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The Women Empowerment Agency was established in April 2019, with the initiative “Empowering women in the civil service and enhancing their leadership role” in the public sector and lately, the private sector, in an effort to achieve the goal of increasing women's participation in the labor market.
Mission :
The Women Empowerment Agency seeks to create initiatives and projects that support the empowerment of women and people with disabilities in the Saudi labor market and work to implement them in order to achieve the goal of increasing women's participation in the labor market in order to achieve justice in equal opportunities in the labor market.
Objectives:
Legislations and policies that support the empowerment of women and people with disabilities.
Human resource practices and procedures that achieve equal opportunities for both sexes.
Development of promising women leaders and cadres with disabilities.
Promote a positive mental image about the work of women and people with disabilities.
Spreading the culture of diversity, inclusiveness and inclusion in the labor market (women - people with disabilities).
Initiatives:
Support inclusiveness and diversity in the labor market (women - people with disabilities).
Combating discrimination in the labor market.
Stimulating and supporting gender balance in the labor market.
Encouraging career development (women - people with disabilities).
Reducing regulatory restrictions that hinder women from working in the labor market.
Programs and Projects:
The National Women Leadership Platform project.
Project to achieve gender balance
The initiative to support beauty centers
Women in Boards Project
The Council of Chambers' agreement with the Women Empowerment Agency to support women empowerment projects
The initiative to localize the children's hospitality sector
Experience of establishing a children's hospitality center
Training and leadership mentoring initiative for women cadres
As part of KAU's internal policies and in alignment of the National Vision 2030, in all KAU activities that are related to FEMALES, more than 80% of the attendees and participants are FEMALES, since they are WOMEN empowering access schemes, targeting exclusively FEMALES and organized by FEMALES themselves.
Mentoring Schemes by the Deanship of Student Affairs for Female Students' Activities
A swift look at the page of the Deanship of Student Affairs for Females Activities, presents an executive brief of the various types of Mentoring Schemes and Women Empowering Programs, Statistics, Achievements, and Services for the academic year 2019-2020 where these programs are organized by female students/faculty, attended by female students/faculty, and target female students. The list of activities is very long to detail in here, but the brief description can be fetched from the deanship's page and annual reports.
The video at the beginning of the page briefs all annual statistics.
University Advising Unit for Preparatory Year Students
The university counseling unit is a specialized unit to serve the student and support her in developing her skills, refining her abilities to adapt to life and the requirements of success, and helping her to find possible solutions to the problems she faces to achieve adaptation and psychological harmony.
Our goals:
Providing individual and group counseling services to help the university student achieve personal, social, family and academic compatibility.
Activating the development programs related to the personal, social, professional and psychological aspects of the university student.
Helping female students adjust to university life.
Supporting the student in developing her skills and refining her abilities to adapt to life in reducing stress, preventing disorders and dealing with them positively.
Spreading the cooperative culture through volunteer work and training and sponsoring preparatory year guides.
University Advising Unit Programs:
Individual and group counseling:
Helping students solve their psychological, academic and social problems by providing individual and group counseling.
Academic support and career counseling:
Providing support to students who are struggling or facing academic problems. Support is also provided by helping students choose the appropriate major.
Psychometric:
Insight into the problems faced by female students by applying psychological standards and developing solutions to them through a group of various measures in all cognitive and psychological fields.
My Skills Program:
Developing the life skills of preparatory year students through a series of training courses.
Entertainment routing:
Supporting students' educational and awareness ideas and initiatives directed at female students.
Preparatory Year Guides:
A program that seeks to communicate with the preparatory year student and help her to reconcile and succeed in her university life through university life guides.
School visits:
Working on introducing high school students to how to prepare for university life.
التقرير-السنوي-للعام-1442هـ.pdfA sample annual report briefing the huge set of activities that are organized, implemented, and attended by FEMALES only.
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