• Contact: Qutanah Huwaitat
  • Address: AQABA _ Al Disah _ Wadi Rum
  • Email: disi.women@gmail.com
  • Members:
    Disi women cooperative

Disi women cooperative

Disi women cooperative

Member since: 2021

Working towards these commitments

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
4

Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
7

Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
8

Transparent and accessible information

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
10

Protected land rights defenders

Mission

The Women’s Cooperative Association of Al-Disseh Basin Villages is located in the Al-Dissehdistrict, in the Wadi Rum area of southern Jordan. The association includes women from five Bedouin villages, representing the indigenous communities of the region. As of now, the association has 305 female members.

The cooperative’s mission is to empower women across all aspects of life, ensuring that women play an active role in the development of their local communities. The cooperative strives to create job opportunities for women in order to alleviate poverty and reduce unemployment.

Objectives

1. Empowering women in all areas of life
2. Developing a spirit of cooperation between its members and those who deal with them from groups and individuals.
3. Combating unemployment
4. Establishing a fund for education, social services and emergencies and encouraging higher studies by providing loans to students in need.
5. Developing the culture of women and children to the level that qualifies them to participate in all national, Arab and international issues.
6. Spreading the cooperative movement in the environment and helping to spread the coop-erative movement by all means, cooperating with other cooperative societies, and affiliation with any other bodies in support of the activities of the association and members alike.

Constituencies

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  • Contact: Qutanah Huwaitat
  • Address: AQABA _ Al Disah _ Wadi Rum
  • Email: disi.women@gmail.com
  • Members:
    Disi women cooperative
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