Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Project
The People for Development Organization (PDO) implemented this project in
cooperation with Al-Masalla Organization and funded by the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA). The project targets those who are subjected to
violence because of sexual differences, and in light of the social conditions
that Iraq and the Kurdistan Region are going through, girls and women have
become victims of discrimination on the basis of gender, which made them a
target of the project.
The Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Project has worked on several
levels to achieve its objectives, including the protection, development and
empowerment of women.
The project benefited 27,541 people from the camps of Arbat, Rania and Kalar
districts in Sulaymaniyah governorate, in addition to the center of Halabja
governorate and Jalawla district in Diyala governorate, with 62 personnel
working within the project: 42 of them were contracted and the remaining 16
were volunteers.
The project’s mobile teams in various regions provided psychosocial and legal
services to 1145 women, and social and psychological support to 1188 women,
in addition to providing the Dignity Bag to 6363 girls and women.
As part of the project’s activities, and by holding seminars and cultural activities,
the project worked on raising awareness among women and girls, where 796
adolescent girls between the ages of 10-18 participated and benefited, as a
special United Nations program was clarified.
In order to make women aware of the objectives of the project, 18,000 brochures
were distributed among them, in addition to two special training courses to
raise the standards of 30 female psychologists and social workers.The project’s message reached more than 1900 men directly, through
seminars and distribution of brochures to strengthen them economically and
professionally, to qualify 314 women, in addition to many other activities such
as building government centers in the field and providing them with supplies.