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Community Outreach

Background
Community Outreach Unit is a newly developed program unit of GAD/C to be effective from January 2007. In June 2006, GAD/C endorsed its strategic plan for 2007-2011. During the strategic plan, the Board of Directors (BoD) suggested establishing a new program unit called Community Outreach Unit to take up the program activities that Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) unit currently runs. The decision was made on the consensus that the current program i.e., Women's Empowerment through Legal Awareness (WELA) of IEC Unit is a community outreach program in modality. The BoD also confirmed the need for an active IEC Unit in GAD/C.

Specific objectives of the unit are to raise awareness of the laws that protect and empower women to claim their rights preserved in laws. To provide men and women with the knowledge, skills and empathy to enable them to promote equality of opportunity for men and women to participate fully in raising children, participating in paid work and participating in decision-making at the family, community and society level. To advance dialog on the impacts of gender-based violence in the family, community and society. To enable family members and community leaders to identify and address issues that create disparity and disharmony, or place girls and women at risks of violence in collaborative and non-violence way.