Palestine /Hebron/Ein Sarah St. /Beside University Graduates Union and AlAmanah supermarket.
Hebron
Territoires palestiniens
- Gender
Roles for Social Change Association " ADWAR" was established at the beginning of 2010 by a group of female and male students studying at Hebron University. Those volunteers worked really hard since they strongly believe in the social justice.
First:
To improve Capacity building of Palestinian women and girls along with empowering them socially, to reduce violence against women so they will be capable of active, civic participation and living in a society characterized by social justice.
Second:
Contributing in empowering the Palestinian women and girls economically, to reduce unemployment as well as providing job opportunities and eliminating all the types of discrimination and gabs based on gender, within (6 years).
Third:
Contributing in raising the political awareness of the Palestinian women and girls, in addition to encourage them to participate in civil democratic life and to involve in advocacy and lobby decision makers, to ensure fair laws for women.
Fourth:
To improve the Palestinian society Awareness and capacity building for governmental and nongovernmental organizations about gender’s policies and procedures as well as the importance of gender’s contribution towards Palestinian society welfare.
Gender and Development Program The program seeks for: 1) Empowering and supporting women by allowing them to participate as equal as men in all aspects of life. through process contain in all individual, groups community and societal levels and in all social, economic and political fields and decision making by doing so, they will undoubtedly be effective not just receivers, and benefit from development plans and programs. In order to be also the development's method and aim. 2) Making the Palestinian society more aware about the concept of "Gender" generally in all social, economic, political fields. 3) Affecting the policies and procedures in the different governmental and non- governmental institutions. It will be done through adopting policies and programs concern the gender issues and social justice. 4) Working with media in order to show women's needs as well as their ambitions and desires in order to change the society stereotype about the women roles. 5) Alliance with the local, regional and international, through campaigns Pressure and advocacy at the local level to increase the awareness about the social justice democracy and civic participation and creating an effective of a social and political . mobility to amend certain laws and legislation. Our program seeks for achieving it goals through the following activities: 1) Trainings in the fields of gender and empowerment. 2) Capacity building. 3) Workshops. 4) Lectures and seminars. 5) Regular meetings. 6) Media programs. 7) Local, regional and international coalitions 8( Advocacy campaigns. 9) Studies and researches. 10) Social counseling.
Joining ADWAR Association to the network . it will help us to view issues and concerns of women in Palestine from the perspective of gender . and highlight the needs of Palestinian women and their rights as well as the importance of raising the voice of all Palestinian women in the world .also to recruit the humans support for Palestinian women's rights .
Because we want to strengthen our relations at an international level and we want to show our programs and projects of the world and share our experiences with different institutions and increase of our knowledge. Also to increase the cooperation in order to implement projects in our country according to what our target group need .