AGEEEL: Advocacy for Gender Equitable Economic Engagement in Lebanon - Overcoming Marginalization of Women

Key words:

Gender equitable economic engagement ...marginalized women
rural and urban Lebanese women and refugee women

Project Objectives:

The project has three objectives:
(1) Increase public awareness on gender equitable economic engagement of marginalized women as a vehicle to sustainable development in Lebanon,
(2) Enhance capacities of  targeted marginalized rural and urban Lebanese women and refugee women relating to their agency - through leadership skills, within the human rights, and gender equality framework, ;  
(3) Enhance the body of knowledge on gender equitable economic engagement in Lebanon through research – focusing on women's economic rights in Lebanon and the ways these are affected by social and economic policies as well as by political and cultural processes.

Project Duration:

Two years July 2018 to June 2020

Target groups:

•    Marginalized rural women
•    Marginalized urban women
•    Women and girls refugees internally displaced and asylum seekers

Project Activities:

•    Capacity Building –grassroots leadership workshops, training of trainers leadership workshops, media advocacy workshops, training of trainers in media advocacy
•    Knowledge Generation: research on marginalized women’s work
•    Advocacy – advocacy campaign on gender equitable economic engagement in Lebanon.