Events

Capacity building is fundamentally about improving effectiveness at personal and organizational levels.The program focuses on the advancement of the civil society in Lebanon and the region. Participants are provided with working knowledge of managerial, financial, and vast organizational aspects of non-profits in society. Accordingly, two primary disciplines are adopted, the organizational planning for NGOs and the personal dynamics for the team members as agents of change.

This event constitutes an opportunity for attendees to identify like-minded organisations and conceive potential collaborations, in order to strengthen civil society cooperation and synergies.

ARC is a regional non-profit independent organization founded in 1988. ARC’s mission is to build on the capacities of each person and on people’s experience in order to develop knowledge and translate rights into reality. It adopts a holistic and integrated approach to development and practices collective work through consultation, networking, and partnerships.

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...

تعلن جمعية النداء الإنساني عن إطلاق مشروع ” قادة المستقبل“ من خلال إقامة دورات تدريبية تسلسلية مجانية لتطوير مفهوم القيادة لفئة الشباب (إناث وذكور) العاملين والمتطوعين في المؤسسات الأهلية في المخيمات الفلسطينية في منطقة صيدا وضواحيها

This event aims to present all the mappings in the Conflict Analysis Project’s data centre, and their usability in research, advocacy, programming, and policy.

During the event, Lebanon Support and forumZFD will present this mapping, as well as the infographic and key findings of the report developed based on the database. The presentation will be followed by a panel intervention of a range of actors from civil society, education, and policy making who will share their insights and experiences on initiatives addressing the past in Lebanon. [Names of panelists will be announced soon]

Competent business owners continually seek ways to upgrade and expand their companies, whether through re-organization, outsourcing, franchising, merging, or even forming partnerships. This practical & interactive workshop enables small to medium-sized business entrepreneurs to expand their business via the needed knowledge, resources, and networking opportunities.

The AMIDEAST Entrepreneur Institute’s “Start Your Own Business” workshop will start on Thursday, September 6, 2018.

Youth Training Bootcamp covering 6 topics, 12 trainers in 1 location. Topics covers: Leadership, Negotiation Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, People Management and Body Language. Each workshops is 1 full day, all taking place in parallel. Participants can register for 1 of the above mentioned topics, seats are limited. For Registration: https://goo.gl/gack1y

Today's successful managers are bound to adapt and improve their organizational performance by emphasizing their key individual leadership capabilities as well as shaping their teams’ development skills.

This session will introduce the open source, free platform KoboToolbox (www.kobotoolbox.org) which can be used for online and offline data collection. Kobo ToolBox is built on ODK (Open Data Kit), a suite of tools that allows data collection using mobile devices and data submission to an online server, even without an Internet connection or mobile carrier service at the time of data collection.

This course covers monitoring and evaluation theory (including needs assessment, program theory assessment, evaluating the processes of a social and development initiative, outcomes assessment, impact assessment, and assessing the efficiency of a social initiative). The course also discusses the formulation of evaluation questions, data collection, analysis and reporting, and provides students with the opportunity to analyze case studies of actual assessments of initiatives carried out in the field. Finally, the end of course project allows students to demonstrate mastery of the general...

Introduction
Engaging with other people can be confusing, even at the best of times where communication is largely through text, and can easily be misunderstood. So what etiquette should you use in email to make the recipient feel comfortable, and to make sure you look professional?

In this context, the main purpose of etiquette is to show consideration for others. It provides anchor points to prove you're on the same page, and at least have some mutual understanding. In other words, etiquette is a subtle way of building rapport. 

Increasingly, it is being recognized that volunteering is a valuable resource and should be managed and supported as effectively as possible. By the end of this course, participants are expected to be able to; recruit and manage volunteers, develop policies and procedures for volunteers and identifying the volunteer motives, strengths and weaknesses.

 

Recently, project management has been increasingly changing from a systemic tools approach to a more integrated, holistic, contextual, and behavioral discipline. In fact, at a societal level, project management principles are being used and implemented everywhere throughout the public, private, industrial and non-for-profit sectors. NGO’s in particular are increasingly relying on professional project and program managers to drive complex projects that are critical to the organization’s success in implementing strategic management initiatives, and in using/reusing efficiently and effectively...

This course is targeted for NGOs

The Business Leadership Program introduces participants to various leadership skills and practices. It enables participants to examine the necessity of leadership, the effective tools to employ it, and the means of positively influencing others. The Program differentiates between managers and leaders and notes the significance of each to ensure success. 

This comprehensive course offers participants with the fundamentals related to the writing of a good and persuasive concept paper. It helps grant seekers deal with the very techniques which enable them submit a convincing document by addressing the real problem and exploring the necessary solutions pertaining to the funding source. 

 

Course Schedule:

Date: Every Monday & Wednesday, from February 19 till March 5

Time: 6:00 PM till 9:00 PM

Location: LAU- Beirut Campus

 

Call 01 786 456 ext. 1964 or email ceppq@lau.edu.lb for more details

The Lebanese Sociological Association (LSA, supported by the International Sociological Association), in collaboration with Jadaliyya/ASI, Lebanon Support, and the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at American University of Beirut (AUB), is organising a two-day workshop on the topic of social movements in the Arab region, with a special focus on two countries that did not directly witness the Arab Uprisings:  Lebanon and Iraq.