WATC‘s Target Groups and Strategies

WATC works at different levels: at the level of the decision makers, community awareness, empowerment of women, capacity building of women organizations, and networking for a unified agenda for women’s rights. The table below identifies the target groups and the programmes, activities and strategies directed at each group.
 

Target groups

Programmes, activities and strategies

Decision makers, political parties, PLC members, key people

Advocacy and lobbying, forming pressure groups, training, awareness, ICE material, draft laws, conferences, meetings

Young women leaders (14 -23 years)

Young men leaders (14-23)

Poor and rural female high school students

Empowerment for leadership to play a role in the advocacy and community awareness, internet training, transportation fees

Women candidates for  local and national councils and members of these councils

Empowerment for running elections campaigns and playing an effective role in the councils, training on gender reading of laws and programmes and policies, forums, networking

Rural women (24 + years)

Empowerment for leadership to play a role in advocacy and community awareness, internet training, management and income-generating training

Women Professionals (journalists, lawyers,

etc )

Men professionals

Empowerment of individual rights, union rights, awareness of professional and legal rights, support initiatives and promote successful models

Women refugees

Empowerment for leadership, awareness of rights as per the international conventions

Women in general

Awareness - ICE material

Local community (men and women)

Awareness programmes at community and/or national levels, pamphlets, radio programme, Voice of Women newsletter, TV programme, billboards 

Member women's organizations

Capacity and network building

Women and youth organizations

Capacity building, networking, building common vision, amendment of laws, demonstrations, press releases

Civil society organizations

Networking and building common vision, amendment of laws, demonstrations, press releases, forums that address specific issues related to women, laws and reform.

Palestinian society

Awareness programmes at the community and/or or national levels,   pamphlets, radio programme, Voice of Women newsletter, TV programme, billboards