Algeria

ISED Solutions 

Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs [Women, Economic] – By teaming with local partners, ISED Solutions is providing business technical assistance, business training, mentoring, access to business resources, and is facilitating a network of women business owners.  This project is considering establishing a model women’s business development center (WBAC) in Algeria, as it has already done in Tunisia.

Hocine Saadi 

“Algerian Women Today” Film Documentary [Women, Democracy] – in this grant, Algerian film director Hocine Saadi will produce and widely distribute a 30-minute documentary motion picture describing the life and struggles of three Algerian women – the president of a non-governmental organization (NGO) for the disabled, the publisher of an Arabic-language daily newspaper, and the youngest Deputy in the Algerian National Assembly.  The director will use this film to demonstrate to what extent the role of Algerian women has changed since the rampant terrorism in the country during the 1990s, as well as the ability of these women and others to affect positive change in Algerian society.