Over a period of 4 months, Hayat Mirshad worked with Diakonia International to develop the capacities of its regional partners in the MENA on feminist principles and ethics, gender justice programming and context, and ensuring a feminist work environment. Following the capacity development phase, Mirshad worked on developing a guiding document to help partners put the learnings they gained into action.

This consultancy succeeded in achieving the below objectives, set prior to implementation:

  • Improving Diakonia partner’s understanding of feminist principles and advancing cognitive and skill abilities to adopt feminist principles in their work and disseminate them in their contexts.
  • Advancing Diakonia’s partner’s capacity to analyze the MENA region’s current context and identify the main aspects of the gender justice issue in the region and how these aspects can be translated into regional programming.

During the consultancy period, Mirshad followed the methodology and submitted the deliverables below:

  • Conducting a Desk Review of Diakonia’s Global Strategy, Egypt Country Strategy and Program, and Feminist Principles.
  • Preparation of training agenda and material targeting partners and taking into consideration the different levels of knowledge and institutional capacity per organization.
  • Developing a brief context analysis of gender justice and feminist priority issues in the MENA region, with a main focus on Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen and Syria.
  • Conducting an in-person four-day workshop in Egypt to advance partners’ knowledge and skills on the tools and best practices that could be adopted in their organizations to incorporate feminist principles into their work.
  • Developing an Arabic guiding document proposing a set of feminist principles for the partners to adopt in their institutional system.