Roles for Social Change Association-ADWAR finished the five Gender mainstreaming follow up workshops

19\3\2015

Roles for Social Change Association-ADWAR finished the five Gender mainstreaming follow up workshops

Roles for Social Change Association-ADWAR finished the five Gender mainstreaming follow up workshops in the framework of the project ”Promotion of the local democracy and economic activity through the reinforcement of Palestinian Non State Actors (NSA)” in partnership with Action Against Hunger ACF and Land Research Center LRC funded by European Union.

Those workshops were implemented in community based organizations (CBO’s) from targeted areas in the project:(AlHathaleen, Masafer Yatta, Tarqoumya, Sussya) in order to follow up with the projects’ action plan about concentrating on institutionalization of Gender mainstreaming during productive economic suggested projects’ implementation.  In which target groups suffered from the lack of knowledge towards gender, as they have enhanced their gender awareness and institutionalized it in their administrative and financial system for those CBO’s and targeted areas

Those workshops aimed at evaluating and review with target group about gender concepts and the importance of institutionalization of targeted CBO’s administrative and financial systems. As it continued to review gender sensitive approach for targeted CBO’s through presented project applications.

ADWAR’s general director Mrs.Sahar AlKawasmeh that gender mainstreaming follow up workshops enhanced women’s participation in public life and decision making. As the next phase of the project will include examining presented productive economic project applications for CBO’s in targeted areas so it will be implemented soon.