Projects

The primary objective of Socio-economic empowerment for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon project is to enhance equal access and control of economic resources among Palestinian refugee women in Ein El Helweh,

Burj El-Barajneh, Beddawi, and Naher Al-Bared camps, with an emphasis on preserving Palestinian culture and identity, promoting women's rights, reducing the gender gap, and providing additional income in a challenging economic situation.

The knowledge of Palestinian cooking traditional food is informally passed from mother to daughter in the home. For this reason, it has been necessary to include training on producing these products and its origins to familiarize the women beneficiaries with Palestinian traditional food origins and characteristics.

This approach is aimed to provide 160 women beneficiaries with the skills and knowledge needed for professionally cooking, designed, labeling, packaging, marketing, and selling Palestinian traditional food. This will allow them to control and work on the production process of the product from the beginning to the end.

Through workshops in digital marketing and self-employment included in the project, Palestinian women will access first-hand technical assistance on quality production and marketing the products using trending platforms and reinforce their self-confidence by learning how they can start up their own business respectively.

The second part of the project is including training for women beneficiaries on acquiring managerial and leadership skills and on communication and advocacy who will become able to monitor the violations of the women rights in Lebanon and to defend them.

And, including training course of women rights to provide in-depth knowledge and understanding of women's rights and twelve awareness sessions about women rights and gender equality are designed to complement the training course on women's rights.  

The project establishes a cooperative in Ein El Helweh Camp that produces and sells traditional Palestinian food products from four camps included in the project. The cooperative will be managed by 12 women (3 from each camp) who will be selected based on their performance and after attending training in management and accounting.

The shop will be followed by electronic application to enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and reach of the project's activities and initiatives and Catalog for Traditional Palestinian food recipes produced by the Cooperative.

To create awareness and engagement, the project includes a social media campaign conducted every 6 months. These campaigns are designed and implemented by the network, featuring videos that convey messages aligned with the campaign's theme.