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CREDIF Presentation
Legal status
The CREDIF was created under the Law No. 78 of 7 August 1990, repealed and amended by Law No. 121 of 29 December 1992.
The Center is placed under the authority of the Ministry of Women, Family, Children and the Elderly (MFFES).
It is a non-administrative public office (EPNA), governed by Decree No. 97-546 of 31 March 1997.
Its administrative and financial structure and its management are fixed by Decree No. 1986 of 27 December 1993, amended by Decree No. 1999 of 31 May 1999.
Historical Overview
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Since its independence on 20 March 1956, Tunisia has made tireless efforts to promote the status and rights of women and to strengthen their role in society and in the different fields of life. The Personal Status Code (CSP), enacted on 13 august 1956, amended repeatedly and reinforced by the reforms of 1993, has established a solid legal platform that has placed women at the core of the human development strategy, implemented the foundations of the rule of law and institutions, and enhanced women from the rank of equality to that of partner acting in the development of the present and in building the Republic of tomorrow.
It is in its realization of the sincere political will and the reformist societal project that the Center for Research, Studies, Documentation and Information on Women (CREDIF), was created with the mission of becoming a reference institution in terms of improving the status of women and intensifying the participation of the female element in the development action, as well as an effective mechanism in the realization of the state policy in the field of the promotion of women.
This center has become a pole specialized in social gender issues. In fact, it becomes within a very short period and thanks to many activities, important programs and in-depth studies, it has managed to acquire a great influence at the national and international levels, which has made it a specialized space for the treatment of women’s problems and equal opportunities between sexes.
Missions and prerogatives of the center
The creation of CREDIF is aiming at actively contributing to the promotion of women’s status.
Its main duties are:
- Conducting studies, research, reports and conferences on the status of Tunisian women and on the social roles and relationships of both sexes;
- Collecting, updating and disseminating data related to women’s status in Tunisia;
- Providing information on Tunisian women’s rights and their participation in public, political, economic, cultural life…;
- Providing its expertise in women’s affairs and development to different governmental parties and organizations;
- Participating in the work of different national commissions and providing policy choices in the light of the recommendations resulting from field studies in order to reinforce women’s role in the development process;
- Providing the concerned parties with databases in order to render required information on Tunisian women;
- Working on the institutionalization of gender;
- Designing and implementing sessions of national and international training on gender and women’s rights;
- Carrying out actions on raising-awareness and communication dealing with the strategic axes of the center;
- Ensuring media monitoring of the image of women through print media via a monitoring mechanism created by the center since 1997;
- Capitalizing publications on women and gender through a special documentary fund.