Project profile — Women's Voice and Leadership - Morocco

• Morocco (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)

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.

Among the results achieved up to March 2024: (1) organized a collective training on developing relevant and effective projects and implemented effective actions in favour of gender equality and women's empowerment in Morocco; (2) set up a fundraising support process involving several associations enabling each of them to develop its own fundraising strategy; (3) organized a round table to support women's rights organizations in their lobbying of the Moroccan government for reform of the penal code; (4) organized an awareness-raising campaign for 540 schoolchildren on issues of gender equality, women's rights and violence against women and girls; (5) created humanitarian clubs to promote gender equality in four schools; (6) created an innovative and inclusive program offering legal assistance, psychological support, health care and professional integration opportunities to single mothers; (7) 160 single mothers received administrative and legal support; (8) organized a symposium workshop on the legal and social implications of underage marriage; (9) organized a competition to produce short films on the rights of domestic workers, the fight against child labor, girls' precarious schooling, and underage marriage; (10) developed an application aimed at producing data to monitor the impact of policies and reveal areas where further action is needed to close gender gaps; (11) prepared a critical analytical study and a memorandum in favour of substantial reforms to criminal procedure to eliminate gender discrimination; and (12) produced a documentary film aimed at raising awareness of women's rights in Morocco, with the active participation of 52 film professionals.

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