Background About Women’s Affairs Center (WAC):

Women’s Affairs Center (WAC) is a women knowledge-based center playing an innovative and catalytic role in empowering women; and advocating women's rights and gender equality in the Palestinian sustainable development process. Its mission reflects that it is an independent and non-profit Palestinian NGO with the purpose of empowering women and advocating women’s rights and gender equality through capacity development, information and innovative research and advocacy programs. While implementing its strategy to fulfill its vision, WAC is guided by international human rights principles including empowerment and participation; equality and non-discrimination; and accountability to ensure justice and dignity for women.

About “Economic Empowerment for Gaza Entrepreneurs 2023” Project:

WAC is implementing “Economic Empowerment for Gaza Entrepreneurs 2023 (GoPinky-1)” project which is funded by DanChurchAid/Norwegian Church Aid (DCA/NCA). The project aims at enhancing the economic empowerment and increasing the prosperity for low-income young women and men in the Gaza Strip through joint approaches that support innovation and entrepreneurship to overcome challenges that impede achieving a progress towards a sustainable economic development. It targets unemployed young female graduates and young Gazan entrepreneurs. It provides support to young female graduates to acquire digital skills and competencies required in the labor market and to young entrepreneurs to create new innovative businesses, which will in turn create employment opportunities and address market related challenges.

Scope of the Assignment:

WAC is willing to train 50 young female graduates (possible freelancers) on digital security to protect themselves against digital threats and equip them with the knowledge and tools needed to protect themselves and their information/ projects from security breaches.

The trainer has to cover a total of 20 training hours/ divided among 2 groups (10 hours (2 days)/ per group (25 females).

Accordingly, WAC is in the process of the selecting of highly qualified individuals who have proven experience on Digital Security.

Target Group:

50 young female graduates (possible freelancers) from different governorates of the Gaza Strip. 

Timing:

The assignment should be delivered to the selected graduates and its allocated training hours that are already aforementioned. The work timeline that will be agreed upon and may be altered by the project and ICT – WAC team at its discretion. A high commitment should be granted to the timeframe and any change in the timeframe should be discussed, justified, and validated by WAC.

Any setback occurs affecting the cycle of training due to failure of trainer; WAC reserves the right to terminate the contracts without offering compensations.