access to the Adriatic Sea through asmall strip of land (about 12 miles wide) in the Southwest
Thick forests cover almost 50% of the land
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Hometown - BanjalukaoooAs the university, economic, finance, political andadministrative center of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka
is the second biggest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina withthe population of 300 000.
Due to many of its green surfaces - parks and tree-lined
roads, Banja Luka is known as the city of greenery.
It is also called a city of young people, sport and culture.

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Hometown Banjaluka - photos

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Hometown Banjaluka - photos

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Organizational structure
BiH consists of two entities:o Republic of Srpska (RS) – 62 municipalities
o Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) - 10
cantons and 79 municipalities.

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Gender Mainstreaming Policies for Government Officers- Country Report – BiHOrganizational structure of health and social
sector in BiH
o Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH
o Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of theRepublic of Srpska
o Ministry of Health of Federation of BiH
o Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of RS

The mission of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic ofSrpska is to build modern, rational, efficient and effective institutions,committed to the policy of improving people’s health and conditions thataffect health and social welfare.

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Gender Mainstreaming Policies for Government Officers- Country Report – BiH

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Minister
Minister's officePublic relations

PCU

Secretary

Health careplanning and financing
sector

Health care sector

Pharmaceutical sector

Health care monitoringand evaluation
sectorSocial, family andchildren care sector

Department for legal
and administartive
affairs

Department for
primary health careand public healthSocial care
department

FinancialdepartmentDepartment for
secundary andterciary health care

Department forfamily and children
care

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Health and Social System Organization
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ofthe Republic of Srpska

Society of Doctors

Doctors ChamberSociety of Pharmacists

Society ofStomatologist

Institute for BloodTransfusion

Public Healt InstituteHealth Insurance FondInstitute for Phisical
Medicine andRehabilitation«Mlječanica»

Tertiary Health Care

Primary Health Care

Secundary Health Care

Family medicine
teamMental health centre

Centre for basic
rehabilitation

Drug Agencyof the Republic ofSrpska

Institute for ForensicMedicine

Agency for
Accreditation andHealthcare Quality
Improvement

Public Fund forChildren Care

Institute for PhisicalMedicine andRehabilitation «Dr
Miroslav Zotović»

Social Care Centers

Other profeissionalsocieties

Nongovernmnetalorganizations

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Gender issues regarding Health and Social Sector•••

Domestic violence
Women’s participation in politics and theirleadership
Gender inequality in health and social system of
the Republic of Srpska

Gender Mainstreaming Policies for Government Officers- Country Report – BiHObstacles
o Traditional role of women (from the point of viewof men and women)
o Insufficient knowledge of human rights
o Low budget and lack of human resources

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Objectives (before coming to Japan)• To gain additional knowledge about gender• To gain knowledge and skills in prevention ofdomestic violence• To learn more about promotion of gender equality• To exchange experience with other participants

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Achieved• Learned a lot about gender issues in the world• Learned a lot from the history of women• Gain knowledge about gender implementation indifferent areas of life
• Gain experience from strong and powerful women• Met a lot of beautiful and polity people• Enjoyed in Japan
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Action plan

Title – Men As Partners (MAS)
Objective – To raise awareness andsensibility for gender issues among men
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Action plan - Activities and Expected outcomes
Activities• Education for men• Development of educational and promotional
materials (from men’s points of view)• Engagement of famous and powerful men incampaigns

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Action plan - Expected outcomes• To decrease domestic violence• To raise awareness about gender issues among men• To achieve higher inclusion of man in gendermainstreaming processes• To have men as partners in sexual violence
prevention
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Good example
We believe that manhood is NOT defined:by how many sexual partners you have,by using violence against women or men,by how much pain you can endure,by how much power you can exert over others,
or by whether you are gay or straight.

We believe that manhood IS defined:by building relationships based on respect andequality,
by speaking out against violence in your society,by having the strength to ask for help,by shared-decision making and shared power,
and by how much you are able to respect the diversity
and rights of those around you.

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Good example – OK newsletter

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ContactNataša Aleksić, PR officer
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Government of Republic of Srpska
Address: Trg Republike Srpske 1, 78000 Banjaluka
Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phone +387 51 339 484
Fax +387 51 339 652
E-mail n.aleksic@mzsz.vladars.net

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