انطلاقًا من خبرات مؤسسية عملية، سيركّز النقاش على الدروس المستفادة بدل الاكتفاء بطرح توصيات نظرية. ويهدف إلى فتح نقاش صريح حول سبل تمكين مراكز الأبحاث المستقلة والمنصّات الإعلامية البديلة من الحفاظ على نزاهتها الفكرية وصلتها بمختلف القطاعات، في سياق واقع تمويلي متحوّل.
Grounded in institutional practice, the webinar will focus on lessons learned rather than abstract prescriptions. It aims to open a candid conversation about how independent centres can sustain both intellectual integrity and cross-sector relevance while adapting to evolving funding realities.
Bread&Net is an annual unconference that brings together activists, technologists, journalists, and policymakers to discuss and reimagine digital rights and social justice in the Arabic-speaking region. Organized by SMEX, Bread&Net offers a collaborative space for learning, strategizing, and building networks of solidarity.
The Security Management for Humanitarians training will be delivered through a combination of live facilitated sessions, group forums and engaging activities using multiple purpose-built training platforms. The course will culminate in two intense and immersive Panel Exercise (Module 6), offering a great opportunity to reinforce participants’ learning and training experience.
SMEX will host the sixth iteration of the annual regional digital rights event, Bread&Net, which will be held online on May 13, 14, and 15.
Bread&Net is an event that brings together tech experts, activists, policymakers, academics, and media practitioners from the region to discuss and address pressing issues at the intersection of technology, society, and human rights. This gathering aims to strengthen an already blooming digital rights movement in West Asia and North Africa, fostering the exchange of knowledge, research, and digital resources to sustain civil society in its fight for safe...
In this 4-hour online session you can learn about preparing and facilitating a dialogue between two people, helping them to really listen to and understand each other and identifying actions they can take. You will learn how to prepare yourself so you can be equally supporting both sides, and to create a safe space for them to have a dialogue that is not about blame and defensiveness, but about really understanding the needs of both. You will have the opportunity to practice your new learned skills and to reflect on challenges you might have faced when you tried to facilitate or mediate before...
In this 3-hour online-session we will focus on our own feelings and needs. We will try to understand what keeps us from addressing the person and why we might not be able to just close this chapter. We can learn how to deal with our emotions involved and get clarity about our needs and next steps. This session can give us insights that make it much easier to approach the other person. Or it might even happen that after this session you don’t feel the need to address the issue with the other person anymore because you have ‘sorted this out’ in yourself.
UN launched the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Sawa for Development is organizing a Zoom Webinar about" Gender Based Violence During Covid19"
This virtual event aims to bring together Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in Lebanon to:
1- Share what are different NGOs doing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
2- Map what are different NGOs able to offer to the community* during the COVID-19 pandemic through resource mobilization
3- Draft a potential collaborative response plan to the COVID-19 situation through the contribution of different participating NGOs
* Community refers to both Lebanese citizens and refugees of different nationalities.
This workshop co-organised by Lebanon Support and the Arab NGO Network for Development aims to place the localisation debate in a longer temporality of global discussions that have shaped international cooperation during the past decades, and at bringing back equal and balanced partnerships at the heart of these discussions, and initiate a process towards the adoption and enactment of a civil society charter in Lebanon.
كيف يمكننا تغيير الأسلوب القديم في جلسات التدريب والانتقال إلى فعاليات أكثر استدامة؟ ما هو النموذج الذي يجب اعتماده؟ ما هي العقبات والعوامل المساعدة لنجاح المؤسسات؟ ستجيب عبير غطاس، وهي ناشطة لبنانية، ومتخصّصة في مجال الاتصالات الرقمية وتقنية المعلومات، عن هذه السئلة وتناقش مفهوم أمن المؤسسات، وكيفية التدّرب عليه، وكيف يمكن استخدامه داخل مؤسساتنا.
إقامة ندوة توعوية وتثقيفية بالتعاون مع بلدية برج البراجنة نهار الإثنين في 29 نيسان 2019 الساعة الرابعة عصرا وذلك في قاعة المودة (الرويس) مقابل جبانة الرادوف.
Mahmoud Zeineddine, President and Co-founder of O.S.A.S (Organization for Safety And Sustainability) NGO, will be talking about "Sensor technology, practice & integrated models to safeguard power plant work-forces"
