CEWLA - Women's Legal Rights and Gender Equality
Description What is done in the programme or project and why, what results are pursued, who benefits from the activities and who are involved in the implementation.
The overall objective of the project: end the discrimination against women within the different laws, especially within the personal status law. Specific objectives: 1- Activating the articles of the new constitution that are related to protecting women and combating discrimination against them. 2- Increasing awareness about the negative impacts of discrimination against women and its role in the continuity of violence against them. 3- Offering direct support for abused women and the affected cases by the discriminatory laws against women. Project purpose: capacities building for 60 clergymen and media men to combat and change the discriminatory law against women and achieve gender equality - reaching to proposals for legal provisions for gender equality within the penal code -spreading the awareness among 2000 people around the discriminatory laws and its impact on the continuity of violence against women - Directly supporting 450 of the target groups through extracting 400 official papers and providing civic services for them and filing 50 lawsuits .
Objectives monitored by OECD's Development Assistance Committee The OECD Development Assistance Committee monitors the use of development cooperation appropriations and has defined development objectives. The attainment of these objectives is followed by collecting information. A programme or a project may also have objectives that are not included in the objectives monitored by the Committee and that are not listed here.
- Gender equality
- Participatory development/Good governance
Field of activity The field of activity defines in which field of activity a programme or a project is implemented. A programme or a project may also operate in more than one field of activity.
- Women’s equality organisations and institutions 50%
- Human rights 50%
Funding channel Funding for the activities of a programme or a project is channelled through a funding channel. In development cooperation projects, the funding channel may be, for instance, an organisation that implements the project in full or in part, or the Embassy of Finland in the target country that channels the funds to a local organisation implementing the project.
Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance
Contact Additional information about a programme or a project is provided by the relevant unit at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Code for the object of funding The ID code of a programme or a project in the Ministry’s case management system.
14208029
ID The ID code of a programme or a project in the Ministry’s case management system.
UHA2015-001492
Modified The date when the information was last revised.
2017-10-17 00:00:00.0