Haidar Building/Nokta 4/Baalbek-Rayak Road
Baalbek
Lebanon
- Gender
- Heritage
- Human rights
Haqi Awrath NGO is in the start-up stage, consisting of 7 board members and a 6-member staff. Since its founding in 2021, the association has received about 370,000 dollars over three years (about 120,000$ per year) to implement 6 concrete projects on the right of women to inheritance, gender discrimination, and women’s economic empowerment. The first and second projects were funded by The Zovighian Partenership, with the partenariat of two local associations (Lebanese Youth Network and Women Now) the third one was funded by OCHA with the partenariat of ACTED and LOST organisations, the fourth project was funded by the Embassy of Canada to Lebanon (CFLI) and there are one ongoing and one upcoming project funded by WPHF with UN Women partenariat. The activities are awareness sessions on inheritance distribution laws, how to claim inheritance, and prevent deprivation of it... Young people are raised on this issue through theater and social media. We carry out advocacy campaigns and conduct research on the issue of inheritance through statistics and interviews...
Mission: Working towards the eradication of all forms of violence against women and girls, particularly economic violence, through collaboration with civil society, legal actors, social influencers, and authorities, aiming to eliminate all forms of discrimination and achieve gender social justice.
Objectives:
1. Achieving women's economic empowerment to eliminate all forms of dependency, especially through their right to inheritance.
2. Achieving legal empowerment for women and increasing awareness of women's rights, particularly their right to inheritance.
3. Ensuring women's access to power and decision-making positions to achieve gender social justice and enhance laws.
4. Achieving self-sufficiency and financial sustainability for the organization to continue supporting women and the community.
Sheghel Dayati project: The "Sheghel Dayati" project includes several activities aimed to economically empowering women to achieve financial independence. These activities involve capacity building courses in the food industry and handicrafts. Alongside these trainings, the association conducts separate awareness sessions to educate women about their rights and how to ensure their economic rights and manage them effectively.
Haqi-Aaraf project: During this project, the association provided model legal training on inheritance laws and the ways in which women are deprived of their rights. The implementation of the project included media campaigns on social media and traditional means. The project also included interviews and a conference with influencers and community leaders to gather information about the reasons for women's deprivation of inheritance, and we came up with recommendations and proposals for solutions.
Sahha and Afieh project: This project was about food security, it served 90 families that in dire need. Haqi-Awrath supported the most vulnerable families with meal kits and food parcels during two months. In addition, Haqi-Awrath created short-term employment opportunities for 18 local cooks and 24 young. A community kitchen was established in the center of Haqi-Awrath.
Project funded by the Canada Embassy: it started on August 2023, its end will be on 28 February 2024, it is about ”Enhancing women’s knowledge and claiming of their right to inheritance in Lebanon’s Baalbeck-Hermel governorate through research, training, legal advice and advocacy”.
Ongoing project funded by WPHF and UN Women: this project is complementary to that funded by the Canada Embassy, it will be implemented in Baalbeck-Hermel governorate but with different villages and city. A piece of theater will be realized during this project and then several plays will be conducted in the schools of this region. This project started on December 2023 and it will last 12 months.
Upcoming project funded by WPHF and UN Women: this project is related to an award assigned to Dr Ouloum AUDI, founder and president of Haqi Awrath Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund WPHF and Women Have Wings in coordination with UN Women. In the context of this award, peer exchange experiences will be covered by $8,000. Ouloum Audi from Haqi-Awrath Association, together with Maryam Al-Dirani from the Naba Association, will exchange experiences on women’s rights and empowerment. Ouloum will provide trainings on economic violence against women and protection for the Naba team, while Maryam will lead trainings on advocacy and campaigning.
The association's presence within the network will increase the reputation of its activity in Lebanon and expand it by inviting more Lebanese associations to join it. Publicizing the network’s activities through social media related to Haqi Awrath will strengthen the Network and Haqi Awrath together, as this will further enhance trust in both parties.
We want to join the Anna Lindh Foundation network to be informed of all the new projects and activities of the network’s members and partners because we believe that the issue of depriving women of their right to inheritance is a problem that most Arab countries suffer from. We hope to communicate with other Arab associations through the ALF Foundation in order to expand our work. Because Haqi Awrath is perhaps the first NGO in the Arab country working on this issue, we receive a lot of messages from women in the Arab country asking for awareness about this issue in their countries. We hope that women in Arab countries will benefit from our accumulated experiences and expertise to spread awareness about this topic in their countries.
