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Participants at the Participatory Workshop on Developing the Implementation Plan of the National Strategy for Women in Jordan (2020-2025) for the WEPs signatories. Photo Courtesy of Grand Hyatt.
Participatory Workshop on Developing the Implementation Plan of the National Strategy for Women in Jordan (2020-2025) For Private sector signatory companies on the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs)
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The Jordan National Commission for Women (JNCW), in cooperation with UN Women, held a participatory workshop with 25 private sector companies that are signatories to the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), believing in the importance of public-private partnership in promoting national economic growth by enabling women ...
Youth from different cities in Jordan participate in an advocacy campaign on gender and gender roles hosted by Generations For Peace in partnership with UN Women Jordan in September 2019. Photo: Generations for Peace/Ahmad Albakri
Empowering women and girls in Jordan to build more peaceful and inclusive societies
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With support from UN Women and funding from the European Union, in Jordan, young women are working to build more inclusive, peaceful and cohesive societies where gender-specific needs are met, and women and youth lead in addressing violent extremism.
A Syrian mother prepares her child for school before going to work at the ‘Women and Girls Oasis’ programme. (UN Women/Christopher Herwig)
Cash-for-work programme empowers Syrian refugees
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More than 5,000 Syrian women and girls visit ‘Oases’ safe spaces in the Za’atari camp per month, and several hundred have independently earned incomes through UN Women’s work programme in Jordan.
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