Best practices

The mind-set of every human being is shaped by its solidarisation process. A large part of the latter takes place in schools. Therefore, the project, which was running from April 2007 to March 2009, aimed at the establishment of educational tools and mechanisms on peace education through 15 schools in Israel, Jordan and Palestine.

The Arab Human Development Report (2004) identified gender based discrimination as a major obstacle to development in Arab countries and domestic violence represents one of the most critical constraints of women’s development. Prevalent gender perceptions in Arab countries depict men as the stronger sex, the provider of the family and its representative towards the outside world.

The project aims at strengthening the rule of law and democratic process through the crea­tion of guidelines and standards governing civil society (NGOs, political parties, labour unions) based on national dialogue with governments.

The FES supports in Turkey the national campaign to increase the participation of women in politics. Together with its long time partner KA-DER (Association for Support and Training of Women Candidates) it aims to empower and encourage women and develop strategies for effective and equal participation of women in parliaments and other decision making bodies.