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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 Participants will engage in guided group work to critically examine outdated...

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.

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 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.

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.