The three CS Guidance notes cover 3 essential areas; Getting started with CS in Lebanon; CS in Project Design Cycle; and CS Procurement, Recruitment, and accountability.
إنّ فهم الموارد المالية الخاصّة بمنظمات المجتمع المدني هو أمر أساسي لضمان اتخاذ قرارات صائبة في أنشطة منظمتكم وضمان توافق عملياتكم وآلياتكم المالية مع الخطوط التوجيهية والمبادئ المالية والمحاسبية، كما يمكن في نهاية المطاف أن يوفر لكم الدعم في ضمان استدامة منظمتكم بصورة عامّة.
يشكّل هذا الدليل عن الادارة المالية أداةً أساسية لمساعدة المحاسبين والمدراء الماليين في اتخاذ قرارات مدروسة في ما يخصّ إدارة منظمات المجتمع المدني.
Understanding your Civil Society Organisation’s finances is essential to guarantee proper decision-making in your organisation’s activities and to ensure that your financial operations and processes are in line with the financial and accounting guidelines and principles. It can also ultimately support the sustainability of your organisation as a whole.
This Financial Management Guide is a basic tool to assist accountants and financial managers with making well-in- formed decisions regarding CSO management.
يقدّم هذا الدليل أدوات تسهّل عملية صياغة مقترحات المشاريع والحصول على التمويل، من خلال توضيح ما يتم الاستناد إليه في أغلب المنظمات المانحة، مع الأخذ في الاعتبار الفوارق البسيطة بين مانح وآخر. يتألف هذا الدليل من قسمين لكلٍ منهما أهميته الخاصة. في القسم الأول، يتم التركيز على مفهوم المنح المالية، وكيفية تحديد حاجتنا للتمويل، وكيفية اختيار الشريك الممول لهذا المشروع أو ذاك، وكيفية استهداف الشريك وإقناعه بالفكرة المطروحة. أما القسم الثاني، فيستعرض المراحل الضرورية لبناء مقترح مشروع متكامل، والمحاور الأساسية التي يجب العمل عليها وآلية صياغة الأفكار والأهداف والنتائج المتوقعة، وصولاً إلى صياغة...
This guide provides you with the tools needed to facilitate the proposal writing process and securing funds, by explaining the criteria upon which most donors base their decisions to provide funding, while taking into account the subtle differences between one donor and another. In the first section, we focus on defining the concept of funding grants, in addition to how to identify our funding needs, how to select funding partners for a said project, and how to target partners and persuade them of the proposed idea. In the second section, we present the phases needed to formulate a...
Refugee protection is inherently political. While international law and values inevitably influence governments’ decisions about how to respond to refugees, so too do power and interests.
This report presents findings from a survey conducted from 3-11 July, 2017 with three distinct refugee groups in Lebanon: Syrian refugees; Palestine refugees from Syria; and Palestine refugees from Lebanon.
This policy brief analyses the socio-political implications of the so-called October policies, and suggests legislative, political, and practical measures to improve the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. It also aims to inform policy formulation regarding Syrian refugees from a human rights-based perspective, while discussing modalities for enhanced programming at the civil society level.
This policy brief is the fourth publication of a research project investigating the social effects of political and legal measures on Syrian refugees’ daily lives. The brief is based on a consultative...
This document is an adaption of a speech delivered on May 12, 2015 at the launch of a report by the Syrian Justice and Accountability Center (SJAC) entitled ”A Step Towards Justice: Current Accountability Options for Crimes under International Law Committed in Syria.” The repo
This working paper seeks to document and analyse collaboration mechanisms between local authorities and humanitarian actors in addressing the Syrian refugee crisis in urban and peri-urban settings in Lebanon.
The concept of resilience offers a framework that facilitates cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary dialogue and pushes us to examine systems that influence complex situations.
Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, 11 million people have been internally displaced or have fled to neighboring states. This has put an incredible strain on the hosting societies, particularly in Lebanon,Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.
This paper was prepared by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) as a background paper contributing to the Arab Sustainable Development Report. It focuses on gender equality as a core element to achieve sustainable development.
The private sector has long been a major contributor to humanitarian action. At the community level, businesses frequently use their materials and resources to aid people affected by crises. As local markets recover and supply chains are repaired, crisis-affected people are once again able to access basic goods and, in some cases, resume livelihoods. Large national, regional and multinational firms are also closely involved in supporting humanitarian objectives, whether indirectly, by resuming operations in crisis affected areas, or directly, by providing cash and in kind donations of goods or...
The humanitarian aid system is growing and expanding, and so surely its capacity to meet these challenges should also be growing.
Yet despite the enormous resources, in the more complex, less high-profile and difficult contexts, MSF teams in the field have seen that humanitarian responses to displacement emergencies have not occurred in a timely and effective way. This is especially the case in conflict areas.
These observations have prompted MSF to conduct this review, to better understand how the humanitarian system is responding to acute displacement emergencies. The review is based on...
