Women's Economic Linkages and Employment Development

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) enabled 1 087 women to graduate from WE LEAD supported training programs (643 from Medical Office Assistants 146 from Health Social Workers and 298 from Early Childcare Development (ECCD). Results of the endline evaluation indicate that WE LEAD contributed to the empowerment of women with an increase in the percentage of beneficiaries who are now able to make everyday household decisions from a baseline of 86.8% to 98%; (2) increased the employment of women through businesses in health and childcare sectors by 37% in targeted regions (East Amman Irbid and Zarqa); (3) enabled 100% of women from the ECCD program interested in starting their home-based nurseries with support from the National Council for Family Affairs (10 women in pilot phase 1 10 women in pilot phase 2); (4) supported 6 private sector hospitals in their efforts to create a more enabling work environment and to improve women employee’s working conditions by implementing gender-sensitive interventions and institutionalizing greater gender awareness; (5) supported 191 women to benefit from the piloted approaches to childcare. For the institutional nurseries (Al Istishari hospital Al Istiqlal hospital Al Khansaa hospital) a total of 71 women 9 men and 85 children benefited from the nurseries; (6) 62% of women reported improvements in the availability of childcare services in the targeted locations noting about a 30% increase from the baseline of 32.8%; (7) allowed 537 women to benefit from daycare or childcare services available to women through WE LEAD pilots; and (8) reached about 3.9 million people through a national gender-sensitive media campaign.