This paper was produced by ANND and Christian Aid and contains five main sections: “Executive Summary: a crisis of multiple dimensions; the threat of explosive vulnerabilities and increasing insecurities”, “Vulnerability to poverty: the key challenges faced by the Arab region”
The fourth National Human Development Report, “Toward a Citizen’s State”, addresses citizenship in Lebanon through three principle perspectives: citizenship and sectarian state, socio-economic citizenship and citizenship and culture and education.
Parliamentary elections of 2009 and the year 2008 in review. The evenings of tuesday and Wednesday, April 7/8 marked the last day to register as a candidate for the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections scheduled on Sunday June 7, 2009.
مذكرات للباحثين و صناع القرار #1 | تشرين الثاني 2008
شباب مصريون يعيدون اكتشاف المشاركة المدنية، ويؤسسون لأشكال جديدة من الخدمة العامبربارة إبراهيم
يمثل جيل الحركات الشبابية المصرية الحالي أكبر المجموعات الشبابية التي تخوض معركة اثبات الوجود في العالم العربي. أدواتهم تتراوح بين الخدمات الاجتماعية التقليدية، و تقنيات الاتصال الجديدة في سبيل مواجهة الحظر المفروض عليهم من قبل الأنظمة السياسية والعائلية. وهذه الحركات هي التجربة التي سلطت الضوء عليها الدكتورة بربارة ابراهيم ومجموعة أخرى من الباحثين في مصر
ويسود في عالمنا ”اجتاه لمعاملة الشباب وقضايا الشباب بطريقة جد موعظية، ومبسطة،“ بحسب إبراهيم،...
Research and Policy Memo #1 | November 2008
Young Egyptians reinvent civic engagement, leading to new forms of public serviceBarbara Ibrahim
As the largest ever cohort of young people in the Arab World struggles to find its place in society, youth are forging arenas for public participation that draw upon new media and traditional social service. Initiated by young people, this movement responds to the exclusion they feel from family and state structures that block their public participation. It is a new brand of youth movements that Dr. Barbara Ibrahim and other researchers have identified in...
This national survey provides a vital statistical database on the demographic and the educational status in Lebanon; the residential fact and the economic activity of the individuals; the health insurance, the migration, the family’s income and the aid received during the war
“Moukhtar” booklet provides guidelines for municipality leaders and mayors, on how to effectively implement practices and procedures that would benefit the local community, whether in regular daily activities or in conflict situations.
تقوم الحكومة اللبنانية بمعالجة آثار العدوان الاسرائيلي المدمر من خلال العمل على تعزيز صمود الأهالي، وخلق آلية فعالة لتثبيتهم في قراهم وبلداتهم عبر إعادة بناء ما تهدم.
List of Social Development Centers affiliated to the Ministry of Social Affairs, their contact info and status following the July 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon.
The proposal is to build a network from existing institutions and bodies already present on the ground with SAMIDOUN, and to build social centers working on various identified issues.
This reference book has been prepared within the framework of the NGO Resource and Support Unit, The Unit was established in 2003 and is currently working to build the capacity of NGOs by facilitating their acquisition of resources and the delivery of training programs.
This reference book includes chapters on resources, legal and integral frameworks, and the constitutional structure of NGOs. It aims at contributing to reinforce the role of civil society in the economic and social development of Lebanon.
هذا الكتاب هو دراسة قامت بها عزّة شرارة بيضون سنة2002 ، و تهدف الى رصد بعض خصائص العمل الاجتماعي النسائي في لبنان في الزمن الحديث، زمن ما بعد الحرب اللبنانية، و ذلك للبحث في مساهمة النساء الناشطات في المنظمات غير الحكومية التي تشكلت في التسعينات.
The forum was held less than two months after 9/11. The forum included general discussions as well as teach-ins on specific issues related to globalization, the WTO, and the challenges in the Arab world under the current world order.
None of the English-language literature on the civil war in particular, or Lebanon in general, emphasizes civil society and public sphere theory in analyzing the historical and social forces which informed the emergence of modern Lebanon, and gave rise to and sustained the civ
