Maktabat MEPI Library
Training Resources for Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa

Published: 2017
Organization: PartnersGlobal
Project: Support for Training, Advocacy and Networking for Development (STAND) program
English Arabic
This manual provides an introduction to volunteerism and volunteer management for organizations interested in becoming more sustainable. It is one of a series of 13 manuals that was developed as part of the STAND program, which aims to build the capacity of non-profit organizations in Kuwait and the region.

Published: 2016
Organization: Pal Think
Project: Towards Becoming an Entrepreneurial Society through Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Gaza
Arabic
This training manual provides a definition for negotiation, compares negotiating positions to interests, outlines basic rules and highlights steps for each phase of negotiation.

Published: 2016
Organization: Pal Think
Project: Towards Becoming an Entrepreneurial Society through Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Gaza
Arabic
This training manual provides an overview of mediation, including definition and explanation of attitudes and non-alignment in the context of mediation. It outlines eight skills and five steps for mediation and describes the principles and ethics of the mediation process.

Published: 2016
Organization: Pal Think
Project: Towards Becoming an Entrepreneurial Society through Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Gaza
Arabic
This presentation highlights obstacles to women’s political participation, including media constraints, and provides suggestions to develop women’s role. It focuses on Palestinian political life and participation in decision-making and also more broadly on international charters and covenants, including: civil and political rights, elimination of racial discrimination, elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW), and increasing women’s participation in peacekeeping and conflict resolution initiatives.

Published: 2016
Organization: International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
Project: Regional Assistance Program (RAP)
English Arabic
This curriculum guide includes four modules: citizenship, critical thinking, advocacy and media messaging, and digital advocacy. A training-of-trainers agenda is included for a four-day workshop, along with detailed module descriptions, activities, applied learning and debrief notes.

Published: 2016
Organization: Catholic Relief Services
Project: MENTOR project
English

The manual is intended to provide readers with a tool to design projects and write proposals. The approach is meant to build on CRS values, be locally appropriate, coherent and achieve positive results. It was produced and published in 2004 with financial support from Food For Peace. It was followed by the Project Management and Implementation Guide, also available in the Library.

Published: 2016
Organization: Catholic Relief Services
Project: MENTOR project
English Arabic
This guide describes how civil society organizations can improve their organizational systems and structures. It provides information on how to develop or improve business processes and highlights the Holistic Organizational Capacity Assessment Instrument (HOCAI). It also focuses on governance, strategic planning, finance, procurement, and information and communication technology (ICT).

Published: 2016
Organization: Catholic Relief Services
English

This manual was written to respond to CRS field requests for more support on project management. It follows ProPack I, Project Design and Proposal Guidance and builds on the simple concepts and methodologies introduced in that volume. Together, the two manuals are meant to provide basic project information and tools from the early design stage through the close of the project. The next manual in the series is ProPack III - The CRS Project Package: A Guide to Creating a SMILER M&E System.

Published: 2016
Organization: Catholic Relief Services
Project: MENTOR project
English

This guide provides information on M&E systems, focusing on the SMILER system: Simple Measurement of Indicators for Learning and Evidence-based Reporting. It is the third in the Project Package (ProPack) series written to raise the quality of CRS work in relief and development projects. ProPack I provided a tool to design projects and write proposals, and ProPack II provided basic project implementation guidance.

Published: 2015
Organization: Freedom House
Project: Working Together for Strong Communities
Arabic
This presentation aims to raise participants’ standards and skills in advocacy. It describes the characteristics of advocacy, highlights time action plans, and explains how the process of lobbying and advocacy differ from other types of intervention in community issues.

Published: 2015
Organization: Freedom House
Project: Working Together for Strong Communities
French
This presentation describes how to facilitate and manage public meetings. It highlights tips for effective facilitation, characteristics of good facilitators and how to make appropriate decisions during facilitation.

Published: 2015
Organization: Freedom House
Project: Working Together for Strong Communities
Arabic
This presentation focuses on the meaning of facilitation, including key skills, when the different skills should be used and how the learning process supports facilitation.

Published: 2015
Organization: International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
Project: Social Media | Social Action for Good Governance
Arabic
This guide highlights human rights culture and history in the last century, the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, and practical steps to increase human rights and legal awareness in communities. It describes how to build groups of activists who support human rights and strategies for encouraging communities, especially youth, to prevent human rights violations. Several examples are provided, such as the issue of human trafficking and how activists found supporters, pressured decision makers and influenced communities.

Published: 2015
Organization: Pal Think
Project: Towards Becoming an Entrepreneurial Society through Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Gaza
Arabic
This training manual focuses on problem solving, providing training objectives, a detailed agenda, needed materials for a workshop and criteria for selecting appropriate problem-solving solutions. It includes notes for the instructor for a guided intervention and optional discussion.

Published: 2015
Organization: ADWAR
Arabic
This training guide focuses on promotion of advocacy skills for Palestinian women who have been divorced and their participation in public life. It highlights gender needs and roles, and provides suggestions for advocacy and campaign planning, as well as working against the stigma of divorce. Training exercises are included in the appendices.