The project aims to help empower women to address and resolve issues related to family law, including child support payments, marriage and divorce, labor, adoption and custody, etc.
 
The project activities took place in three countries in the Arab Region (Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia). ICTDAR is managing and coordinating the entire project at the regional level, national project managers are located in the countries of implementation.

Project General Objectives

• Benefit from ICT to promote women’s and children’s rights
• Promote women’s and children’s rights through knowledge-sharing and legal literacy among different social groups
• Enhance the services of centers working with women and children and reinforce the local capacity

Project Specific Objectives

• Facilitate women’s and children’s access to the correct and simplified legal information and raise their level of awareness their rights in relation to the family, labor, health, and their  political, economic, social and cultural rights
• Provide of legally-based information through answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) and legal forms
• Extend the outreach of the services of the partner institutions in this project
• Simplify the legal and administrative procedures of women and children

Outcomes:

• CD Rom production :

The information enclosed in a user-friendly, readily understandable legal information in textual format in CD-ROM and the website covers a digitized copy of all main acts, laws and decrees related to family, labor, health, and women’s and children’s social, economic, cultural and political rights, major relevant international conventions on women’s and children’s rights, the answers to 100 Frequently Asked Questions, legal forms, a list of NGOs concerned with women’s and children’s affairs in Tunisia and a glossary of terms. All this information is in Arabic.

• Web site : http://wrcati.cawtar.org 

• Training (TOT)

The project involved several institutions and organization in Tunisia, such as the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens Affairs, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Solidarity; the National Office for Family and Population and the National Union of Tunisian Women and NGOs.

More than 100, already existing, centers in rural and urban areas are using the CD-ROM to help women to access the information and advice. These centers are equipped with at least one computer and a printer. Women will access this information with the help of a social worker/assistants, judges-advisors, Child delegate and NGOs who have been trained in the basic use of the computer and CD content.
Furthermore, about 200 among interested persons visited he website monthly. This website is based on dynamic solution updated once a new laws or regulations are promulgated or new issues arise.

• A documentary film Production.
• Data base for the Alimony and Child Support Fund.
  

Results:

In collaboration with Microsoft :

• 2 Training sessions (TOT)
• 21 trainers
• About 100 activist in the field of Women and children rights have been trained on the CD ROM.

Sustainability

• Establishment of a (TOT) program on the content of the CD ROM…
• Use the CAWTAR Training Center to continue the training sessions.
• Disseminate a Community Of Practices.
• Launching of E-Forum discussions.