In April 2002, Soros Open Network welcomed its 13th member organization, namely the Partnership for Equality Center (PEC). Formerly the Women's Program of Open Society Foundation Romania, PEC is carrying on its mandate of taking over gender-related programs and projects initiated within OSF, in order to preserve the resources and investments made over the past five years (the Women's Program of OSF was launched in 1998).
The transformation of the Women's Program into PEC is the natural consequence of the OSF's development plans for a more comprehensive, sustainable approach to the activity of its most successful programs. This falls within the frame of the creation of Soros Open Network, a value-based network of 13 autonomous nongovernmental organizations sprung from OSF's programs, which fosters Romania's sustainable development.

Within the PEC Directing Council session hold in 11 December 2003, after assessing and evaluating the activities' impact, a decision for strategically reorganizing and concentrating the organization's programs has been taken. Taking into consideration the results of the activities developed over 2002 and 2003, the Directing Council identified the following three institutional program pilons for its current and future 2005-2006 activities:

1. THE NATIONAL OBSERVATORY ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN
The main objective of the program is the development of the National Observer, an integrate mechanism of promoting the equal opportunities for women and men in the public life, with emphasis on the labor market issues, and economical and social rights. The program objective is to be attained through the following actions:
- Creation of an information, research and resource structure in the gender equality area
creation of a series/set of monitoring mechanism for the respect of the principle of equal opportunities for women and men, at legislative and central administration level;
- Initiation and development of lobby and advocacy actions for ensuring real and consistent equal opportunities for women and men;
- Training specific target groups for the promotion of the principle of equal opportunities for women and men in all the areas of the public life.

2. GENDER AND EDUCATION
The main objectives of the program are:
- Civic involvement to support the gender equality principle by increasing the teachers' competence regarding civic education from the perspective of the European integration;
- Development of practices and attitudes in the educational process, in the spirit of equal opportunities and equal treatment for the girls and boys, women and men;
- Development of a healthy life style by integrating the gender differences issues in the educational and health services programs;
- Prevention of trafficking in women, by raising their awareness about the risks associated with the illegal migration and trafficking in women, through specific sexual and gender education.

3. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The main objectives of the program are:
- Increasing the information and awareness level regarding the gravity and economical and social consequences of the violence against women phenomenon, through educational intervention projects;
- Sustaining the non-governmental organizations involved in the prevention of violence against women by creating a common framework of intervention against violence by analyzing, evaluating and implementation policies and methods for assisting and counseling victims of violence;
- Lobby actions to create and influence the specific legal environment, according to the reality and complexity of the domestic violence phenomenon;
- Conducting researches regarding the phenomena of domestic violence and violence at the workplace.

In 2004, taking into consideration the new programs structure and the change of the visual identity, Partnership for Equality Center became Center for Partnership and Equality, know as CPE.
Being aware of the role that it must play in changing and reforming the Romanian civil society and society at large, CPE is aiming at responding to the most ardent issues present in the gender area.