Through the internship, interns will have a chance to get hands-on experience in the fields of development and women empowerment. During the two-month internship,

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, witnessed a session of the round table meeting of women’s ministers of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation under the title “A New Promising Organization for the Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World” on the sidelines of the work of the eighth session of the Ministerial Conference for Women of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation,

The Women Development Organization (WDO), in collaboration with the National Council for Women (NCW), the European Union (EU) in Egypt, and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), is holding in Cairo a hybrid intensive training workshop for WDO member states for two days. The training is on “Developing the Periodic Reports Submitted by Member States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).” The training is conducted by five experts of the CEDAW Committee.

The Governments of Germany, Sweden, and Nigeria together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Women Development Organization (WDO) held today an event on the margins of the 9th Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) which is currently held in Sharm Al Sheikh- Egypt, (13-17th December 2021). The event was held under the theme of “Shaping the Future - Anchoring Gender in our Anti-Corruption Efforts” which is one of the themes the conference currently discussing.

The Women Development Organization in collaboration with UN Women, UNODC and UNDP launched today the first round of discussions on the establishment of a Multi-partner Trust Fund.

His Excellency Ambassador Ehab Fawzy, Deputy Executive Director of the Women Development Organization, during the certificates’ hand over for passing the Training Workshop on “Developing the Periodic Reports Submitted by Member States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)”, which was held in Cairo last week.

Within the framework of its activities for the year 2022 on women and climate change, the Women Development Organization (WDO) in a tripartite partnership with the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), co-organized a Capacity Building Workshop for Farmers on Water Management in Agriculture

During the High-Level Forum on Food Security from 08th -09th of June 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the WDO moderated a Session on “Women and Food Security” during which her Excellency, Ambassador NAELA GABR

Dr. Afnan AlShuaiby, Executive Director of the WDO, stressed during her attendance at the first "Women CEO" conference in Cairo, the importance of the organization's role in taking concrete measures in order to ensure the effective participation of women in leadership roles and decision-making.

Dr. Afnan AlShuaiby, Executive Director of the Women Development Organization, participated in a panel discussion on the role of women in technology at the MENA ICT Forum, in the presence of H.E Minister Ahmed Hanandeh, Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.