Project Description: 

The project targeted women, with a focus on women with disabilities in Hebron, focusing on Area C and H2 communities. The project aimed at promoting WWDs resilience by directly targeting CBOs serving this group. The project has contributed to enabling CBOs and women with disabilities to become agents of positive change for the group they represent by promoting their awareness and their capacity to enable them deliver a needs assessment study on the reality of women with disabilities in the targeted locations as well as their needs. Also, the project has contributed to enhancing WWDs’ mental health and well-being in addition to facilitating their access to employment.

Objective:     

Contribute to creating inclusive spaces for WWDs to effectively participate in decision-making processes pertinent to their social and economic rights and increase their resilience. 

Key results         

Under specific objective 1: Enhance Women CBOs’ organizational competencies and promote awareness of right holders to mainstream social and economic rights and needs of WWDs in local policies, programs and interventions

  • The project reached and addressed 10 Grass-root CBOs and 30 Right-Holder women community members in marginalized communities. 
  • The project contributed to promoting awareness of 30 WWDs and 10 CBOs’ on international and national disability and gender instruments, disability inclusion. 
  • Technical and organizational Capabilities and Competencies of 20 CBOs’ staff and 40 WWDs, in advocacy and disability inclusion, are upgraded
  • 10 representatives of CBOs 20 right holders and advocates are actively engaged in conducting a participatory study on the accessibility of WWDs to economic, social and political rights in Hebron. 
  • 10 Women CBOs and 30 WWDs Influencing decision-making pertinent to socio-economic rights. 

Under specific objective 2: Address PSS needs of Vulnerable Women and Facilitate their Accessibility to employment to Enhance their Resilience 

  • PSS needs of 90 women are addressed and the accessibility to the employment of 50 women is facilitated.