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Projects at ZENID
Each
year, ZENID implements around 25 - 30 projects with a range of
development partners. ZENID values this operational role, which creates
an opportunity to demonstrate the linkages between theory and practice.
ZENID draws on the rich experience gained from projects and field
operations to ensure that its training is up-to-date and grounded in
the realities of the field, and is tailored to the real needs of the people it serves. The summary below illustrates ZENID's project work.
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Project: Claiming rights
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Project title: It's your right to have equal rights
Project partners: ZENID, PBYRC, Jordanian National Forum for Women
National Centre for Culture and Performing Arts, (PAC)
Project funders: Freedom House
Target audience: Women in local
communities (18 and above)
Policy makers at both local and national levels.
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Project purpose
To raise awareness
about the importance of Jordanian labor laws and personal status laws in creating
an enabling environment in which citizens, especially women, can claim their
rights and to influence policy makers to support the necessary changes in laws
governing the everyday life of Jordanian women to bring Jordan in line with the
international conventions that it has signed and ratified. . .
Target audience
Women in local
communities (18 and above)
Policy makers at both local and national levels.
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Main components
Awareness raising
meetings through the JOHUD network of CDCs and through members of JNFW
Dissemination of messages
created by the Autostrad Radio Production Unit/Princess Basma Youth and
Resource Center (PBYRC) / ZENID
Wide distribution of
two posters with influential messages targeting policy makers.
The production and performance
of an interactive play disseminating messages on the main theme of the advocacy
campaign in partnership with National Center for Culture and Performing Arts
(PAC) of King Hussein Foundation,
The approach of the project is to combine a wide range of activities and media tools - awareness sessions, messages by posters, plays
and the march. In this way, there will be an effective campaign that encourages journalists to write on the issue. Media interest will encourage members of parliament to approve the remaining legislation that support women
rights. The women themselves will directly raise their voice
in the march, drawing on their own based on knowledge and experience, and will also use the radio program which will continue advocating for their rights.
The interactive play will assist in realizing the objectives of the project in respect of labour laws and personal status laws, and will also prompt women to assert their demand for basic rights with regards to such issues as alimony
payments, daycare, equal pay and establishing nurseries in the workplace.
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