As part of a Norwegian funded project aiming at the political empowerment of Palestinian Women, the CEC has commenced a series of Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 63 potential women trainers as of today. The aim of training is to build the knowledge and training capacities of women participants on mainstreaming of gender issues in elections.
The CEC will be holding a total of three training workshops, four days each, in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Training will cover issues on gender and elections, the political and electoral rights of women, mechanisms for mainstreaming gender issues in all phases of the electoral process.
At the end of training successful participants will be officially accredited trainers on gender issues and elections and will be selected to deliver electoral awareness workshops, during the second phase of the project, to wider segments of women and men groups in a number of population centers across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
