FLC: EJ YMCA RP - Phase II Empowering Young Palestinian Women with Disabilities to access their Social and Economic Rights - 2 years The proposed project will address and tackle the socio-economic marginalization of the most vulnerable Palestinian Young Women with Disabilities (YWWD) living in the West Bank districts with a special focus on remote and marginalized areas including area C
. The project will be implemented through a holistic psycho-social and economic development approach to provide the targeted group with empowerment and inclusion services to sustainably improve their livelihoods promote their access to social services and 
social protection in an integrated framework Leads to developing hopeful approach towards life. The project is intended to build the capacities of young Palestinian women with disabilities to become self advocates to their rights to influence attitudes pra
ctices and decision making processes in local and national government. Further to build their vocational capacities to be able to participate effectively in the job market. In Addition to these interventions that are dedicated to empower YWWD at the psycho
-social and economic levels it is intended to raise societal awareness on the rights of YWWD especially their rights to decent work and to increase societal sensitization against all kinds of violence toward YWWD.As a result this proposed project is seen a
s a continuation to the previous one and it will continue to address the human educational economic and social rights of young women with disabilities with disabilities. The project will follow a twin track approach to development and disability. On one ha
nd it will work on empowering YWWD through building their vocational educational and technical capacities. This is done through increasing YWWD access to livelihood and social activities education and health care. On the other hand it will work on mainstre
aming disability in the Palestinian society with a special focus on the rights of YWWD to decent work and on increasing societal sensitivity on gender based violence against women with disabilities. To achieve this the project will work on building the cap
acity of Women with Disabilities to protect the rights of women living with disabilities and to call for effective implementation of the National Disability Strategy (NDS) and ensure that it will not lose its momentum with a specific focus on Strategic App
roach 3 4 and 6 of the National Strategic Plan of the Disability Sector in the OPT 2012. The proposed project will address and tackle the socio-economic marginalization of the most vulnerable Palestinian Young Women with Disabilities (YWWD) living in the West Bank districts with a special focus on remote and marginalized areas including area C
. The project will be implemented through a holistic psycho-social and economic development approach to provide the targeted group with empowerment and inclusion services to sustainably improve their livelihoods promote their access to social services and 
social protection in an integrated framework Leads to developing hopeful approach towards life. The project is intended to build the capacities of young Palestinian women with disabilities to become self advocates to their rights to influence attitudes pra
ctices and decision making processes in local and national government. Further to build their vocational capacities to be able to participate effectively in the job market. In Addition to these interventions that are dedicated to empower YWWD at the psycho
-social and economic levels it is intended to raise societal awareness on the rights of YWWD especially their rights to decent work and to increase societal sensitization against all kinds of violence toward YWWD.As a result this proposed project is seen a
s a continuation to the previous one and it will continue to address the human educational economic and social rights of young women with disabilities with disabilities. The project will follow a twin track approach to development and disability. On one ha
nd it will work on empowering YWWD through building their vocational educational and technical capacities. This is done through increasing YWWD access to livelihood and social activities education and health care. On the other hand it will work on mainstre
aming disability in the Palestinian society with a special focus on the rights of YWWD to decent work and on increasing societal sensitivity on gender based violence against women with disabilities. To achieve this the project will work on building the cap
acity of Women with Disabilities to protect the rights of women living with disabilities and to call for effective implementation of the National Disability Strategy (NDS) and ensure that it will not lose its momentum with a specific focus on Strategic App
roach 3 4 and 6 of the ?National Strategic Plan of the Disability Sector in the OPT 2012?.