Progress towards SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
Al-Quds University continues pursuing SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. The University’s mission values integrating teaching and research, advocacy and outreach, and advocacy and service to the community. The University’s initiatives aim to ensure equity and inclusion, particularly empowering the marginalized and disadvantaged individuals and groups in the academic and social domains.
Education and Access to Opportunities
Al-Quds University’s mission pledges to equality in educational attainment, and university policies aim at equality of educational access no matter how disadvantaged and marginalized socio-economically, ethnically and culturally, or a spectrum of gender. By providing service scholarships and targeted outreach and aid, the educational attainment of learners from those targeted communities and the communities of service, and aid, university policies afford marginal and vulnerable communities the opportunity for higher education to realize social inclusion and social mobility.
Research on Inequality and Social Justice
Research on equity and social justice and inclusive development, modules taught and supervised by some faculty members in some of the University’s centers, cover a healthy spectrum of analyses on inequalities, disparate outcomes, discriminations of social mobility and equity, gender, and public policies. Evidence and analyses, even without a policy reach, help the Palestinian and the area social equity and social economic justice inequities.
Curriculum and Pedagogy:
The university offers an inclusive and socially responsive curriculum aimed at critical thinking, the cultivation of empathy, and civic responsibility. Faculty members are encouraged to implement equitable, diverse, and socially just practices to ensure an inclusive, respectful, and empowering experience for students. Such students become advocates for positive change in their communities.
Community Engagement:
Al-Quds University participates in the development of communities to help address their social and economic challenges. The university collaborates with local schools, NGOs, and community organizations to implement outreach initiatives that widen educational, health, and other critical social resource opportunities to disadvantaged groups. Such initiatives help foster social inclusion, equality, and empowerment at the grassroots level.
Al-Quds University Advocacy:
Al-Quds University, as an institution of higher learning, advocates for inclusive public policies and frameworks aimed at reducing inequalities and enhancing social justice. The university provides researchers, advocates, and decision-makers with equitable policies that address inequalities and bolster resilience in the community. Such policies center on fiscal, wage, and social protective measures.
Capacity Building and Empowerment:
The university runs capacity-building initiatives to assist and empower socially and economically marginalized members of the community. Al-Quds University provides training workshops, as well as professional development and advocacy courses. Participants are trained to defend their rights and access educational and job opportunities.
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion on Campus:
Al-Quds University strives to promote a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community, as demonstrated by inclusive hiring, mentorship initiatives, and support services for students. Diversity entails the positive value of Bolstering creativity, cooperation, and innovation within the university community.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity and Adopting Inclusive Policies:
The university’s comprehensive policies on anti-discrimination, equal opportunity, and accessibility defend the dignity of all individuals. Facilities and support services for persons with disabilities ensures full engagement in the curriculum and extra-academic activities. The university’s inclusive practices of social equity in employment, protection, and remuneration, extend the principles of justice, equality, and human rights to all operations.
Through these concerted efforts, Al-Quds University confirms its leadership in advancing SDG 10, striving for a more inclusive, equitable, and just society in which every individual can thrive and participate in sustainable development.
Calls for reducing inequalities in income and those framed by age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, or economic and other status within a country, and for ensuring that no one is left behind. The Goal also embraces inequalities worldwide, including those concerning representation, migration, and development assistance. Goal 10 further seeks to guarantee equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including through the removal of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices and the enactment of equitable legislation, policies, and actions concerning the matter.
Al-Quds University is committed to reducing inequalities within and among countries by promoting inclusive economic growth, social equity, and equal opportunities for all. The university contributes to SDG 10 in various ways:
Education and Access to Opportunities: Al-Quds University offers equal educational opportunities to all students, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, gender, or ethnicity. To aid students in economically disadvantaged situations to gain access higher education and reach their full potential, the university provides scholarships, financial aid, and other assistance programs.
Inequality and Social Justice Research: The university analyzes phenomena and studies related to consequence inequalities and social justice. The scope of this research includes income inequality, social mobility, discrimination, and public policy studies. The work helps to understand the fundamental drivers of inequality and informs the development of strategies and policies aimed at responding to these challenges…
Curriculum and Pedagogy Inclusivity: Al-Quds University aims to foster an inclusive and supportive educational atmosphere for all attendees by constructing a pedagogy and curriculum framework that pays attention to critical thinking and social justice components and fosters social consciousness. This provides the learners the tools they need to enact the social change necessary for their communities, and their broader surroundings.
Outreach and Community Engagement: The university promotes and cultivates relationships that support the alleviation of social and economic injustices. This includes partnerships with local organizations, schools, and community-based organizations, as well as participation in community development efforts. These efforts are centered on neighborhoods that are socially and economically marginalized and seek to promote access to educational, medical, and social supportive services.
Advocacy and Policy Development: Al-Quds University advocates for the local, national, and international enactment of strategies and policies aimed at the alleviation of inequities and the provision of social justice.Capacity Building and Empowerment: The university partakes in capacity-building activities aimed at empowering people and communities that suffer from social and/or economic exclusion to remove obstacles to social and economic inclusion. This consists of training and awareness-raising social justice workshops and programs that tend to provide people with the necessary tools and knowledge to advocate for change and seize the available opportunities.
Advancing Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Al-Quds University strives to develop a diverse and inclusive campus community, wherein all students, faculty, and staff are allowed to prosper and from which a diverse and enriched educational atmosphere can be produced. The university pioneered and instituted a number of strategic initiatives to promote and advance inclusion and diversity, which mandated the revision of recruitment initiatives of the university, provision of sponsorship initiatives, and support frameworks for marginalized groups.
In summary, Al-Quds University focuses on embodying SDG 10 by observing inequality and through social justice and by implementing inclusive teaching, and through outreach and advocacy and policy efforts, community development, social empowerment and building, inc fostering campus climate. This includes equity social place:
• Equal opportunity for university stakeholder and local community
• Policy adoption, on especially fiscal, wage and social protection, and progressively achieved greater equality apace.
• Equal opportunity civil and social provision.
• Provisions access inclusive strategies.
• Anti-discrimination and harassment policy and provision available.