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WePower’s Flagship 2018 Project – representation in the public sphere:
1. Rais awareness about the need
“Local 2018”
to make significant inroads by
In 2017, WePowe in partnership promoting additional capable
with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung women in the public sector;
and the Dafna Foundations, took an 2. H e l p r e c u r r i n g w o m e n w h o
unprecedented initiative, to create and are both committed to gender
lead an ad-hoc coalition to change the equality, and have real chances of
gender gap in the upcoming Israeli winning in the elections; and
municipality elections, in partnership 3. Tr a i n , e m p o we r a n d s u p p o r t
with the major women’s organizations women candidates throughout the
in Israel. The coalition’s name is simply electoral process.
“Local 2018”. Over 25 organizations
joined hands to work together towards The results of our various effor ts
the advancement of women in Israel, speak for themselves:
including: WIZO, the Israel Women’s The number of women who ran for
Network, Equal, Itach Ma’aki, the local authority elections in October,
Rackman Centre, TAFI, Women Against 2018 was 1,283, compared with 533
Violence, the Women Council Members in 2013 (a 2.4 times increase).
Association, Shatil, Mossawa, Your Voice, The number of women who ran for
and many more. heads of municipalities also went
up dramatically, from 42 to 72
The coalition, headed by WePower, candidates.
organized joint activities designed to 120 of WePower graduates also
influence the results of the upcoming joined the “October revolution” as
elections in October 2018, to increase candidates in the municipalities;
the number of women represented 20 of them even ran for head of
at the decision-making tables in the municipality positions. We are so
Israeli local councils. proud of them!
The achievements of women as a
Local 2018 set forth the following result of the elections are the
p r i o r i t i e s fo r i t s j o i nt e ffo r t s, to following: the number of heads of
increase the level of women’s authorities more than doubled, from
6 to 14, and the number of council and
plenary session members was up by
169 members.
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