Gender

KIIR is committed to empower women in the AJK region. The gender component, which was considered as a crosscutting theme, has emerged as a direct focus area. It is now working as a full-fledged component having multiple prongs of grassroots interventions designed to enhance women’s social, economic and political participation in Kashmir. The organization had undertaken several activities over the years to create an enabling environment for women, particularly in the social and economic political sectors.

The program has successfully mobilized and developed a new generation of women leaders from all parts of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir region. So far more than three hundred young women, social and political leaders, and academics have received training, advice and linkages development support from KIIR. These women are now coming up with new social campaigns, entrepreneurial initiatives and political actions to identify common challenges and develop shared solutions. Particularly in the past five years, KIIR has undertaken following activities for emerging women leaders in AJK to polish their leadership skills and enhance linkages.

Since 2013, KIIR has been engaging and bringing together women from across all divisions of AJK (Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot). Through various capacity building workshops, leadership and conflict resolution trainings, and policy dialogues, KIIR has supported a large constituency of AJK women in articulating their voices and claiming spaces for themselves in the existing civic platforms. KIIR has enabled them to think creatively and claim their lost spaces and see their larger role in resolution of the conflict, of which they are the biggest victims. This is done through creating an environment for collaborative learning by setting a tradition of reaching out to communities which are voiceless or unheard in the Kashmir conflict including women suffering directly from shelling at the Line of Control (LoC),and women who want their narratives to be heard and feed into policy making processes relating to the conflict.

2013: ?4 capacity building workshops on Conflict Analysis (Rawlakot, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Islamabad)
2014: ?Organized cross LoC women dialogue in Philippines
2015: ?First ever research study analyzing the impact of conflict on women living along LOC tilted: Voices Unheard Stories Untold: The Plight of Women in Neelum Valley.
2016:?Gender Sensitive Legislation Workshop (Islamabad) Policy dialogue on Enhancing Spaces for Political Participation of Women (Islamabad) Round table on women as agents of change (Kotli)
2017: ?Four Leadership-Training Workshops (Rawlakot, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad) Islamabad.
2017-18: ?4 Leadership and conflict Resolution trainings, for young women (Islamabad, Rawlakot, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur)

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