London, October 2026
In September 2026, partners in the Enhance girls’ and young women’s inclusion with the support of the community (ENHANCE) project met in Cairo for the project’s final workshop and Transnational Project Meeting. It was the last time the consortium would meet in person before the project ends on 31 October 2026, and the focus was on what two years of work have produced and how that work can continue.
About ENHANCE
Managed by RJ4All Europe and co-funded by the European Union, ENHANCE brings together seven organisations from Cyprus, Italy, North Macedonia, Jordan, Morocco and Egypt. It aims to tackle gender inequality and discrimination by strengthening the skills of NGO staff, educators and community leaders, so they can better support the inclusion of girls and young women in their communities.
The Cairo meeting
The programme in Cairo had two parts: a final workshop with partners from across the MENA region, and the project’s last Transnational Project Meeting.
The final workshop looked at how the community practices developed through ENHANCE can be scaled up, and how access to restorative justice can be improved at local level. Partners discussed practical ways to keep supporting young people and marginalised communities after the project ends, how to make sure marginalised voices are heard, and how to build equity into every activity.
The Transnational Project Meeting marked the project’s move from delivering activities to consolidating results, evaluation, final reporting and sustainability. Partners reflected on how the training camps and local replication activities had carried knowledge between European and non-European partners, and how each activity has contributed to the wider aims of ENHANCE. They reviewed progress on the training toolkits, capacity building, dissemination and community activities, with particular attention to the local workshops and seminars through which partners in Jordan, Morocco and Egypt share what they have learned with educators, NGOs and other local stakeholders.
Partners then agreed what is needed for final reporting, from attendance records and training materials to evaluation data, and the tasks to complete before the project closes. Finally, they looked beyond 31 October, discussing how the toolkits, methods and relationships built through ENHANCE can continue through replication, ongoing work with local stakeholders and future cooperation. The real test for a project of this kind is whether the practice continues once the funding ends.
Cairo was the last step in two years of shared learning. Before it, the partnership held three international training camps, each followed by local activities in which partners in Jordan, Morocco and Egypt adapted the methods for their own communities: project management in Turin in May 2025; social cohesion and solidarity in Tiznit, Morocco, in October 2025, where RJ4All introduced restorative justice methods that partners then used in replication camps in Jordan and Egypt; and non-formal education in Amman in January 2026, led by EUNOIA Skopje.
From SE16 to the wider world
For RJ4All, ENHANCE is part of a longer story. Much of the organisation’s understanding of restorative justice comes from work in its own community in SE16, London, including the Restorative Justice Postcode Project. Through ENHANCE, that evidence has been tested, questioned and adapted alongside partners working in very different settings, from Tiznit to Amman to Cairo. What the partners take forward is not a single model but a shared body of practice, shaped by local experience and now part of a wider international conversation about how communities can respond to inequality and division together.
