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

Monday 26/9/2016 at AlJahaleen East of Jerusalem

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 capacity building training targeted Bedouin women in AlJahaleen/Abu Nowar gathering, in which aimed 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 and international conventions ,local laws and CEDAW convention the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.