23 A Sudan St, Dokki, Giza
Dokki
Egypt
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
Our Mission
Egyptian Women Association for Development and Participation works on disseminating the values of equality, justice and freedom in the Egyptian society and encouraging women/girls to get their economic, legal, social and political rights by achieving the following objectives:
- Enabling Egyptian woman to defend her political, social, legal and economic rights.
- Raising the society's awareness concerning the importance of woman's participation and activating her role in the Egyptian society.
- Providing legal consultations and aid for women.
1- The Program of Economic Empowerment for Women
The association launches an initiative to improve the woman's opportunity in getting decent life and rehabilitate and empower her economically to achieve concrete progress in women's rights. This is through training and rehabilitation programs and providing job opportunities and small projects for her to have decent life.
This initiative aims at:
- Providing consultations and advices for women who undertake small projects.
- Training and rehabilitating women and girls who desire in establishing their own projects by training them on planning for their projects and means of getting funds and how to manage it.
- Raising awareness of economic rights for women.
2- The Program of Legal Aid for Women
Through the legal aid for women unit, the association provides all means of legal support for women, since the unit follows human rights-based and legal approach to disseminate legal awareness for women and change the current followed trend towards women's rights. The program also works on uniting the efforts of government, media means and civil society to guarantee that women reach justice and their human rights by increasing the society's awareness and enhancing the society's capacity and civil society organizations to support women legal rights.
The unit aims at:
- Forming network of NGOs to support women's issues and protect them from crimes committed against them.
- Raising women/girls' awareness of violence forms directed to them and how to get their legal rights against this violence.
- Providing legal consultations and aid for women and girls.
- Providing official papers that help them in getting their rights and that providing legal protection for them.
- Providing publications to use them as a means to aware women/girls of their legal rights.
3- The Program of Woman Participation in Democratic Transaction Process
The program aims at preparing woman calibers and supporting women opportunities in participating in decision making process. The association works on contacting with female members of vocational and labor syndicates, local councils and political parties and participating in decision making process by rehabilitating female candidates for parliament 2014 to participate in the electoral process and their influence on decision taking stage. Capable calibers have been prepared to stand for the electoral and political process with its all stages.
The program aims at:
- Preparing woman calibers and leaders to participate in the electoral process and influence on decision making.
- Training and rehabilitating team of electoral campaigns' managers to be able to support candidates.
- Training and rehabilitating female syndicalistic leaders to participate in decision making process in vocational syndicates.
- Team of female lawyers defenders of women's rights and calling for their rights.