Palestinian National Authority
Ministry of Women Affairs
Palestine
15 August,2010 - 26 September,2010

Done by: Tana Imseeh
Director of the Deputy Minister Office
2009/2010

1. Basic Information of Palestin
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GeographicLocation:
Palestine lies on the south west of Asia on the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea,Eastern shore.
 It lies in the heart of the so called ancient world, namely, Asia, Africa and Europe
Demography:
 Capital: Jerusalem/ Holy Land
 Language: Arabic
 Population: 10.9 M
2.5m lives in the West bank
1.5m in Gaza strip and the remaining in refugee camps mainly Lebanon, Syria andJordan (3 M) and other countries
 Religion: Islam, Christianity 1%
 Currency : shekel

21. Basic Information of Palestine Political Capital of palestinian National Authority:
Ramallah Flag:3

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Map of PalestineAL

ESTINE
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Impressive Old Pictures

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PALESTINE'S HOLY SITES

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Palestinian society: Economy,Culture, Traditions

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Pictures representing our culture andtraditions

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Local Palestinian Industry

9Palestinian Leaders
Current PalestinianPresident
Mr. Mahmood Abbass

leading figure in thePalestinian fight for statehood
Yasser Arafat (1929 - 2004)10

Palestinian Women leaders
Revolutionary Council Member
Deputy Minister
Mrs. Salwa Hdeeb

Dr. Hannan Ashrawi
Executive Committee Member

11The Palestinian poet and writer
Mahmoud Darwish, like that of many
Palestinian writers and artists, is highly
political and deals with the Israeli
occupation (1941-2008 )One of the greatest Palestinian
fiction writers is Ghassan Kanafani,whose short stories in All That
Remains: Palestine's Children
depicts the aimlessness anddesperation of Palestinian refugees(1936-1972 )12

Ministry of Women’s AffairsMOWA’s Deputy
Mrs Salwa Hdeib/Qannam

MOWA’s Current Minister
Mrs. Rabiha Diab13

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Challenges
Challenges that face MoWA in achieving gendermainstreaming summarized:

Local culture and norms that limit the woman's role to thehousehold The paralysis of the PLC that hinders any efforts toamend, draft or endorse laws.
 The Israeli occupation measures that enhance violence,increase economic depression, hinder access to services
like education and health, and increase frustration
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4. Major National Policies/ Plans
MOWA aims achieving several strategic objectives
during the upcoming three years( 2009-2011)_First Objective:
To improve women’s involvement and participation indecision making and policy formulation
Second objective:
To increase women economic participation and combat
poverty amongst women.
Third Objective:
To combat and curtail Violence against women(VAW).
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Job description

 Collecting and documenting all data ,studies and literatures thatare related to women's issues.
 Organizing and facilitating training workshops & seminars.
 Organizing and coordinating for meetings.
 Preparing and writing reports and action plans.
 Participating in various training courses related to gender issues.
 Manage the relationships; build a bridge of coordination, andcommunications with other departments in the Palestinian
Ministry of Women’s Affairs.

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Job description…. continue As a director in the Palestinian Ministry of Women's Affairs, thejob description requires the knowledge of gender related
mainstreaming, gender relations, communications skills, andcoordination skills with the various departments internally (genderunits department, policies and planning department, Media andadvocacy department) as well as external relation withgovernmental and non- governmental organizations including civilsociety associations, and women organizations. Moreover,
empowering interpersonal skills through regional andinternational relations, will add new knowledge in determine
where to mainstream in the workplace. Exchanging experience andknowledge through having this training course will support
achieving more skills; perceptions that seem benefit MOWA’s
mission and goals.
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6. Issue(s) to be addressed in mainstreaming gender Raising awareness on gender issues for male andfemale in governmental officers.

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7. Justification for choosing the above issues
 Despite the low participation of women in senior
governmental positions in Palestinian ministries,
women remain do not have the authority to makedecisions since most of the decisions in higher levels
are limited and taken by men.

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8. Useful knowledge and skills gained through thisprogram in order to take action against the above
issue(s): This program has been developed my skills andknowledge in analyzing micro-projects, problems
and objectives, as well as providing creative ideasthat support the development of our goals and plans,since we are looking forward to establish the future
independent Palestinian state that invests andbenefit actively and efficiently from thecontributions, capacities and skills of both its maleand female citizens

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Action PlanProject title
Sensitize on gender mainstreaming for government
officer
Project period: by the end of year 201122

Target area
20 Palestinian National Authority
Ministries

Target Beneficiaries
20 women officer and 20 men officer

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Implementing Agency
Ministry of Women’s Affairs

24Overall Goal
Palestinian women’s lives improve by gendersensitive policies and projects.

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Project purpose Government officers are able to mainstream genderissues in policies and projects
 To develop new action plans that support
mainstreaming gender issues in policies andprojects.

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Activities
 To conduct meeting with high level ministries
officers.
 To Conduct training and workshops.

27Outputs 20 women and 20 men government officers aretrained on gender.
 20 women and 20 men officers are aware genderissues in policies.
 Policies and plans are revised.

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ありがとうThank you