:: Strategy / Purpose ::
Defining the role of the Lebanese Council of Women
In order to set a strategy fitting the challenges ahead, the sitting administrative body of LCW, in consultation with the General Assembly met to discuss and redefine the role and purpose of the Council.
They agreed that the basic structure of the Council -an umbrella organization for more than 170 NGOs- sets it aside and defines its role based on its potential.
The purpose of LCW is not to be just another NGO. Its role is to provide direction and vision to the activities of its member organizations by coordinating their efforts and mobilizing their potential towards a common goal:
- A Lebanon where all citizens -men and women- have equal rights and opportunities
Each of the member organizations of LCW has a specific agenda whether providing social, medical, or educational services. Many are active in the field of improving social awareness in relation to women causes including the issue of political and economic empowerment, and changing the social perception of the role of women. These grass root activities are essential and constitute the basis for improving women conditions in the Lebanese society.
LCW's role in this instance is to provide the advisory and material support necessary to back its member's activities especially in the fields of: women's progress, their social well-being, or the respect of their rights.
On the national level, LCW -with its wide network of several thousands members spread geographically over the whole Lebanese territory and representing the cultural and ethnic diversity of Lebanon- has the potential to act as a catalyst to mobilize and effectively promote the current general objectives of the Lebanese feminine movement on the national level:
- Working towards the modernization of laws that discriminate against women
- Promoting the ratification of laws guaranteeing gender equity
- Working on social awareness and changing the image of women
- Working for the empowerment of women financially and politically
The Administrative Committee and the General Assembly stressed their ambition to, once again, play the role its founding mothers thought to achieve; a leader of the Lebanese women's rights movement
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