Family plays a crucial role in fostering female leadership in the Arab world, providing emotional, financial, and psychological support that enables young women to navigate societal challenges and pursue leadership roles.

Acting as the primary support system, families shield young women from community judgment and foster environments fertile for success. This support is crucial in societies where traditional norms might sometimes limit women’s opportunities in the public sphere.

While Family support is integral to the leadership development of young women, the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) within the “She Leads” program conducted an action research that highlights the role of families in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt in shaping females leadership.

The report aims to provide insights and recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders on how families can contribute to and support young women's leadership and to Inform policymakers and stakeholders on enablers of and barriers to women's leadership in society, in addition to understand how shifts in social dynamics and regional trends influence leadership roles for girls and young women in Jordan Lebanon, and Egypt.

The report also provides several recommendations to family support for Women’s public engagement, paving the way to young women’s leadership, in education, and intergenerational exchange.

“She Leads” project, is a joint program of Plan International Netherlands, Defense for Children - ECPAT Netherlands (DCI-ECPAT), African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), and Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH) targeting social norms in formal and informal institutions in East Africa (Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya), West Africa (Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia) and the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt).