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 Participants will engage in guided group work to critically examine outdated...

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 posits the necessity to rethink social policy in the SWANA region, and more specifically social protection, based on the principle of universalism (versus the notion of targeting). It will discuss to which extent the adequate and rights based institutionalisation of social protection can be perceived as the pillar of a social contract between the state and its citizens, and will reflect on the efficiency of a citizenship paradigm versus a charity and targeting based one.

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.