Advocacy Public Private Dialogue Toolkit
Language(s): English, Arabic, French
Published: 2011
The goal of this toolkit is to provide advocates with a practical guide to create and manage advocacy campaigns. It also focuses on skill building in public-private dialogue as a means for promoting and implementing the campaigns and strategic planning skills including monitoring and evalution, management and budget creation. An example of a Public- Private Dialogue Business Plan is provided in English.
Women's Rights in Kuwaiti Personal Status Law and Bahraini Judicial Rulings (Practical)
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2011
The Practical Part of the Women's Rights in Kuwaiti Personal Status Law and the Bahraini Shari'a Judicial Rulings documents two national campaigns on women's rights and family law launched by civil society in the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Bahrain. This portion also places the campaigns within the framework of the larger movement for family law reform in each country as well as advocacy strategies and lessons learned for women’s rights activists in the Gulf region and beyond.
Board Composition and Effectiveness
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation offers a list of factors and criteria a company should look for when putting together a board of directors. The checklist format allows readers to identify what criteria they do and do not meet.
Investigative Journalism: Conducting Interviews
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation gives tips for conducting interviews. It covers different modes of interviews, including opinion, background and detail, and describes how and when each should be used.
Best Practice Guide for Voluntary and Non-Profit Management
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This manual covers best practices for operating a non-profit, including how to create a strategic plan, how to motivate new volunteers, how to apply for grants, and how to utilize mass communication and the media. It includes examples of documents and case studies.
Developing Your Business Plan
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum focuses on development a business plan. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Investigative Journalism: Research and Writing
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation focuses on researching and writing journalistic stories. It includes detailed instructions on how to plan for producing an investigative news story.
Investigative Journalism
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation covers various topics in investigative journalism, including research, investigating, editing and publishing investigative news articles. It also includes suggested templates for formatting news articles in a descriptive, explanatory or narrative style.
Investigative Journalism: Social Media Platforms
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation gives an overview of various social media platforms on the web, such as Facebook and Blogger. It includes practical instructions on how to do effective Google searches and how to upload videos to YouTube.
Operations of CTC
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum provides information about operation of community technology centers (CTCs). It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Bahraini Family Code "First Part"
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2011
The Art of Producing News
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation covers aspects of news production, from research to publishing. It includes details of how to format news articles and what questions to ask (who, what, when, etc.). It also addresses larger questions of what is "newsworthy" and theories of the role of the media.
Introductory Elements
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum gives an overview of introductory elements for the program. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Professional Development Training
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This is an extensive curriculum that includes details for several modules, including team development, interpersonal communication, problem solving, decision making, leadership, conflict management and more. Each section includes an outline of the session, session preparation, learning objectives, materials and supplies needed, setup, potential issues and alternative delivery, as well as detailed session outlines and discussion notes. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Instructor Attendance Sheet
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This template is an instructor attendance sheet. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Instructor Program Agenda Template
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document provides a template for planning the training sessions and times. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Description of CTC
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document is a description of community technology centers (CTCs). It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
The Communication Process
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation covers interpersonal communication in a broad sense. It explains interpersonal communications in terms of messenger, message and audience, and how all three relate to each other.
Optional Add-Ons
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document provides information about optional add-ons. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Financials
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum focuses on financials. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Editing Your Business Plan Document
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum gives detail about editing business plan documents. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Professional Development Curriculum Wrap-Up
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This wrap-up of the professional development curriculum gives session at a glance and information about session preparation and session delivery. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Professional Development Training Instructor Notes
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document contains tools for the management of the Professional Development course, as well as background material on facilitation skills that is especially important for technically skilled people new to the delivery of participatory, experiential training. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Professional Development Training Curriculum Introduction
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This introduction to the professional development curriculum gives session at a glance and information about session preparation and session delivery. This is part of WIT's Professional Development Skills Workshops.
Investigative Journalism: Writing for the Internet
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation focuses on effective writing for the Internet. It goes over several styles for effectively communicating information in a brief format, which is preferred by online readers.
Business Planning for Sustainability: Action Plan Template
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document is a template for community technology center (CTC) action plans. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Business Plan Glossary
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This is a business plan glossary. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Terms & Definitions
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document is a glossary that provides terms and definitions. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
Introduction to Business Planning for Sustainability for Partner Organizations
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
These documents are from the Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
All documents are listed below "Special Focus" lower on this page. To go through the documents sequentially, click the links at the bottom of this page.
IT Training Market
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This curriculum focuses on the IT training market. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.