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- Project: The Arab network to monitor gender’s image in media
Project Partner: Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT)
Date & Place: May – November 2006, Cairo/Egypt
ACT is promoting the idea of an Arab network for media watch from a gender perspective and work on establishing it. Media play a major part in forming public images of men and women. In this context ACT aims to influence media and promote creating an alternative media vision that is supportive to gender equality in collaboration with media professionals in different domains. ACT will identify and contact interested NGOs and media experts. It will facilitate information exchange and organize a 5-day training/conference in which the participants will be trained on the basic concepts of gender media watch, discuss a network charter and plan for future activities of the network. The network will maintain regular meetings, promote research on gender and media and work on exchanging opinions, tools and studies.
- Project: Changing gender images in the Jordanian media
Project Partner: Women for Cultural Development (Namaa)
Date & Place: April – October 2006, Amman/Jordan
Namaa will target Jordanian media experts and journalists in different media to improve their knowledge of women’s rights, different gender roles, bridging gender gaps, analysis of gender images and the way they are received by the audience. The goals of this project are to develop media practices that are supportive for women’s rights and gender equality and to encourage journalists to challenge the stereotype images of women’s roles in the media. Five 5-day training sessions will be held and the journalists will be encouraged to change the traditional way of covering women’s issues into a more open and human rights based form. They will also be supported in forming an informal network which will concentrate on and tackle women’s issues in a systematic way. The target group includes Jordanian journalists working in press, radio and TV, media students in Jordanian universities and academics in media departments in Jordanian universities.
- Project: Campaigning for a family protection law
Project Partner: Women Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC)
Date & Place: April 2006– March 2007, Ramallah/ Palestine
The Palestinian community has an urgent need for special mechanisms and procedures to protect the family, particularly at the current stage of development that will elevate the level of human rights for Palestinians in line with international human rights agreements and covenants. After a revision of the social and legal framework of domestic violence and the gaps still existing in dealing with this issue on the different levels, SALMA (a group of organizations operating in the field of fighting domestic violence in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt) has had a role by collectively working on the idea of family protection by proposing a law in the above mentioned countries. In the last few months, WCLAC has drafted a law with the help of a legal advisor and experienced staff members. The draft law has been completed and will now be taken to the next stage for advocacy and networking, campaigning for its importance and adoption by legislators. This is the focus of this project.
- Project: Printing messages against violence
Project Partner: hbf/AMEO
Date & Place: May-June 2006, Ramallah- Palestine
The booklet which contains the best practices and experience of the "Salma" project partners was printed and distributed to the partner organizations and different women and human rights organizations. It facilitates exchange of experience and learning lessons.
- Project: Conference: Gender Responsive Budgets: Challenges, Experience and Potential in the Arab Countries
Project Partner: United Nations University / International Leadership Institute
Date & Place: 17- 19 December 2006, Amman- Jordan
The 3-days-conference will look at Gender Responsive Budgets from a multi-stakeholder approach and intends to gather government representatives, members of parliaments, of governmental women’s and of budget commissions, representatives of public audit institutions, local authorities, CSO, women’s NGOs, researchers, national statistics and data collection institutes and international experts. It will start with presentations on activities and experiences made in countries inside and outside the region. Discussions on good practices and lessons learned will follow. Workshops and working groups will focus on practical problems, applied research and the problems of transferring experience from other regions to Arab countries.
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