Rania Al-Hayyouk is the Executive Director at National Association for Family Empowerment (NAFE) based in Jordan. Her work focuses on social, political and economic empowerment of women. Throughout her career over the last 15 years with NAFE and other civil society organizations, she has built strong theoretical and practical experience and knowledge in women empowerment programmes in urban and rural areas focusing on promoting women (refugee and Jordanian) participation and engagement in political, social and economic arenas to improve their decision making abilities, living standards and well-being with focus on capacity building and skills development for participants and civil society organizations on gender, gender equality, responding to gender based violence, women rights and participation in public life, peacebuilding, women political participation, women economic development, conflict resolution, and Advocacy.

Participant in: August 2019 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding