307 Results Are Tagged With "Women and Girls Empowerment"

In 2005 King Mohammed VI launched the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH)?a ten-year, $3 billion partnership between the state, international investors including the U.S., and Moroccan NGOs, aimed at strengthening democracy and growing the economy by engaging sectors of civil society that reach vulnerable populations at the local level. The core agenda of the INDH prioritizes women?s empowerment, particularly in rural regions, to integrate women more broadly into the social, economic, and political lives of their communities. Has the INDH helped to empower rural women, now ten years later, as its first mandate concludes?

The project aims at starting a grassroots anti-trafficking coalition, meeting with and/or writing to the local, state, and federal government representatives about combating human trafficking in the community, distributing public awareness materials, hosting an awareness events, tracing and rehabilitation of victims.