We try (February 2014- February 2015) supported by the Women Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratization Project- www.weldd.org)
This one year initiative works to build the capacity of local young grassroots leaders (men and women) of understanding the context where they live and act in three villages in Minya; helping them to identify problems and conflicts in order to take collective actions with women in their villages. The final goal of the initiative is that women can realize that they can be agent of changes through working together on small projects. The three steps of the project are:
- Conduct an assessment of the situations that create sectarian conflicts in the three villages through a rapid approach appraisal (social mapping) to be conducted by the coordinator. Training community leaders on the peace building modules developed by the project
- The leaders will work with the women in the village over 10 months through weekly meetings; these meetings will aim at helping women to identify wrong perceptions about other religious believers, recognize the problems and help in developing demands to be integrated in any conflicts mediation which usually exclude women.
- Produce joint activities between Christian and Muslim women in the villages
