Project profile — Women's Voice and Leadership - Morocco

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. This project is being implemented by Oxfam-Québec. Its objective is to strengthen the capacities and support the activities of local women's rights organizations in Morocco. It's objective is to empower women and girls, preserve their rights and achieve gender equality in their societies. More than 70 organizations benefit from the support of this project. It is expected that approximately 1,000 people directly benefit from the project activities, and that 5,000 people, including approximately 3,250 women and 1,750 men, are reached by awareness campaigns.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved management and sustainability of local or regional women’s rights organizations in Morocco; (2) enhanced performance of women’s rights organizations’ programming and advocacy to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; and (3) increased effectiveness of sub-national and national or regional women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change in Morocco.

Results achieved at the end of the project (September 2024) include: (1) 90% of women's rights organizations (WRO) adopted improved management and governance practices; (2) supported 15 social and technological innovation initiatives. 87.5% of them are effectively used or disseminated by the WROs; (3) influenced 3 frameworks or public policies through advocacy and awareness-raising actions carried out as part of the project; (4) supported the participation of at least 50 people in the 2 innovation events, including 38 women (76%); (5) implemented digital awareness campaign, including the production of podcasts recounting women's journeys and the creation of video clips highlighting 3 women's cooperatives; (6) provided medical support and psychological assistance to 20 single pregnant women, recovering, or victims of violence during the pandemic; and (7) raised the awareness of 18 public decision-makers through advocacy actions, including 6 officials from the Ministry of Justice, 1 representative from the National Human Rights Council (NHRC), 1 from the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC), and 10 parliamentarians who are members of sectoral committees.