Salama & Karama
Freedom From Violence Against Women
 
 

 

Salama & Karama

Picking up from where others ended
 

Identifying  networks and stakeholders working
on women rights

Picking up from where others ended, Karama started  with identifying other efforts, projects, and networks that has worked in the same field to help  build on and integrate their efforts.
 

The situational analysis Study
 

 


Salama & Karama conducted a  participatory situational analysis of women status in local communities on the governorate level to come up with  violence against women main issues and  to identify key advocacy messages. The Study involved community members and the analysis  revealed the most common forms, harmful practices of domestic violence , issues related to women rights , and the legislative gaps related to domestic violence which affect the whole family status in  local communities.
 

Intermediary Organization selection
 

One of the project specific goals is to build
the capacity of  intermediary organization so that  in turn they build the capacity of 10 civil society organizations per governorate to be able to provide psycho-social support & assistance to women affected by violence. The project is finalizing the process of selecting the Intermediary organizations,  setting the criteria for selecting the villages and civil society organizations.
 

Next Steps

  • Selection of village, and civil society organizations.

  • Conducting mapping exercise with community members and setting village plans.

  • Identifying advocacy issues on the local and national levels.

  • Identifying Case studies and documenting it.

  • Analyzing Advocacy issues.

For More Information about the project

Contact: Ms. Vivian Thabet, Project Manager
Tel: (202) 2526 0096/2526 337
email: vthatbet@egypt.care.org

 
 
 
 


PROJECT DURATION:
 (May2007- May 2010)

 PROJECT OBJECTIVE
Enhance the rights
of women to ensure greater physical
integrity in Egypt, by creating an enabling environment for the advancement of
women rights, through national & local level interventions.

TARGET GROUP:
1- Marginalized women, children and men affected by domestic violence in targeted governorates. 

2- Intermediary

organizations on the

governorate level and

CSO’s on the village level.

3- State Agents, 
religious & community leaders, policy makers
at the national and governorate levels,
and  the media

LOCATION
 Assiut, Miney & Suhag.

PARTNERS
 Alliance for Arab
Women (AAW),
Center for Egyptian Women Legal
Assistance (CEWLA)

FUNDED BY
European Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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