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

This guide contains six chapters related to civic education activities for developing the Yemeni Constitution. This includes 1) basic principles and legal reference for the constitutional development process in Yemen; 2) the importance of awareness raising; 3) the role of constitutional society organizations; 4) the facilitation process and duties of community facilitators in constitutional outreach; 5) guidelines for community facilitators in discussions management; and 6) appendices.

This guide highlights strategies for civil society organizations to select appropriate issues for advocacy campaigns and gives tips for ensuring effective communication with policymakers. It also focuses on the implementation of advocacy campaigns, including strategies and tools for analyzing and prioritizing issues.

This brief handout accompanies the guide on strategic planning for NGOs and includes an exercise for participants to consider reasons for strategic planning, using SWOT analysis and a selection of tools.

This handout for workshop participants compares the structure of organizations to a pyramid, outlining the elements of organization structure, types of jobs, authority and position. It also gives an overview of organizational development (OD) theory, including the OD matrix, techniques, role negotiation and policies.

This brief slide presentation on leadership highlights features of strong leaders and leadership practices, including encouraging and enabling others to act and inspiring a shared vision.

This introductory handout on strategic planning for NGOs describes the process with a "strategic planning spiral" and gives three questions to ask when creating strategic plans.

This handout describes development of non-profit organizations, including leadership, mission, registration, professionalization, division of power, structure, team development phases and types of power.

This handout describes monitoring and evaluation as an embedded concept within project or program design and emphasizes that monitoring is integral to evaluation. It describes types of evaluation, levels of outcome and the process of program evaluation.

This handout on project management describes the aspects and dimensions of a project and the project management cycle: planning, implementation, monitoring, adapting and closing.

This brief handout describes how to prepare a good proposal, why NGOs write projects, the project management process, how to write a successful proposal and proposal structure.

This fundraising summary focuses on planning, including a fundraising matrix, developing relationships with donors, individual giving, fundraising from companies and campaigns. It includes several group exercises.

This handout on communication with the media and public highlights types of communication, nonprofit image, formulating a program and approaches.

This brief handout on project financial management highlights budgeting, what the process can show about possible upcoming challenges, and internal controls.

This resource provides a series of group exercises, including a self-assessing tool to map NGO development, determining who carries responsibility in the NGO, team roles and a self-assessing tool to understand the difference between teams and groups.

This slide presentation highlights selecting appropriate methods and techniques based on trainee needs, the trainer's competence and personal style, and the context of the training. It includes taxonomy of methods, arrangement of subgroups, stimulus, role play methods, experiential methods, needs assessment and evaluation.