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Anissa Naqrachi

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Known For: President and Founder, Nour Association for Solidarity with Rural Women
Country: Morocco

About

Anissa Naqrachi is President and Founder of the Nour Association of Solidarity for Rural Women in the far-southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate, with an approximately 1900 Muslim women membership. Ms. Naqrachi is also credited with making the Moroccan Center of Information and Documentation for Women (CMIDEF) accessible to women in Ouarzazate. She is also a committee member of the National Initiative for Human Development (NIHD), an innovative and ambitious project aiming at eliminating poverty, vulnerability, precarious situations, and social exclusion. Its main goal is to set up a modern, democratic social project, analyze disparities between social categories, sexes, and areas to establish perennial dynamics for human development. She is a local partner with the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), which works to improve gender equality and human right in Morocco. Ms. Naqrachi is also an alumni member and consultant for the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), an association created to support Muslim women in the most disadvantaged regions of Morocco. JIDA aims to promote social, economic and cultural action in rural areas through helping women and girls adapt their jobs to their environment and help disabled women.

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