Events

In today’s rapidly evolving development landscape, NGOs are required to adapt, innovate, and rethink traditional models of service delivery, partnership, and sustainability. This workshop is designed specifically for civil society leaders and teams who seek to strengthen their organizations’ relevance, responsiveness, and impact. Through structured and unconventional ideation processes, participants will explore practical tools and frameworks that stimulate innovation within NGO programs, operations, and strategy. Participants will engage in guided group work to critically examine outdated...

Moderators: - Zeina Mohanna, PhD, Board Member Amel Association, Professor AUB - Bettina Bastian, PhD, Professor USEK - Nadia El Nemr, PhD, Associate Professor ESAM - Zouhour El Abiad, PhD, BERA Regional Coordinator Organizing Committee: Hani El Chaarani, PhD Marc Audi, PhD Zouhour El Abiad, PhD Daniele Khalifeh, PhD Zeina Mehanna, PhD Nadia El Nemr, PhD Heba Badawy, PhD Lea Starck, ESAM Speakers: - Kinda Baydoun - Manager of channels and distribution at Veeam software, United Arab Emirates - Elisabeth Eichhorn - Senior Entrepreneur Account Executive at IFundWomen - Josephine...

This webinar aims to address vaccine inequity in the MENA region, and will look into challenges specific to local contexts.

The webinar aims at discussing social justice and social contracts in the Middle East, a region that is also witnessing one of the largest-scale displacements in history. It will reflect on aid interventions, by exploring the formulation of (new) social contracts, based on greater social inclusion of non-nationals, for the provision of social justice for all.

تهدف هذه الندوة إلى تسليط الضوء على تجارب وتحدّيات سياقية مختلفة تواجهها بلدان المنطقة، مع التركيز على الجهد المشترك الذي يمكن أن تبذله المجتمعات المدنية والاختصاصيون/ات والخبراء/خبيرات والناشطون/ات للدفع باتّجاه إرساء نهج قائم على الحقوق في جدول أعمال السياسة العامّة.

The objective of the webinar is to shed light on various contextual experience and challenges countries of the region are facing, and how civil society actors, scholars, experts and activists, can jointly push forward a right based narrative and policy agenda.

Through this experimental exchange we want to bring those together who drive or support participatory change processes, conflict transformation, and empowerment in communities. We want to explore the issues, strengths and challenges that unite all of us who work on participatory community empowerment. من خلال هذا التبادل التجريبي، نود أن نجمع المعنيون الذين يقودون أو يدعمون عمليات التغيير التشاركية، تحويل النزاعات، التمكين، والدمج في المجتمعات المحلية. نريد أن نستكشف القضايا والمصالح ونقاط القوة والتحديات التي توحدنا جميعا في العمل على تمكين المجتمع التشاركي.

The Gender in Development and Humanitarian Assistance (GDHA) Certificate is a continuing education program designed for students, practitioners, and policymakers. The program addresses gender issues in development and humanitarian settings. GDHA innovatively incorporates academic knowledge with high-level expertise to create a new standard in gender education for development and humanitarian professionals. The standards are in-line with internationally-recognized practices. Moreover, the program builds local capacity to address local issues, building a cadre of motivated professionals in the...

A Roundtable to discuss the NHRI appointments and the process of its formation and the subsequent steps

The consociational system as well as kinship-based politics have not allowed circulation of political elites, limiting the entry and participation of newcomers and women to the political scene in Lebanon. The 2018 Lebanese parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place on 6 May after nearly a decade since the last time they were held.