Workshop on Advancing Conflict & Gender Sensitivity in Lebanon

Dates: August 4–6, 2025 | Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Fabrika, Achrafiyeh, BEIRUT

Overview

forumZFD invites applications for a three-day participatory training workshop under the initiative “Advancing Conflict Sensitivity and Gender Equality in Lebanon.” This workshop is designed to strengthen the knowledge and skills of individuals and organizations working in development and relief, enabling them to navigate Lebanon’s complex socio-political landscape.

Participants will engage in practical learning on two essential and interconnected areas: conflict and gender sensitivity. The training explores issues like instability, social divisions, and deeply rooted power structures, focusing on how to navigate them through sensitive approaches in programming. This ensures interventions don't reinforce existing inequalities or escalate conflicts. Instead, they'll meet the diverse needs of communities, particularly marginalized groups, and foster inclusive, safe, and equitable outcomes.

Workshop Objectives
Participants will:

• Build their capacity to analyze the context through a conflict and gender lens.
• Promote gender equality and address power imbalances in programming.
• Strengthen organizational ability to deliver conflict-aware, gender-sensitive, and equitable interventions.
• Learn to integrate conflict sensitivity and gender into all stages of the program cycle.
• Apply learning through interactive sessions, real-world scenarios, and group exercises.
• A core outcome of the workshop will be the co-development of a practical guidelines and checklist tool that supports the integration of these approaches across programming in Lebanon. This tool will be shaped by both participant input and wider organizational consultation and will be shared with attendees after the workshop.

Key Roles of Participants
As a workshop participant, you will:

• Benefit from a meaningful learning opportunity that blends theory with hands-on practice and strengthens your capacity in conflict- and gender-sensitive programming.
• Represent your organization’s perspectives and operational realities in shaping the guidance tools.
• Collaborate with peers across sectors to ensure the tool is practical and contextually relevant.
• Play a key role in circulating a short survey within your organization to gather insights from different departments, which will feed directly into the tool development.

Participant Role & Expectations
As a participant, you will:

• Apply the workshop learning to strengthen your programming approach in your organization.
• Represent your organization’s perspective and experience in the workshop discussions.
• Collaborate with peers from diverse sectors to shape relevant, context-driven tools.
• Circulate a brief post-workshop survey to key stakeholders in your organization to support broader data collection.