With programs that extend from the shores of North Africa in Morocco to the booming desert economy of the United Arab Emirates to the culturally diverse city streets of Lebanon, Vital Voices is committed to the expansion of social, political and economic progress for women in the Middle East and North Africa.

Vital Voices is a non-governmental organization that identifies, trains, and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all. Vital Voices provides women with the capacity, connections and credibility they need to unlock their leadership potential. An international staff and team of over 1,000 partners, pro bono experts and leaders, including senior government, corporate and NGO executives, have trained and mentored more than 5,000 emerging women leaders from over 150 countries in Asia, Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East since 1997. Those women have returned home to train and mentor more than 100,000 additional women and girls in their communities.

Vital Voices Global Partnership is a non-governmental organization that identifies, trains, and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.

The MENA Businesswomen’s Network has reached over 3,500 businesspeople through a series of 44 events in 10 cities across the region, including a lecture on keys to leadership in Kuwait and a program on professional management in Bahrain.

In a ground-breaking initiative to promote public-private partnerships for social and economic progress, Vital Voices is working in Jordan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to promote sustainable, profitable and productive collaborations that have a positive impact on communities, especially for women. Currently, Vital Voices is strategically engaging key players to build a public-private partnership aimed at developing a blueprint for implementing “one-stop” outreach centers for family violence victims.

In addition to women leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, Vital Voices works with women across the world who are at the forefront of national and international efforts to advance women’s political, economic, and social progress. Vital Voices empowers these emerging women leaders to become change agents in their regions, nations, and communities by equipping them with management, business development, and communication skills to expand their enterprises, help them provide for their families, and create jobs in their communities.

Investments in women’s leadership around the world manifest positive social, political, and economic change. This investment begins with one woman but the ripple effects are felt throughout communities, countries, and the world.