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أخبارناEnding Violence Against Girls and Women

Empowering Women and Girls to Combat Gender Based Violence in Ezbet Wehda El-Wataniyya

In February 2024, Tadwein Center for Gender Studies launched a new project to combat gender-based violence in Ezbet Wahda Wataniyya in ​​Zahraa El Maadi. 

Project objectives:

  • Provide information about and tools to respond to gender based violence for survivors and those most at risk for gender-based violence: women and girls.
  • Develop the capacity of local community based organizations to support women and girls and create larger changes in the community
  • Raise awareness of gender-based violence among the broader community and particularly men and boys.

Project activities:

  • Creating and meeting with a community committee from the area to learn about their needs and to discuss the form and substance of the project
  • Training with the community committee about gender-based violence and its prevalence 
  • Developing “community champions” or members of the community enthusiastic about learning more about gender-based violence and enhancing their communications skills and enhancing their leadership skills
  • Conducting a knowledge, attitudes, and practices to understand gender-based violence in Ezbet Wahda Wataniyya in coordination with the community champions who were trained in data collection and used this to communicate with a sample of 300 people in the area
  • Designing a map of community services and resources available in the area
  • Hosting two health caravans that served 420 children, women, and men that saw to a number of different health 
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Strengthening Refugee and Immigrant Women and Girls’ Safety Project

Tadwein Center for Gender Studies implemented an evidence-based pilot project titled “Strengthening Refugee and Immigrant Women and Girls’ Safety”. The project was implemented from October 2023 to January 2024 in 4 host communities in three areas in Greater Cairo (Haram, Fisal, and 6th of October). The main goal of the project is to address gender disparities and empower both refugee and host communities, thereby reducing vulnerabilities to Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

The project involved a multifaceted intervention, including GBV awareness sessions, psychosocial support, community organizations and community champions capacity building sessions, health caravans, and development and distribution of educational materials (booklets and copybooks) on early marriage and Female Genital Mutilations (FGM) and school bags.

Project Results

  • Capacity of 15 Community Champions from the target community were developed. Trainings were held on leadership, GBV and psychosocial support and others on communication skills for behavioral and social change.
  • 80 GBV Awareness Sessions reaching 2000 community members (mainly refugees from Sudan, Syria and Yemen) were conducted.
  • Five health caravans targeting 1.500 women, men, and children were conducted in the target communities. The caravan included diverse activities such as awareness sessions, public lectures, children’s activities, medical examinations, an MOH mobile clinic, and a bazaar.
  • Educational Material has been developed: Two educational booklets, titled “I am still a child” and “FGM is a crime”, and 10 copybooks on FGM and Child Marriage were developed and around 36,000 copies of them were distributed to targeted community members, along with 6000 school bags.
  • Audio-visual production: Over the course of the project, a documentary film was developed featuring the journey of one of the project’s community champions. Another animated film was developed, narrating a GBV-incident experienced by one of the project’s beneficiaries in Sudan during the conflict.
  • Social Media Campaigns: Two impactful social media campaigns were developed and shared on Tadwein’s social media platforms. The campaigns aimed at introducing the project’s approach, activities and messages to a wider audience while highlighting the hardships faced by Sudanese refugees in Egypt and well as issues of GBV which they faced during the conflict and/or during their journey from Sudan to Egypt.

 

“The Feminist Fabric” Project

In 2023, Tadwein for Gender Studies launched a new project titled “Feminist Fabric”. The project aims to combat GBV in Egypt through the establishment of a network of feminist initiatives from 8 Egyptian Governorates. Through this project, Tadwein for Gender Studies aspires to enhance the capacities and skills of these feminists’ initiatives, provide technical support to these initiatives to be able to strategically address the issue of GBV in their respective governorates, and mobilize resources and efforts for policy changes at the local level. To be able to achieve these objectives, the feminist initiatives were trained in Strategic Planning, Proposals Writing, and Digital Security.

Activities of this project specifically included:

  1. Strategic Planning Training
  2. Proposal writing training
  3. Digital Security Training
  4. Digital Media Training
  5. Assessing the needs of feminist initiatives
  6. Field Visits
  7. Round Table Discussion
  8. Advocacy Campaigns
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El-Madrasa

Tadwein for Gender Studies is currently implementing a two-year project titled “El-Madrasa” (2021-2023). The project aims to create an active social movement to end broad societal acceptance of the various forms of violence against women, through the establishment of networks of young women and men in various Egyptian governorates. The project targeted different segments of society, with a special focus on young people. Several activities were conducted as part of this project.

Activities of this project specifically included:

  1. Development of an online platform
  2. Technical Consultative Meetings
  3. First Meetings with El-Madrasa participants
  4. Second Meetings with El-Madrasa participants
  5. Development of an online training course
  6. Media Campaigns
  7. Development and printing of communication materials
  8. Dissemination Conference
Harmful Traditional Practices

The Impact of Child Marriage on Young Egyptian Girls

Tadwein has worked on this project from mid-2019 to mid-2020. Tadwein is implementing this project to raise awareness about the harmful impacts of early/child marriage on the lives of women in urban greater Cairo and rural areas in Fayoum.

Women, Media and Technology

Basis and Principles of Gender Sensitive Journalism

Tadwein for Gender Studies in collaboration has organized a series of training workshops with the aim of raising the awareness of journalists and media personnel about gender-sensitive press coverage. Roundtable discussions were also conducted with journalists to discuss issues such as sexual harassment in the workplace.

Gender Sensitization among Young People in Egypt

In an attempt to contribute to the efforts on eliminating gender-based violence in Egypt, Tadwein for Gender Studies implemented a 2 phased project targeting 9 governorates. The project aimed to sensitize young adolescents in targeted governorates about the concept of gender and gender related issues.

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Gender Representation in Egyptian Drama (Mirayat)

Tadwein conducted a research project that aims to examine and analyze gendered images in Egyptian drama and their effects in shaping and reinforcing gender stereotypes and discourses. This project was a collaborative work with Herdo organization and W laha Wogouh Okhra online platform.

Violence among the Youth in Urban Poor Greater Cairo

This research project aims to study violence among young people in urban poor Greater Cairo. The objectives of the study were to identify different forms of violence, determinants and consequences of violence on young people, and the different tactics young people developed to resist violence. The study was conducted in 22 poor areas within greater Cairo and targeted young people between the ages of 18 and 35 years. The findings of the study contributed to the development of several policy papers and IEC materials. A dissemination event was coordinated to display the results related to the issue of female genital mutilation in Egypt.

Women, Media and Technology

Digital Security Training

In 2017, Tadwein for Gender Studies in collaboration conducted a series of training workshops to promote women’s and girls’ digital security. These trainings targeted 150 female survivors of violence, journalists, and female activists in 15 Egyptian governorates. Tadwein’s manual on digital security was used in delivering these
The project activities included training for 150 women in 15 Egyptian governorates utilizing the training manual that Tadwein developed on methods of digital security.