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Youth and women are drivers of change in the Arab world, leading community-based interventions, integrating new technologies in the economy, building a sustainable future, and consolidating democratic processes. This is done despite the regional context marked by various conflicts and crises, increasing economic stagnation, and social discontent, which are particularly affecting these segments of the population.

The Renaissance Strategic Center’s research agenda on Women and Youth Empowerment aims to frame the main policies on women and youth-related areas in development and humanitarian action, identify processes that are driving change in the region, shed light on leading experiences, and provide opportunities that will support the upscaling of youth and women-led actions. The results of the research and its related processes will strengthen agency for women, girls, and youth, and help their voices to be heard.

ARDD launched the Al Nahda Youth Network on August 12, 2020, the International Youth Day. The network functions as an umbrella for organizing youth efforts and programming based on the Renaissance project and literature.

Al Nahda Women’s Network works under ARDD´s umbrella, which includes women from different sectors, who work to support each other and promote their success in various fields.

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Hybrid Regional Roundtable and Action Research Launch of Report on Raising Tomorrow’s Women leaders in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt, and the Role of Family and Society in their Advancement

To initiate a regional dialogue on women's leadership and the role of family and society in its advancement, and to launch the research report "Raising Tomorrow’s Leaders: The Role of Family and Societal Norms in Shaping Young Women Leadership in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt"

Participants praise the role of organizations led by youth and women in southern Jordan to promote community cohesion and activate the localization of Resolution 1325

Eleonora Banfi, Director of Al-Nahda Thought Center for Women’s Studies at ARDD, reviewed the preliminary results of the study conducted by the Institute to look into the role of organizations led by youth and women in the south of Jordan to promote community cohesion, in line with the principles of the Women, Security, and Peace Agenda and the Jordanian National Plan to activate Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Security, and Peace (JONAP).

ARDD in collaboration with Tawazon Unveils the findings of the Women’s Leadership Needs Assessment in the Kingdom

The workshop participants emphasized the importance of male engagement in women leadership training programs at a later stage. They stressed the need of ensuring a safe environment for women, enhancing their skills and tools, and integrating efforts of all the relevant institutes that support women leadership. Additionally, they highlighted the need to find solutions to issues such as early retirement for women, the inclusion of women with disabilities in the workplace, and the promotion of women’s leadership in non-traditional sectors. Furthermore, the participants discussed the challenge of replicating training approaches in leadership programs, and the need to identifying the customized requirements and skills to advance and assist women in expressing their communities needs to decision-makers, throughout the kingdom, including marginalized areas.

To Influence Change: Initiative to Strengthen Civic Engagement and Social Protection Frameworks between Women and Men

The trainees launched the “Together to Promote Justice towards Real Civic Participation: United for Change” initiative, with the aim of connecting with the local community and raising awareness among women about the importance of community participation, which was achieved through interactive discussions and illustrative examples to improve women’s understanding of social reality and civic engagement.

Activists and human rights activists stress in ARDD’s symposium the importance of women’s civil, political and economic participation and expanding leadership opportunities for them

In accordance with this goal, the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) and the Terre des Hommes organization held a regional digital seminar on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, entitled: “Challenges and Solutions Towards Strengthening Women’s Leadership”, to support participants in understanding their leadership roles by discussing the tools, skills, current challenges, and basic knowledge that women need for leadership, and to inspire them to take leadership paths through the examples and stories shared by the speakers who hold leadership positions in various fields, to serve as role models for them, within the framework of the She Leads program.

Women’s Leadership.. a Participatory and Collaborative Approach

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