Conference: "Empowering Sudanese Women to Develop the Sudan after 9th July 2011 (with UN Women)", 2-3 October 2011
The conference involved participants from diverse sectors including academia, media, government, banks, UN agencies and the private sector. It explored issues of gender gaps and underlying gender-based injustice in Sudan, aiming to identify their causes and coming up with a road map in order to achieve women’s empowerment and gender justice. The findings and recommendations of this conference will be published and disseminated so as to reach as wide an audience as possible.
Workshop on Women’s Empowerment (with American University of Cairo), 2009
The workshop discussed study findings and success stories. The workshop proceedings will be printed.
Workshops to Lobby for Including a Women’s Quota in the Electoral Law of 2008 (with Friedrich Ebert Foundation), 2008-2010
These workshops were held to enhance women's political participation and campaigning skills and to integrate of women's empowerment and gender equality issues in the programs of political parties, in collaboration with IDEA and UNIFEM. Papers were written on these issues for the workshops, and reports on the workshops and conferences were also produced.
Workshop on Voter Education (with USIP), in 2008
A training manual was produced based on this workshop.
Conference on the Implementation of Federalism in Sudan (with USIP), 2008
Conference on Legal Reform (with USIP), 2008
National conference on Education for All for Living Together (with UNICEF and DFID), 2007
Workshop to advocate for the ratification of the African Protocol on Women’s Rights, 2007
Awareness-raising workshop on UN Resolution 1325 (with USIP), 2006
Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Policy (with UNMIS), 2006
Workshop in preparation for the UN conference on Beijing+10, 2005
Violence Against Women, 2005
A conference was held to highlight various areas of violence including in traditional practices, education, laws, domestic violence, street harassment, violence against women in organizations, etc. The outcome was an unpublished report of proceedings and a follow-up workshop in 2009 which led to the formation of a network of NGOs, academic and government bodies to combat violence against women.
Women's Minimum Agenda after the Peace Agreement of 2005
Workshop in preparation for the Oslo donors’ meeting on Sudan. The outcome was a book published in 2008 under the title Sudanese Women’s Profile and Pathways to Empowerment.
Sudanese Women: Achievements and Challenges, 2004
The outcome of a process of holding several workshops since 2003 to discuss achievements and challenges in the areas of politics, media, academia, education, civil society sector, health, government institutions and work. The proceedings of the conference were printed in 2005 and then edited and published in 2007.
