The National Strategy for Women in Lebanon (2011-2021)

44 – National Strategy for Women in Lebanon 2011-2021 _ NCLW.pdf

The Lebanese government adopted the National Strategy for Women in Lebanon (2011-2021)(1)CEDAW “Concluding observations on the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Lebanon,” The UN OHCHR, 2015, p. 2, available at: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fLBN%2fCO%2f4-5&Lang=ar  (last accessed 28 December 2017). , which includes social, economic, political, legal, educational, cultural, and environmental reforms that will help to achieve better gender equality and protect women and girls from all forms of discrimination and violence. In order to execute the National Strategy for Women in Lebanon (2011-2021), the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) drafted what they termed the National Action Plan 2017-2019 (NAP), which aimed at defining attainable goals for the different local and national authorities and institutions, as well as their international partners, in order to implement the strategy.(2)CEDAW “Concluding observations on the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Lebanon,” The UN OHCHR, 2015, p. 6, available at:  http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fLBN%2fCO%2f4-5&Lang=ar  (last accessed 28 December 2017).