About NARA
نَرى (NARA) – Nurture, Access, Relief – is a youth-led initiative based in South Lebanon that empowers youth of all nationalities, including refugees, through education, protection, mental health support, and community peacebuilding.
This project aims to (1) bring statistical transparency to youth’s opinions, attitudes, feelings, and perceptions about social, cultural, political, and familial freedom of speech barriers within our society, and find what activities facilitate youth’s freedom of speech; (2) create discussion and widespread accountability by engaging the online and offline community, institutional stakeholders, and youth though an advocacy Call to Action based on our research findings, and (3) provide evidence that creative civic spaces are an integral part of our community and change negative attitudes...
دليل.فيلم هو مصدر مفتوح من تصميم بيروت دي سي وشركائها، يهدف إلى مساعدة صنّاع الأفلام العرب على إنتاج أفلام تصل إلى الجماهير على امتداد المدن العربية والعالم وتكون مراعية لمعايير الحفاظ على البيئة
daleel.film is the guide of guides: an open resource made by Beirut DC and partners to help Arab filmmakers make great socially and environmentally engaged films that reach audiences in every Arab city and the world
We Rise through Art is a handbook produced under the project with the same title in response to Beirut's explosion, highlighting activities and tools that can be adopted by trainers, coaches and facilitators with pre-adolescents and children under arts, sports and recreation.
We Play for Peace is a handbook produced under the project with the same title highlighting activities and tools that can be adopted by trainers, coaches and facilitators with pre-adolescents and children under arts, sports and recreation.
This package includes 3 maps pertaining to Lebanon's 2009 elections: - "confessional-distrib": showing the confessional geographic distribution of Lebanon's population - "election-results": showing the election results in West Bekaa/Rashaya and Metn areas. - "results&voters": showing the sectarian representation of parliamentary seats across Lebanon, the percentage of voters per electoral district, election results, and deputy representation per number of voters
MOSAIC had the pleasure and privilege to speak with activist Gopi Shankar Madurai moments after the Supreme Court in India decriminalized Section 377 of the Penal Code.
Analyzing the Impact on the Personal and Professional Development
of Young Participants at Erasmus Plus/Youth in Action/Euromed projects through “Chabibeh Sporting Club” From 2008 till 2017
Lebanon may witness a remarkable rise in the number of women serving in Parliament come May 2018 due to initiatives from women’s groups, “civil society” activists, and the substantial number of female candidates – 113 at the start of the election period. However, as this briefing paper shows, Lebanese women continue to face numerous challenges in entering government. The new electoral law passed in June 2017 does not provide women with equal opportunity to be elected, and it is yet to be seen whether it will increase female representation in Parliament. Nevertheless, the historic number of...
This report presents findings from a survey conducted from 3-11 July, 2017 with three distinct refugee groups in Lebanon: Syrian refugees; Palestine refugees from Syria; and Palestine refugees from Lebanon.
This study explores the role of community-based organizations in preparing for and responding to crisis in Lebanon. While there has been considerable work conducted on preparedness, responsiveness and recovery to crisis in Lebanon, there has been little work so far that focuses on measuring and assessing the capacities, expertise, strengths and weaknesses of local CBOS in preparing and responding to crises. Managers and decisions makers from nine different organizations were interviewed on the overall expertise gained in past conflicts since the civil war as well as their current level of...
The Gender Dictionary, published by Lebanon Support, is a practical bilingual tool, based on multidisciplinary research and consultations with local gender actors (academics, experts, activists, practitioners).
In December 2015, Chabibeh Sporting Club organized the
TOOLS FOR INTEGRATION project, funded by UNESCO, which was divided into 2 phases:
A 2 days training course (12-13 Dec 2015) that gathered 24 youth workers and leaders from different Leba-nese regions. Over these 2 days the topics of social cohesion and integration were discussed and participants reflected on traditional games they played when they were kids in order to develop together new tools and games under the themes of integration and cohesion
A 1 day camp (21 December 2015) for Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian youth during which...
Launched on 12 December 2014, the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) describes the essential elements of principled, accountable and quality humanitarian action.
About the bookletThis booklet is one of a serie of 3 booklets enclosing a collection of 180 photos, captured by young Palestinian girls and boys in Burj Chemali Camp, South Lebanon. Through using the ‘Pinhole Camera’ technique, these girls and boys captured some challenging sides of the lives of Palestinian youth through aspects of discrimination, violence and gender-based violence affecting their communities. Throughout these photos, the 3 booklets tell 3 personal stories narrated by the participants that implicate deep personal sufferings caused by community-imposed norms, traditions and...
