Building confidence among women in Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia
An UNDEF-funded project works in Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt to strengthen the role of women in society, particularly in remote and underprivileged areas. At a project session in January 2014 al-Mafraq, on Jordan's border with Syria, locals concentrated on violence against women. They chose to focus the discussions on men and recruited leading figures from the mosque, the education sector and the local newspaper to lead the discussions. Participants spontaneously signed the project poster as a project commitment. UNDEF Executive Head Roland Rich visited the al-Mafraq session and met with Mona Al-Alami, Executive Director Jordan Center for Civic Education, as well as the men who served as session's discussion leaders.
