Brief Idea of each Department
1- Department of Policies and Legislations
– This department is conducting studies and providing consultancy to governmental and non-governmental organizations in all matters relating to political strategies and national legislations according to women’s and men’s needs, as well as its integration of the perspective of social gender and its reflections on the women’s life.
– Studying the legislations, and applicable laws and draft laws according to the perspective of social gender.
– Giving roles for professional academics in the women’s affairs to participate in the formulation of plans to prepare the national strategies and to propose laws and policies that promote the women’s status.
– Studying the effects of the implications, policies, laws and legislations of woman’s life.
– Following-up the research in the application of laws and policies to study their difficulties.
– Providing researches about the evaluation of woman’s status according to the international conventions in Iraq.
2-The Department of Empowerment and Building Capabilities Researches
The training and building capabilities are the main missions of the center . The most important goals of this department are:
-Conducting studies and researches in all fields economically, culturally and politically so that to help and to empower women in Iraq.
-Preparing and implementing the specialized workshops to build women’s capabilities and to develop the governmental and non-governmental institutions concerned with women’s affairs.
– Providing training programs to enhance the workers in the fields of social gender in all governmental departments as well as providing training workshops for postgraduate students and the researchers on modern methodologies of conducting research so that to enhance their capacities in the fields of social gender.
– Providing research of evaluation the capabilities and impact measurement to identify gaps, challenges and opportunities in order to improve the performance of institutions in dealing with social gender issues.
3- Department of the International Community Research
This department is intending to provide researches in the fields mentioned above on a regional and international scale in order to achieve :
-organizing network of contacts with corresponding international organizations and scientific institutions to get a membership to the center in regional and global research networks.
– Opening communicational channels with supported institutions (international, regional and local) to keep on the imports of the center and to develop the capabilities in achieving its objectives.
– Contracting agreements and conferences of cooperation and exchange with the scientific, local, regional and international institutions .
-Searching and coordination the ways of the studies produced by the center.
