Roles for Social Chang Association ADWAR continues implementing activities of the project (Increasing Women’s Political Participation Through Effective local election in Marginalized community)

Thursday 30/8/2016 at the council local of al Ramadeen gathered Bedouin /AlRamadin AlDahreya – south Hebron
Roles for Social Chang Association ADWAR continues implementing activities of the project (Increasing Women’s Political Participation Through Effective local election in Marginalized community) in partnership with the German Cooperation (GIZ) and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The project is implemented in partnership with the Local Bedouin councils, Protection committees, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, General Union of Palestinian Women, Central Election Commission and Ma’an Network. The project is targeting Bedouin women in the Bedouin Communities of South Hebron and East Jerusalem which located in (C) areas including (Yatta, AlRamadin, and east Jerusalem).
The first capacity building training targeted Bedouin women in AlDahreya-Arab AlRamadin, AlJahaleen/Abu Nowar gathering, and Yatta south of Hebron.
The program aims to improve the capacities of marginalized Bedouin women about the importance of political participation in local elections through nomination and voting, as well as access to decision-making positions in the local Bedouin councils, in order to raise gender practical and strategic based services level.
As ADWAR’s general director Sahar Yousef AlKawasmeh also added that this program will contribute to the refinement of trainees about the importance of participating in the electoral process and how to be active and confident to get through difficulties that could face them within social and political field at local councils and Bedouin communities in general.