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YWLA training
session/ Dohuk
From Apr. 2nd to 24th of Apr, 2009, WLI implemented training
sessions of Young Women Leadership Academy program. Many
topics cover in these training sessions like: Time Skills
Management, Women and Politics, Communication Skills, The
Political System, Computer, and Journalism, Economical
System in Iraq, Leadership skills, Human Rights, Gender and
Sex, Negotiate Skills. Students express their happiness at
the end of the training course wishing to have more courses
of (YWLA), because, they became stronger, and more
courageous. Each one gave his opinion about the training
course, and the results were very good.
Finally, the girls proved that they are really well- trained
to be leadership women, to have a promising future.
YWLA training
session/ Basra
From Mar. 30th to 23rd of Apr, 2009, WLI/ Basra office
implemented training sessions of Young Women Leadership
Academy program, aims at creating leadership women in their
position, support them and strengthen their capacities. The
participants had courses in: Democratic principles, Islam
and Democracy, Creative thinking, Iraq's constitution and
federal system, How to deal with the media, Women and the
law and many other subjects.
Training
From the 21st of Jul. to
the 17th of Aug. 2009, WLI conducted sixty one
trainings about woman leadership capacity building,
attended by approximately 1500 women, in most of the
Iraqi provinces. The trainers talked about the
representation of women in legislative councils and
their determination to take the role of leaders and
educators for generations at the same time, and the
need to adopt the status of efficiency rather than
the Quota in women’s representation because of its
usefulness in the past experiences in terms of its
presence in the parliament, provincial councils and
district. After impotent topics have been submitted,
the following recommendations have been reached:-
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The
Need to maintain one opinion for the women which
is the fact for the success of the feminist
organizations.
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Establishing of an information system (visual
and audio) to transfer the voice of women in
particular to express the views of women and for
the delivery of voice to public opinion to suit
their needs.
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Woman is basic element in the society and must
be supported and be focus on her and on her
participation in state and society.
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Must
focus on human development programs, which
develops the efficiency extent of workers in the
area of non-governmental organizations which is
reflected on the volume of service provided by
these organizations.
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Expand training to include more women due the
importance of training’s topics.
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Activation of the Iraqi
constitution, laws and the application of
articles on the rights and freedoms and
considered as a reference for the Iraqi State.
Workshops
From the 22nd of Jul. to the 10th of Aug. 2009, WLI
implemented workshops for 255 women about
capacity-building of women's political parties, in
most of Iraqi provinces. In these workshop, WLI
aimed to improve communication between political
parties, develop public relations skills and the
trainer tried to motivate the participants to be the
favorite kind of listener which is the focusing
listener not the other two kind which they are the
vigilant listener and superficial listener in order
to success the communication process.
The trainer clarified the concept of leadership and
its skills including the commitment and
perseverance, knowledge and setting goals, patience
and understanding of differences and coherence and
persuasion and then talked about the leader's
preferences by the review of the main advantages is
the leader then addressed the types of leaders, and
the rules of leadership and the features a good
leader. The trainer divided the participants into
work groups and they reach to the following
recommendations:-
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Bring women's voices to the higher authorities
through the feminist party is more secure and
successful.
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The staff of women in the parties still lacks a
lot of skills and competencies which need to be
lifted.
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The necessity of activate women’s role in the
parties through new fruitful methods.
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The success of women role as a leader in
legislative councils in spites their few number
and that’s need to legal and legislative roles
to protect women existence in the
making-decision positions.
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