Resources

Learn2Volunteer is a free multilingual e-learning and mentoring platform designed to strengthen the skills, knowledge, and engagement of young volunteers. The platform provides interactive online courses, mentoring opportunities, digital badges, and certificates that support volunteers throughout their learning and volunteering journey. It covers topics such as leadership, communication, project management, fundraising, digital literacy, active citizenship, volunteering, and community engagement. Developed through a collaboration of organizations from Greece, Italy, Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan...

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...

Masar Association's  Annual Report for 2020 presents a summary of Masar’s activities over the past year, including profile, programmes, projects implemented, success stories, as well as partners and donors.

Explore the brochure to learn more about Daleel Madani; the civil society network, its features and how to use and benefit from the platform.

Organization Work Plan and membership registration for the years 2020-2021

هل تغيّرت، أو تخلخلت، الصورة النمطية للمرأة في الواقع الراهن في سورية؟ هذا هو السؤال المؤسس لهذه الدراسة التي تسعى فيها الباحثة لرصد تحولات المكانة الاجتماعية للمرأة من خلال متابعتها لمدى المشاركة النسوية في الحياة العامة، في سورية. تركز الباحثة على فترة الأزمة الحالية متسائلة «هل يمكن أن يشكل انخراط المرأة السورية في الأزمة، موالاةً أو معارضة، معبراً إلى إنجاز بقية حقوقها... أم يزيد من معاناتها؟

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.

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...

Working Paper | February 2014
The Dilemma of Human Rights In Lebanese Electoral Laws by Elie Al-Hindy
This study concludes with a number of recommendations with respect to the issues that need to be introduced to the debate and that can strengthen advocacy efforts by the different stakeholders involved. Reflecting on all of the above, and in light of the current political realities in Lebanon, including present sectarian demographics and political structure, the study concludes that the standards imposed on the new electoral law is impossible to meet, as no law, which this study has reviewed...

For the first time in nine years the Lebanese political scene is mobilising for elections.

Ruwwad Al-Tanmeya is a regional non-profit community development organization that works with disenfranchised communities through education, youth volunteerism and grassroots organizing. Our approach encompasses an array of programs and projects that, together, strengthen initiative and facilitate redress to problems prioritized by members of the community. We believe in Embracing pluralism, Respecting diversity and Promoting equity wherever we operate.

Ruwwad, which spans today Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine, and operates through a strong network of partnerships with civil society and...

This issue of Tatimma focuses on the question of civil rights and liberties in Lebanon. Whilst it is usually considered that civil freedoms in Lebanon are light-years ahead of other Arab countries. Yet this state of liberties appears to be more a facade for a discriminatory system which limits the liberties of Lebanese citizens, specifically Lebanese women, refugees, foreign workers to name a few.

Today, women in Lebanon are fighting for equal access to opportunities and rights without prejudice against their gender, their expectations and their careers.

Although Lebanon is sometimes considered as the only democratic country in the Arab region with a free political environment and electoral system, the situation of women has not been strengthened enough for them to have a role on an equal footing with men. Lebanese women form a majority of 53% and they are actively participating in all aspects of Lebanese society. They enjoy equal constitutional rights with men and have the right to vote, hold public office, elect and be elected in municipal councils. Yet, this diagnosis, elaborated by the Committee for the Follow-Up on Women’s Issues (CFUWI)...

This book is part of a project which published three books: "TOT Citizenship Handbook" and the theoretical section from "Citizenship Handbook" in Arabic and English, issued by “bait elmouwaten” for Publishing and Distribution, and with the support of the Dutch organization “HIVOS”.

هذا الدليل هو جزء من مشروع تم خلاله نشر ثلاث كتب: دليل المواطنة باللغتين العربية و الإنجليزية و دليل عمل الورش التدريبية حول المواطنة، ولقد صدرت عن دار “بيت المواطن“ للنشر والتوزيع، وبدعم من مؤسسة Hivos الهولندية.

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...

استأثر سؤال الهوية وما يتشارك معه من مصطلحات أخرى كالمواطنة والتعددية الثقافية والديمقراطية وغير ذلك، بنصيب لا يستهان به في حقل الدراسات السياسية والاجتماعية والثقافية، بدءاً بالنصف الثاني من القرن العشرين وصولاً إلى قرننا الحالي. وفي هذا الوقت بالذات، بات سؤال الهوية أكثر إلحاحاً وراهنية، حيث تمور منطقتنا العربية بانتفاضاتهاوثوراتها وأسئلتها. يحاول بحثنا هذا تسليط الضوء على مفهوم الهوية وتقاطعاته في بعض حقول السياسة والاجتماع وعلم النفس. وإن ما ينطبق على الكثير من المفاهيم والمصطلحات، من حيث تنوع التعريفات .والمقاربات، ينطبق بدوره على مفهوم الهوية وسؤالها، وهذا ما يجعل الخوض في غمار هذا...