Occupied Palestinian Territories: Gender Equality - Social, Political and Economic in the OPT

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Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Total Budget $9,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNRWA, ILO
Main Achievements
  • National strategy to combat violence against women (VAW) endorsed and institutionalized. Analysis of laws impeding women’s participation in labour market completed. National baseline established on gender-based violence in the world of work. Policy brief produced on mainstreaming gender equality in cooperatives.
  • Multi-purpose center for legal, social and economic empowerment in Gaza rehabilitated. Wide range of stakeholders trained on the provision of assistance to victims of VAW and on laws impeding women’s participation in work. Educators trained to combat violence in schools. 300 youth volunteers trained to be peer educators on gender equality, health and gender-based violence.
  • Grants provided for Income Generating Projects in 9 refugee camps in Gaza and 18 in the West Bank. 190 women empowered through leadership training.
Contact Hanna Nakhleh, Hanna.nakhleh@undp.org, JP Coordinator

The program promotes Palestinian women's social, economic and political empowerment. It aims to reduce all forms of gender-based violence by enhancing and increasing women's political voice; increasing their opportunities to obtain decent and productive work and improving their access to protection and justice.

Six UN agencies work with effective partners from civil society, the private sector and governmental institutions, following a rights-based approach, working on three strategic levels: grassroots, sub-central and central government. Interventions will include: formative research and lessons learned; capacity building of key institutions and organizations for advocacy for gender equality, gender-sensitive service delivery and monitoring of the MDGs; and an innovative mass media and communication campaign to raise popular support for gender equality. It will also include action: e.g., skill training and counseling; credit; women's leadership development.

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