Women Empowered for Leadership 2017-2021
The Arab Network for Civic Education-ANHRE launched the Women Empowered for Leadership project in partnership with HIVOS International and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The project aims at empowering local women mobilizers in 9 governorates in Jordan to take and influence informed decisions and responsible gender equality actions to impact political and societal development, opinion, practices and recognition.
The three-year project, from October 2017 to September 2020, targeted 9 communities from different governorates in Jordan; Karak, Maan, Tafilah, Zarqa, Madaba, Balqa, Irbid, Jerash and Ajloun. It aimed to set up an active network of local women mobilizers and CBOs aware of the gender context, the socio-cultural norms and traditions related to women’s rights and participation, in addition to women’s knowledge and capacities required to increase their opportunities. The goal was to get engaged in public life and decision-making for integrating gender equality to impact political and societal development and opinions. Moreover, this local network of CBOs and women take 9 practical community actions through sub-granting mechanism and mobilize other women to be involved in the public decision and increased gender sensitive local plans and agendas, perception and opinions.
"MOBADERAT" network has been launched that is specialized on planning, implementing and evaluating gender-sensitive community initiatives.
This project, indeed, worked on the key issues that have extremely affected women’s rights and women’s opportunities to participation and equal representation. These issues are governance structures “especially when it comes to the positioning of male component in the decision-making levels towards Gender Equality”, the socio-cultural norms and traditions related to women’s rights and participation and women’s knowledge and capacities required to increase their opportunities to get engaged in public life and decision-making for integrating gender equality to impact political and societal development and opinions
