YWCA Palestine concludes a training on monitoring and documenting gender-based violations

Jericho-YWCA Palestine concluded a training course on monitoring and documenting gender-based violations to support advocacy issues at national, regional and international levels as part of the Young Women's Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability Programme (YW4A).

Staff and members from local partner institutions and young women's reference group participated in the three-day course, which was led by monitoring and documentation specialist Alaa Badarneh. The goal was to increase the participants' capacity to effectively and persuasively advocate for women's issues while also enhancing the capacity of partner institutions to monitor and document violations and incorporate this information into global advocacy strategies.

The YW4A is one of YWCA Palestine's strategic programs, implemented in collaboration with a number of local, regional, and international partners.

YW4A’s strategic objective is to defend and expand the fulfilment of young women’s rights to dignity, bodily integrity, and equal participation in decision-making, through the implementation of gender-just policies and laws.

YWCA Palestine implements (YW4A) programme, in cooperation with the East Jerusalem YWCA, the Psychosocial Counseling Center for Women (PSCCW), Al-Harah Theatre, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.

YW4A is a five-year program, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and led by consortium partner World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA), working in collaboration with YWCA Kenya, YWCA Palestine, Christian Agency For Peace And Development (CAPaD)- South Sudan, and Ibrahimia Media Center (IMC), Equality Now, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, and Faith to Action Network (F2A).