Background
Gashbun Organization for over 10 years has been working through its mandate to promote women’s equal participation and leadership in ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, eradicating poverty and violence against women and children , catalyzing gender equality, protecting child rights, providing services to children with special needs, improving access to health and education, driving peaceful coexistence, reconciliation and equal and fair pathways to justice, building trust, tolerance, and inclusion, engaging youth, and strengthening sustainability of civil society, and shaping norms for localization development.
GASHBUN strives to achieve its mission by providing beneficiaries with the information, resources, and support necessary to enjoy their rights and achieve their potential. Through this effort, we aim to improve the quality of life for women and individuals with disabilities and promote a more inclusive society.
In partnership with local, regional, and global civil society, international organizations, and governmental bodies, GASHBUN has been able to successfully contribute towards meeting individual and community needs through multi-sectorial holistic programming that fosters gender and protection mainstreaming. During its experience GASHBUN has successfully delivered many humanitarian and development initiatives focused on local, regional, and global advocacy, providing protection services to children with special needs, women protection and empowerment, stabilization and reconciliation, peace building, general protection, child protection, SGBV prevention and response, psychological MHPSS and physical health and well-being, non-formal education, individual and community capacity building, cash assistance, , and civil society and governmental capacity building and engagement initiatives.
As a national and regional expert in holistic individual, family and community economic, education, protection, social, and equal participation empowerment, GASHBUNs efforts have shed light locally through advocacy on many important issues such as mainstreaming gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response across all sectors, sexual violence in conflict (SVC), and other issued related to marginalized groups rights in Iraq through initiatives that directly impact hundreds of families though provision of lifesaving support and developmental dignified solutions and services that drive individual and collective healing, integration, inclusion, self-resiliency, self-efficacy, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence with dignity and care.
Short description of the Project
The Canadian Embassy in Iraq is supporting Gashbun organization through granting a fund for the project of women protection and empowerment. The project is implemented in Domiz1&2 camp and Domiz urban area covering refugees, IDPs, and host community providing GBV case management, community member awareness, capacity building for service providers, vocational and educational training for girls and women, and cash assistance
