Focus on Lebanon | Project Overview & Respondent Demographics
Project Background
- The Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (SWMENA) is a gender-focused research project that evaluates the status of women in three countries: Lebanon, Morocco, and Yemen
- SWMENA is a project by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Project Goal
- Improve the status of women in the broader MENA region by strengthening local NGO capacity to effectively advocate on behalf of women
- Train local NGOs on using solid data in their advocacy efforts and employ better strategies in approaching members of parliament, other governing bodies and the press about policy recommendations
- Build local data collection and analysis capacity
Project Methodology
- Evaluate existing data on women, identify gaps, and design national surveys to capture needed data
- Survey questionnaires include a core section that is standard across the three countries and a distinct country module that deals with country-specific gender issues
- After data collection in all three countries, composite social indices will be created to summarize key themes and allow comparisons across regions / communities within country and between countries
Project Research Areas
- Political & civic participation; Economic participation & well-being
- Social attitudes towards women’s roles, violence, reforming laws
- Social autonomy (access to education, role in household decision-making, control over household resources)
- Health & education
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