We seek to promote the rights of rural women by creating an enabling and supportive environment for them in their local communities, and spreading their rich contributions to Palestinian society.

The Rural Women’s Development Society has a strong and significant presence of the rural community base, with a network of more than 3,000 members distributed over 56 women's clubs. The association is also characterized by a unique organizational structure with a wide and large popular base of dedicated volunteers.

The Rural Women’s Development Society seeks to promote the rights of rural women by creating an enabling and supportive environment for them in their local communities, and spreading their rich contributions to Palestinian society, in addition to designing innovative projects within three programs: economic empowerment, social and political participation, and combating violence against women.

In the aforementioned programs, the Association employs education, awareness, community participation, mobilization, skills development, lobbying and advocacy in order to create women leaders within the rural community.

Our Vision

Equality between women and men, girls and boys in the Palestinian countryside, in line with the Declaration of Independence and international agreements and standards.

Our Message

The Rural Women’s Development Society seeks to create a feminist movement in the Palestinian countryside capable of demanding and developing women's social, economic and political rights.

Our values

The work of the Rural Women's Development Association is governed by a system of higher values that the association is committed to applying in its daily practices and strategic directions as leadership, management, employees, and employees, and they include:

Justice and bias towards the most marginalized and disadvantaged.

equality.

participation.

Transparency.

Volunteering.

credibility.

strength and uncompromising.

Our Strategic Objectives

The strategic objectives of the Rural Women Development Association for the years 2019-2023

Enhancing the level of justice and equality between men and women and reducing violence against women and girls in the Palestinian society.

Promoting economic justice for women and girls in the Palestinian countryside.

Improving the performance and efficiency of the association and raising the level of its representation and influence at the national, regional and international levels.