Applikable Technologies and AIESEC - Mobile App for Education and Career Opportunities
Language(s):
Published: 2012
The Jordanian arm of student/ alum organization AIESEC worked with Applikable Technologies to create a mobile app to engage students/ alum with further education and career opportunities. This app also has chat and file-sharing tools built in to it.
This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
Training References
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
تتضمن هذه الورقة الخاصة بمرجعية التدريب الأهداف الخاصة والعامة للدورة التدريبية. وتحدد أهمية التدريب وفوائده.
Participants' Selection Criteria
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This resource details the Participants' Selection Criteria for training on women and youth political participation, including conditions that must be adhered to by participants.
Advisors' Selection Criteria
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
The Advisors' Selection Criteria highlights procedural steps for selecting advisors, the advisor’s role and characteristics, and also the functions and main tasks of the Project Advisory Committee. This is part of a training for women and youth on political action.
Training Evaluation Form
Organization: Media Women Forum (MFW)Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
The Training Evaluation Form for women and youth's political participation training has six parts, starting with materials, training tools, trainers and trainees, and the team conducting the training session. The final sections address the challenges encountered by the team and solutions, and recommendations.
Second Guide for NGOs: Networking and Alliances Between Non-Governmental Organizations
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This guide describes the basics of networking and alliances between non-governmental organizations. It focuses on network objectives, network types and stages of networking, and also includes a networking exercise.
Mechanisms for Conducting Interviews and Effective Media Polls
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This resource details the mechanisms of conducting interviews and effective media polls. It identifies important factors, requirements and key points for successful interviews.
Writing a Radio Script
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This file briefly reviews stages of writing a radio script and types of radio scripts, as part of training for women and youth in political participation.
Theories about the Environment: Conventions, Laws, Case Studies
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resource provides training objectives, agenda, overview and slide presentation for training on environmental history, biodiversity and environmental degradation. Case studies highlight Lebanese law, and there is an overview of international environmental conventions. The aim is for participants to have a better understanding of the environment and to select and advocate for a specific environmental law or strategy. Part of the resource is available in Arabic.
Towards Environmental Advocacy: Workshop on Budget Advocacy
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resource provides training objectives, agenda, overview and student manual focusing on budget advocacy, focusing on budgets and the government budget cycle in Lebanon and
increase participants’ capacity in budget analysis and its use in advocacy. Part of the resource is available in Arabic.
Towards Environmental Advocacy: Building Capacities of Civil Society Workshop on Fundraising Strategies
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resource provides training objectives, agenda and slide presentation that focuses on how to raise fund for your project or cause and how to present proposals to donors. The presentation highlights fundraising team and strategy, project design, proposal writing and reports.
Towards Environmental Advocacy: Building Capacities of Civil Society, Workshop on Social Media Strategies
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resources provides training objectives and agenda in English and a slide presentation in Arabic, focusing strategic planning with social media, how to advocate for your cause using social media and how to target specific groups. Part of the resource is in Arabic.
Towards Environmental Advocacy: Building Capacities of Civil Society, Workshop on Public Speaking
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resource provides training objectives and agenda for a workshop focusing on improving public speaking, followed by a slide presentation. Specificially, it focuses on how to address the public to increase urban green spaces in Lebanon.
Simplified Curriculum for Awareness Raising
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Guidelines for Selecting Advocacy Issues
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Organizational and Human Resource Management: Organizational Structure
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Exercises for Strategic Planning
Organization: PartnersGlobalLanguage(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
NGO Governance and Leadership
Language(s): English, Arabic & French
Published: 2013
This handout describes development of non-profit organizations, including leadership, mission, registration, professionalization, division of power, structure, team development phases and types of power.
Leadership & Management
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Strategic Planning for NGOs
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Coalitions Building and Networking
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
Conflict Resolution
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This manual on conflict resolution focuses on conflict analysis, looking at actors, power and behavior, and mediation, highlighting mediator characteristics and process.
Training for Trainers
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This resource is a compilation of 19 handouts for PDC's March 2013 training on local engagement and advocacy. Included are handouts focusing on communication barriers, principles of educating adults, role play approach, how to divide training groups into sub-groups, trainer style, evaluation check list and exercises.
Exercises for T4T (Training for Trainers)
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Training Methods
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.