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Marcel Heyne

URIDU looks for partners in MENA to educate Illiterate Rural Women on health

Created by Marcel Heyne 2612 days ago

Every 6 seconds a child under 5 dies. Most of these deaths are entirely preventable. We could save millions of lives by providing illiterate mothers in developing countries with accessible health education. To this end, URIDU has developed an...

Rabha Fathi

Closing conference by AFEL on the promotion of women's political participation

Created by Rabha Fathi 2613 days ago

On February 22, 2018, the Association of Egyptian Female Lawyers organized the closing conference of the program ‘’for the promotion of women’s political participation – Awareness’’ at the Safir Dokki Hotel in...

Life Foundation

Economic empowerment of female prisoners in Egypt

Created by Life Foundation 2614 days ago

Life foundation for development and community integration has recently launched the new component of its project ‘’Prisoners rehabilitation and integration – Focus on female prisoners’’ which aims to provide...

Foundation's Team

Meeting with the EIB on how to integrate a gender lens in its investments

Created by Foundation's Team 2630 days ago

Every year the European Investment Bank (EIB) invites civil society stakeholders to explain what it is doing and how decisions are made. The 2018 Seminar between Civil Society and the EIB’s Board of Directors took place in Luxemburg on 5 of...

Safaa Ali Hassan

CEDAW Association trains women of Sohag on electoral campaign management

Created by Safaa Ali Hassan 2630 days ago

As part of its mission to support and empower women in Egypt, CEDAW Association has recently completed the training of 20 women on electoral campaign management in preparation for the new battle of Egyptian women to participate in local elections,...

Hala Bugaighis

Ebtikar (Creativity) contest for social leadership

Created by Hala Bugaighis 2632 days ago

The Jusoor Center for Studies and Development and the Silphium Project in partnership with Ilham Company organize the Ebtikar (Creativity) contest for social leadership. The contest aims to provide a creative environment for young women between 18...

Jaume Guardans

Global Citizenship Education Fund: citizenship education with a long-term vision

Created by Jaume Guardans 2640 days ago

Values such as non-violence and equality can be improved thanks to a formative offer that enables teachers and students to face to the cultural challenges of our societies. For that reason, IDEABORN is working from Barcelona to sustain, with a...

Foundation's Team

The impact of climate change on the empowerment of oasis women in Tozeur

Created by Foundation's Team 2644 days ago

The association La ruche de la citoyenneté active à Tozeur [The hive of active citizenship in Tozeur] (Tunisia) works towards developing the oasis territories as regions that require specific treatments -especially in the face of...

Foundation's Team

Analyzing the role of elected women in local authorities in Ifrane

Created by Foundation's Team 2644 days ago

The principle of gender equality in Morocco is stated in the Constitution, more specifically in Article 19. Similarly, the laws of local authorities and the general legal environment confirm that gender equality is a priority for the country....

Association TAZGHART

Project: Support for the promotion of women's self-employment in Azrou

Created by Association TAZGHART 2645 days ago

The project "Promotion of Women’s Self Employment" is a citizens’ initiative that promotes the human development and emancipation of women in Azrou and the Middle Atlas. The project "Promotion of women’s self-employment”,...

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Foundation's Team

AtGender

Created by Foundation's Team 3630 days ago

The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation is a broad association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions. It works in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies, feminist research, women’s...

Documents

Foundation's Team

The Rising Tide - A new look at Water and Gender

Created by Foundation's Team 2487 days ago

The report reviews a vast body of literature to present a "thinking device" that visualizes water as an asset, a service, and a "space." It shows water as an arena where gender relations play out in ways that often mirror inequalities between the...

Foundation's Team

Human Capital, Labour Market Friction and Migration in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia

Created by Foundation's Team 2487 days ago

This study provides an overview of the main characteristics of education systems and labour markets in four Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) – namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia – and discusses the difficulties...

Foundation's Team

Care Work and Care Jobs: For the future of decent work

Created by Foundation's Team 2487 days ago

This report analyses the ways in which unpaid care work is recognized and organized, the extent and quality of care jobs and their impact on the well-being of individuals and society. A key focus of this report is the persistent gender inequalities...

Foundation's Team

Promoting women's economic empowerment: Recognizing and investing in the care economy

Created by Foundation's Team 2490 days ago

Care work is a crucial element for human well-being as well as an essential component for a vibrant, sustainable economy with a productive labour force. Care work ensures the complex and life-sustaining web on which our very existence depends. Women...

Foundation's Team

The role of Gender in the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict

Created by Foundation's Team 2490 days ago

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a gender inclusive perspective, seeking to explore and establish some of the ways in which Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza are affected by two interlocking...

Foundation's Team

Girl power in education: The case of high school students in El Jadida

Created by Foundation's Team 2490 days ago

Education today is increasingly being feminized with girls accounting for the large majority of the student population at all levels. This feminization is happening not only in terms of number of girls but also in terms of performance. The present...

Foundation's Team

Are Females good Managers in MENA Countries?

Created by Foundation's Team 2490 days ago

This policy brief tries to answer the important question of whether firms gain from women participation in management positions. The debate on academic and policy levels have not reached a consensus regarding the existence of gender gaps in firm...

Foundation's Team

Gendering the Arab Spring

Created by Foundation's Team 2491 days ago

The article discusses the gendered implications of recent political developments in the region. It argues that women and gender are key to both revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and developments and not marginal to them. It explores...

Foundation's Team

Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility of Women Educational Attainment and Inclusive Policies in Arab Countries

Created by Foundation's Team 2492 days ago

Intergenerational educational mobility refers to the extent to which education attainments are able to change across generations. If there were no intergenerational mobility in education, at all, all poor children would become poor adults and all...

Foundation's Team

Girls'Rights are Human Rights

Created by Foundation's Team 2493 days ago

Girls continue to be the largest excluded group in the world. They face discrimination and abuse simply for being young and female. At all stages of their early lives up to adulthood, girls face distinct disadvantages that are directly related to...

They are registered on the platform of the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation

Al-Mashreq for development and population
Mor Masa Ritüeli
Isha L'Isha - Haifa Feminist Center
Women in Morocco
Women'  s Solidarity Fund (WSF)
Kasdi Merbah Ouragla University
Forum de Femmes Méditerranée (FFM)
MSA University
Future Pioneers for Empowering Communities (FPEC)
Community Development and Caring Children with Special Needs Association (SCDA)
Morocco Volunteers
Sarab Center for Culture and Community Arts
Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines (Jossour FFM)
Sami Zouari
Jbail- Byblos Municipality
Development Association of South Gafsa -  DGSC
Association for the Development & Enhancement of Women (ADEW)
Aix Marseille Université
Arij Khamis Al Zawi
Social Association  Active Woman  of the Tizi-Ouzou Wilaya
The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (RDFL)
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)
Benno pour reussir
Soroptimist Club Marrakech
CEDAW Association for Democracy and Human Rights
Libya Women's Forum
Sihem Benallal Benrahou
Assiwar- the Feminist Arab Movement
Mohammed V University- Agdal Rabat
Association El Ghaith
Association of Women in Green Economy (AFEV)
Organization Dihya for Development
International Organisation for Women in the Seafood Industry
Union Nationale de la Femme Tunisienne (UNFT)
Elham Ibrahim Younis Abdelaal
Voix de la Femme Jemmeliya (VFJ)

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Equality for local development: gender mainstreaming in municipalities

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