YWCA Palestine Participates in YW4A Advocacy Training in Jordan
The YWCA Palestine took part in a regional training workshop within the Young Women’s Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability Project YW4A, which was held in Dead Sea, Jordan from 29thof May till the 1stof June 2023.
The training focused on digital Advocacy in the field of Public Advocacy and legal advocacy in cooperation with the project partners in Egypt and under the supervision of Equality Now, within the Fourth Thematic area of the project, which works to support lobbying and advocacy campaigns within the framework of legal advocacy towards adopting, amending or repealing laws and policies in order to enhance the rights of youth women to lead, participate and end sexual and gender based violence.
YW4A is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is being implemented over the period of five years, 2021 – 2025, in Egypt, Palestine, South-Sudan and Kenya. It aims to contribute to eliminating gender-based violence, and achieving gender equality as well as raise the voices of young women, and promote their participation in decision-making.