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Wathiqah project to enhance women’s participation in decision-making

The initiative seeks to create women leaders in political affairs, contribute to activating their governmental status, prove their professional competence, and try to change the stigmatized view of society from women's weakness in political participation, highlighting institutional and political violence directed against them, and training officials of women's departments in how to address it.

The project addresses building confidence among women in participating in decision-making in government bodies that hold senior and middle executive positions as an inherent right of women to effective partnership in societal change, through training women (20) officials of women’s empowerment departments in ministries on how to address institutional and political violence By building their capacities in knowledge of gender and gender policy and how to activate it in the face of violence against women, and implementing a round table to create channels of communication between decision makers, trainees and women survivors of violence to raise awareness of abusive women’s issues in political positions. And announcing the design of the website by receiving complaints from women survivors of institutional and political violence. The project also presents the production of (2) videos, the first about real stories of politically abused women, and the second video about announcing the website for complaints and how to use it and implementing episodes on the radio number (4) To find out about the challenges facing women in institutional and political affairs.

General objective

Improving the role of women in political participation

Objectives

  • Work to raise the capacities of (20) women's empowerment officials in the ministries on gender and gender policy, and how a unified website for institutional and political violence is supervised by the Women's Empowerment Units for a period of (5) days.
  •  Creating channels of communication between women and officials by setting up a round table that brings them together to highlight the challenges and successes facing women leaders.
  •  Working on educating decision-makers on the challenges facing women in the institutional and political field by producing two videos
    the first highlights the reasons for the weak effective participation at the local and national levels and the second announces a website and ways to use it, especially
    to record cases of survivors of administrative obstacles Successful women in leadership positions.
  •  Broadcasting 4 episodes on audio channels to highlight what women suffer in the field of leadership positions.

About the Leadership Organization

The Leadership Organization for the Empowerment of Women and Youth is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that seeks to lead women and youth and empower them in all fields through capacity building programs and projects, defending their rights and advocacy, and employing scientific research to identify and address strengths and weaknesses.

The Leadership Organization for the Empowerment of Women and Youth is headquartered in Ghat, and we have a branch in Tripoli and a branch in the mountain, and we have coordinators in most of the municipalities in Libya.