WCLAC Conflict Fragility 2019-2020 Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling has extensive experience providing social and legal services to women victims of violence and undertaking awareness, advocacy and legal reform that ensure gender equality; Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling expertise will be harnessed under this project through contributing to holding the Palestinian Authority and Israel accountable and advocates for meaningful inclusion, and protection, of women in gender sensitive peace and security processes, and that Palestinian women, men, boys and girls are protected from gender based violence by the Palestinian Authority. As such, during the course of action,Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling  devoted itself under phase 2 to follow-up on recommendations issued by CEDAW committeeto Palestinian government to amend/enact laws that conform to International Conventions Palestine acceded to without reservations ;especially  to continue advocacy and influencing efforts to pursue the Palestinian government to carry out relevant legal reform toend discrimination againstwomen. They will mainly focus on enactment of the Personal Status Law, which was one of the concluding remarks of CEDAW Committee. To realize this end, they will work on reviving the National Coalition on Personal Status Law that should work to ensure having a Personal Status Law that complies with international conventions Palestine acceded to; especially CEDAW. Additionally, WCLAC will launch a media campaign using different media outlets; especially social media to disseminate messages to the generalpublic on significance of having an equitable personal status law. Coupled with carrying out  round table discussion with policy and decision makers to present recommendations of the National Coalition on Personal Status Law. Likewise, they will develop CEDAW shadow report to present steps taken by Palestinian Authority to implement CEDAW committee recommendations where the committee requested the PA to provide written information on steps takento implement recommendations submitted by the committee. On the other hand, WCLAC will continue its work to reinforce collective efforts to combat GBV at local level, building on its previous experience of local protection networks that contribute to reinforcing the Referral System between service providers. They will establish a fifth protection network in Nablus Governorate. Ongoing support will be provided to members of the networks through supervision and coaching sessions to provide them with technical skills to define and monitor different forms of violencein their communities; especially GBV and refer cases.
they will be working to localize the 1325 resolution and women peace and security agenda through mobilizing young males and females to carryout influencing activities in their communities investingin volunteers to promote young people role in maintaining peace and security. Lastly, they will work on rallying international support for Palestinian women among governments, parliaments and civilsociety. This will be done through the production of documentation of human rights violations of Palestinian women to develop reports to be submitted to UN bodies such as  UN Special Rapporteurs. Additionally they will disseminate women#s voices in international platforms including Human Rights Council andEUcountries and facilitate stronger international support for Palestinian women among governments, EU countries representatives and diplomatic missions to inform them about the violations that the Israeli occupation is committing against Palestinians with specific focus on women.