The project is designed to empower women and advance inclusiveness in governance in the MENA region, specifically in Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. The project aims to increase the capacity of women to engage in leadership roles and governance processes and enhance the ability of women and men to influence policies pertaining to inclusiveness.

The program adopts a strategic approach based on four underlying principles:

• Provision of leadership skills training to enhance the leadership capacities of women and increase their confidence to assume leadership roles.
• Facilitation of networking between the targeted female stakeholders and established women leaders to enable knowledge transfer and experience sharing on transformational leadership, governance, and policies.
• Development and dissemination of materials to foster increased awareness on women’s leadership and empowerment amongst the citizenry of the target countries.
• Enhancing the capacity of local organizations and actors to train and impart knowledge in women’s leadership and empowerment to fellow citizens.

Outcomes:

Within each stage of the program, 40 women from the university’s administrative staff were trained to acquire leadership and life skills such as self-management, anger management, healthy work environment, career communication, influential leadership, strategic planning, and others.