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

The website includes resources and tips for starting a business, management and leadership, references and research, and advocacy.

In this self-paced course, users explore and develop their leadership style and identify what kind of leadership would be most effective for their situation. Steps are included to create a plan for developing a communication style.

This manual contains modules on leadership, written and oral arguments.

The manual has three sections: Building the Confidence to Participate, Enhancing Capacities to Lead, and Making Connections to Succeed. The guide is designed to provide basic tools necessary to start taking action in communities.

This guide offers a general overview of leadership skills and collective action strategies.

This presentation defines democratic governance, its processes and its effect on efficiency. It emphasizes the role of leadership and organizational structure in fostering democratic governance.

This presentation describes the administrative structure of an organization. It focuses on the roles of main actors in an organization: the director, policy maker, planner, executive trainer, representatives, arbitrator and mediator. Lastly, the presentation focuses on the leadership role of the president.

This presentation offers an introduction to social entrepreneurship, walks learners through the first steps of identifying needs and gives examples of social enterprises. The instructor's notes provide answers to the questions posed on the slides.

Building off the previous session, this curriculum walks learners through the process of clearly identifying the project by using previously discussed techniques.

This document offers an overview of how to become a social entrepreneur, including techniques for starting a project, brainstorming and individual assets audits. It also describes tools such as social networking to ensure far reach. Self-reflection exercises are included, focusing on the process leading to social impact. It is to be used with the presentation prepared for the second module.

This presentation gives an overview of how to become a social entrepreneur. It offers techniques to starting a project, including brainstorming and individual assets audits, as well as tools such as social networking to ensure far reach. The instructor's notes help navigate the presentation.

This presentation offers insight into the role of principals as culture architects and culture change agents. It also explains the importance of assessing a school's culture and defining a school vision. Finally, it goes over the eight-stage process of change.

This presentation explains the shift from traditional secondary school structure to "small learning communities." It presents the characteristics and advantages of smaller learning environments and touches upon the role of the principal within them.

This is a presentation on ethics as it applies to leaders in the field of education. It defines ethics, outlines the characteristics of ethical leaders and includes extracts from the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession. There are also case studies for reflection.

The presentation gives an overview of ethics, social contract theory and ethical decision making. Also included are questions that decision-makers can ask themselves to assess whether they are making ethical choices.