Events

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with UNICEF is planning to conduct Two (2) days trainings on “The Concepts of SRHR, Child Marriage and Working with Adolescents”. The training aims to introduce the participants to conceptual information around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) including key messages on puberty and menstruation, personal hygiene, and self-protection from sexual abuse, in addition to  the interlinkages between child marriage and GBV against girls and provide them with interactive tools and exercises to catalyze discussions on the topic with...

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with UNICEF is planning to conduct a Four-full day’s workshop on “How to Organize Support Groups for Women and Girls GBV Survivors or at Risk using a survivor centered approach” over November 10,11,12 &13 2015 in Beirut (at Radisson Blu Martinez Hotel). The overall objective of the workshop is to reinforce the capacity of the participants in planning and implementing support group’s sessions with women and girls survivors or at risk of violence using a survivor centered approach More specifically, the training will be providing a...

 ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with UNICEF is planning to conduct a Four-full day’s workshop on “Creative Art Techniques in Working With Women and Girls Affected by GBV” over November 9, 10, 11 & 12 in North (Florida Beach Hotel, Chekka)  The workshop aims at developing the capacities of GBV and CP service providers working within the psychosocial field; during this workshop participants will: Have a theoretical introduction regarding the objectives of  using art and creative mediums throughout the psychosocial support Practically experience a set of techniques and...

“How to Engage Front-line Workers in Combating Child Marriage” Beirut: November 4 & 5 | Beirut ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS, and in collaboration with MARSA and the Syrian League for Citizenship, is planning to conduct a Two (2) days training on “How to engage front-line workers in combating child marriage”. The training aims to introduce the participants to the inter-linkages between child marriage and GBV against girls and provide them with interactive tools and exercises to catalyze discussions on the topic with adolescent girls and their families.  ...

ABAAD – “Resource Center for Gender Equality" in collaboration with Save the Children are pleased to announce the organization of a training for coaches and trainers working with children on the toolkit “Playing for Gender Equality”. The toolkit focuses on working with children between ages 8-11 years. The workshops will be held in Beirut from 25-28 August 2015 (Venue to be confirmed at a later time). Objective of the trainings: The trainings are aimed to achieve the following objectives: -      Provide participants with the framework needed to understand gender and concepts related to it...

Besme Company is glad to announce the launch of Turkish language courses. In collaboration with Next Generation Association (Jil Al-Mostaqbal), a member of Lebanese-Turkish Forum, the courses are supported by the Embassy of Turkey in Lebanon through the lecturers coming from Turkey for this purpose. The language courses will be free of charge and open to people form Turkish origin as well as people in Lebanon. Required documents - Copy of ID - Passport photo - Full Address - Phone number - Copy of the university or vocational or school certificate if found Please send these documents to the...

Call for participation   ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS, and in collaboration with MARSA and the Syrian League for Citizenship, is planning to conduct a one (1) day training on “How to engage front-line workers in combating child marriage”. The training aims to introduce the participants to the interlinkages between child marriage and GBV against girls and provide them with interactive tools and exercises to catalyze discussions on the topic with adolescent girls and their families.   The training will encompass the following: -          Introduction to...

The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support, With the support of WAFAW, Cordially invite you to a talk on: Uprisings in the Arab world: the consecration of counterrevolutions? By:Frédéric Vairel,associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-author of Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe, PUM, 2014. With discussant:Mariam Younes, PhD candidate, University of Roskilde in Denmark Introduction by:Vincent Geisser, (IFPO/CNRS/WAFAW), “The revolution has just started” During the 2011 popular uprisings, the same thing did...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a talk on: Bordering the Middle East: concepts and challenges By:Daniel Meier,political scientist. He is a research fellow at CNRS, Grenoble, affiliated with the Euborderscapes programme. A former Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College in Oxford, he also taught at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His publications focus on Lebanese-Palestinian relationships, border issues, and politics in the Middle East. His forthcoming book is titled Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon (IB Tauris)...

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS is planning to conduct a Three-full day’s training on “How to Organize Support Groups for Women Survivors of GBV Using a Survivor-Centered Approach” on June 3rd ,4th ,5th  at Hotel Radisson SAS Blue Martinez – Beirut. The training hours will be from 9AM until 4PM.     The overall objective of the workshop is to reinforce the capacity of participants in planning and facilitating support group sessions with women survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) using a survivor-centered approach.   More specifically, the training will...

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS is planning to conduct a Three-full day’s training on “How to Organize Support Groups for Women Survivors of GBV Using a Survivor-Centered Approach” on June 3rd ,4th ,5th  at Hotel Radisson SAS Blue Martinez – Beirut. The training hours will be from 9AM until 4PM. To express interest, kindly fill the Participant Questionnaire using the following link:http://goo.gl/forms/qPCWug9y3S Deadline for registration is Thursday, May 28, 2015.Participant Questionnaires will be screened by an expert committee including the trainer to...

Has your organization, service institution, or government agency ever had difficulty recruiting volunteers? or had a bad experience with your volunteers? or with volunteer/staff relations? Are you flooded with requests by students who want to fulfill service requirements or companies that want to do corporate volunteer projects, but you don't know what to do with them ... or why you should bother? Many of the problems related to volunteering could be avoided if organizations had a better idea of how to prepare for, recruit, place, orient, train, and otherwise manage their volunteers.  Two...

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) recommends the following event which is the third of its kind and organized by CoVisionMENA (important note: This is not an FES event!): Lebanon and the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are facing huge humanitarian challenges – the support of many organisations and helpers is urgently needed. Thank you for your most valuable contribution! But having to deal with the fates and stories of many desperate in addition to the challenges of overcoming cultural barriers, working in multidisciplinary teams and negotiating with donors can be...

The Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) cordially invites you to The launching of: The Way Forward to Safeguard Water in Lebanon: National Water Integrity Risk Assessment Report With an opening statement byH.E. Arthur Nazarian,Minister of Energy and Water, Lebanon Follow link for agendahttps://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Documents/events/2014-2015/20150515_Water_Re…;

The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support Cordially invite you to a talk on: Trajectories of young Arab and European Islamists: the inevitable jihadist radicalisation? By: Mr Mohamed-Ali Adraoui is a political and social scientist working on contemporary International Relations, the Islamic World, Political Islam and Salafist currents. He completed his PhD in Sciences Po Paris in November 2011. His dissertation, “Beyond Discourse, Salafism in France, Socialization or Rupture of a Social Phenomenon?”, is an analysis of the emergence of a new face of Islam in France...

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) recommends the following event which is organized by CoVisionMENA (important note: This is not an FES event!): Lebanon and the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are facing huge humanitarian challenges – the support of many organisations and helpers is urgently needed. Thank you for your most valuable contribution! But having to deal with the fates and stories of many desperate in addition to the challenges of overcoming cultural barriers, working in multidisciplinary teams and negotiating with donors can be very draining for the...

The Lebanese Association for History, the Centre for LebaneseStudies, and the Department of History and Archeology at theAmerican University of Beirut cordially invite you to a lecture The Strife for the History Curriculum:The Case of Lebanon and England Presenters:Dr. Christine Counsell, University of CambridgeHistory Teachers as Curriculum Makers: the Shaping ofEngland's National Curriculum for History, 1991 to 2014 Dr. Simon Abdel Massih, Lebanese UniversityThe Making of the Lebanese History Curriculum in Lebanonduring the Transitional Period March 26 ,2015 from 4:00 to 6:00 pmCollege...

يدعوكم معهد عصام فارس للسياسات العامة والشؤون الدولية الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت  الى ندوة موضوعها الجمهوريّة ورئاستها: بين ممارسة الأمس والتطلّع إلى الغديلقيها فخامة الرئيس العماد ميشال سليمان https://www.facebook.com/events/865232730213626/ 

نقاش كبير يدور حول نضال المثليات و المثليين في العالم و حول الاسباب التي تمنع هذا النضال ان يجتمع في طريق واحد، متى بدات هذه الحركات تفترق و تتصادم؟ و ما هي الاسباب الرئيسية التي جعلت من هذا النضال منفصل؟ هل يرى الناشطين و الناشطات انه من الضروري ان يتوحد هذا النضال؟ تدعوكم جمعية موزاييك لحضور جلسة حوار لمناقشة هذه الاسباب و خاصة في ما يتعلق في التجربة اللبنانية، يدير هذه الجلسة شربل ميدع في مقر جمعية موزاييك يوم الخميس ٥ آذار/ مارس الساعة السادسة.رقم الهاتف : 01/395445العنوان : بيروت-بدارو- شارع سامي الصلح- بناية نادين غريب- الطابق الآول The world is currently witnessing a widespread...

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) cordially invites you to a panel discussion on: The Impact of the Syrian Crisis on Neighboring Countries with Dr. Şaban Kardaş, Dr. Ferhat Pirinççi and Mr. Oytun Orhan of the Middle East Strategic Research Center (ORSAM) – Turkey Dr. Şaban Kardaş is the President of ORSAM and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. He is Assistant Editor to the quarterly journal ‘Perceptions’ and writes analyses for the German Marshal Fund's on Turkey...