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Infographics Help Advocacy Efforts for Women

IFES will bring together women’s advocates from Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen for a training on how to use and easily display data released through our Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (SWMENA) project surveys.
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New Challenges, Opportunities for Women’s Political Participation in the Middle East

IFES Senior Research Specialist Rola Abdul-Latif and Deputy Director for Europe and Asia Vasu Mohan shed light on some of the challenges and opportunities facing women in the region during InterAction’s Forum 2011 on Aug. 12 in Washington.
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Yemenis girls. Terry Rogers/IFES

Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa

IFES and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) have united their years of experience in research and capacity building to enhance the status of women in the Middle East and North Africa. Through comparative and country‐specific surveys, the project measures how women in Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen see themselves as members of society, the economy and the polity. Using the information obtained from the surveys, the project seeks to build capacity of local NGOs seeking to improve women’s well‐being by providing them with tools to develop policy recommendations and skills for working on advocacy campaigns.
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Features

IFES, in conjunction with its partner, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), kicked off the Status of Women project in Beirut, Lebanon, in May 2009 with a Regional Indicator Working Group Meeting. IFES gathered experts in women’s issues from Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen to discuss gaps in existing data in their respective countries and to assist IFES in shaping survey questionnaires to most adequately address the needs of women’s advocates.

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Morocco: In Focus

Following the input received from women’s advocates in the May 2009 Indicator Working Group Meeting held in Beirut, Lebanon, and the subsequent NGO workshop held in Rabat, IFES and its partner organization, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finalized the Morocco questionnaire. IFES contracted the local survey firm LMS-CSA to carry out the survey. LMS concluded field work in Morocco in January 2010, marking the successful completion of the second survey for the SWMENA project.

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Yemen: In Focus

Following the input received from women’s advocates in the Indicator Working Group Meeting held in Beirut, Lebanon, in May 2009 and subsequent meetings with women’s leaders and NGOs in Sana’a, IFES and its partner organization, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finalized the Yemen questionnaire. IFES contracted the local survey firm Yemen Polling Center (YPC) to carry out the survey. YPC conducted fieldwork in Yemen in July 2010, marking the completion of the final survey for the SWMENA project.

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IFES and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) have united their years of experience in research and capacity building to enhance the status of women in the Middle East and North Africa. Through comparative and country‐specific surveys, the project measures how women in Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen see themselves as members of society, the economy and the polity. Using the information obtained from the surveys, the project seeks to build capacity of local NGOs seeking to improve women’s well‐being by providing them with tools to develop policy recommendations and skills for working on advocacy campaigns.

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