Co-founded in 2016, SHANTI is a social enterprise whose mission is to promote the design of innovative and creative solutions to the social, economic, cultural and environmental issues of Tunisia. Based on this principle, SHANTI has developed along...
As part of a field diagnosis on the development of female entrepreneurship in Setif (Algeria), the Women in Business of Algeria association (WIBA) organized a series of visits to several women-managed enterprises in different communes of the wilaya...
Life Foundation for development and community integration participated at Alexandria Short Film festival by providing a special award entitled ‘’A Step of Hope’’, a golden award to highlight the challenge of change,...
Women have an important role in the household management within the Bedouin community of Qatrana (Jordan); however, they have limited opportunity to learn about current issues relevant to best practices in household management. This project was one...
In 1962, when Algeria became independent, it set up a huge literacy programme. More than 85 percent of the population was illiterate, and despite considerable investment and progress in education, low levels of literacy remain a challenge today. As...
"Hikayat Nihad" is a TV program broadcast on Cairo and the people channel, presented by Nihad Abul-Qumsan in a simple and easy language. The program includes number of illustrated stories aiming at educating and supporting Egyptian women, as well...
Jordan’s poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border, was given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate women from around the world are trained in 6 months to become solar engineers. This documentary...
An estimated 80% of women in Jordan have faced street harassment, and 1 in 3 women in this country are survivors of physical violence. To this reality, Lina Khalifeh, a Jordanian citizen who didn’t like the fact that women don’t stand up...
With a population of over 32 million, literacy rates in Morocco stand at an average of 56%, representing over 10 million people lacking basic literacy skills. With literacy programmes frequently being carried out in urban areas, opportunities for...
In the recent years, the magnitude of sexual violence in Egypt increased significantly, especially following the 2011 popular uprising when mass rape and sexual assault occurred during several protests. Since then, organized efforts by civil society...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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