Time Management
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This presentation on time management describes how to be effective and productive. It focuses on the steps to manage time along with examples and activities for setting priorities and goals.
Conflict Resolution SOUL
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This slide presentation reviews conflict resolution, starting with the five stages of conflict: pre-conflict, confrontation, crisis, outcome and post conflict. It describes common causes and types of conflict, and then moves on to techniques to resolve conflicts, including dialogue, negotiations, mediation, arbitration and litigation.
Good Citizenship
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This presentation outlines the elements of good citizenship, including the meaning of citizenship, patriotism and how to serve your country. It also reviews the responsibilities of citizens, focusing on both national and community participation.
Communication Skills
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This presentation describes the rules and importance of communication skills by highlighting research studies on the topic. Activities illustrate effective communication, characteristics of interpersonal communication and how to recognize barriers to effective communication. It also outlines verbal, visual and physical communication, and compares effective speaking and listening skills.
Social Media Project - Active Change. New Tactics and Methodologies for Advocacy
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
A Training Manual on Empowering Women With Rights to Inheritance
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This training manual contains detailed information about the concept of inheritance in Palestinian and Islamic law and the laws governing inheritance. It explains women’s shares in inheritance and property rights in religious and legal systems, along with problems women encounter in obtaining their inheritance. The manual offers practical steps for an advocacy campaign to raise women's awareness of legal procedures to advocate for their rights.
Innovative Leadership – Facilitator’s Guide
Language(s): English, Arabic, French
Published: 2013
This facilitator's guide for a training-of-trainers workshop on innovative leadership provides specifics for a two-day event, including sections on types of listening, how conversations shape actions, barriers to designing the future, creating possibility, and more. Also included are appendices on key concepts and questions, flipcharts and quotes for inspiration.
Digital Security for the Arab World
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This magazine on digital security reviews online censorship and security vulnerabilities in social networking sites in the Arab World. It also provides detailed information about ways to protect your privacy online, securing smartphone and ensuring mobile phones safety.
Innovative Leadership Workbook
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2013
This manual, developed by Barbara Fittipaldi and the Center for New Futures, provides a two-day course agenda with key questions, issues and skills related to innovative leadership and self-generated listening. It provides questions and several exercises, such as vision design and barriers to designing the future, and highlights creating relatedness, possibility, opportunity and action.
Innovative Leadership (presentation)
Language(s): English, Arabic, French
Published: 2013
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.
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 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.
Coalitions Building and Networking
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
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.
Project Budgeting
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This brief handout on project financial management highlights budgeting, what the process can show about possible upcoming challenges, and internal controls.
Communicating with the Media / Communicating with the Public
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This handout on communication with the media and public highlights types of communication, nonprofit image, formulating a program and approaches.
Project Management
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This handout on project management describes the aspects and dimensions of a project and the project management cycle: planning, implementation, monitoring, adapting and closing.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
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.
How to Raise Funds for NGOs
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
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.
Proposal Writing
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
Training References
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
تتضمن هذه الورقة الخاصة بمرجعية التدريب الأهداف الخاصة والعامة للدورة التدريبية. وتحدد أهمية التدريب وفوائده.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Debating Skills
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This brief guide explains the concept of debate - elements, skills, rules and ethics.
Mobile Applications for Civil Society Organizations
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file explains the use of innovative smart phone applications by civil society organizations (CSOs), such as to increase efficiency, provide information, data collection and surveys.
Elevator Speech: What, When, Where and How?
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file briefly explains how to take advantage of the elevator speech and gives characteristics of the speech, including tips for preparation. Elevator speeches are short summaries used to quickly and simply define an organization or service.
How to Write a Success Story for a Civil Society Organization?
Organization: International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file offers tips for writing success stories about the programs and projects of civil society organizations (CSOs).
Introduction to Fundraising Tools Through the Internet
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource describes six new tools for collecting donations for non-profit organizations through the Internet.
Tips for Writing Better Electronic Articles
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file provides several tips for civil society organizations (CSOs) to write improved electronic articles.
Smartphone Applications
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file gives the definition of smart phone applications (Mobile Apps) and how they can support civil society organizations (CSOs) in achieving their objectives and implementing programs.
The Importance of Video Sharing by Civil Society Organizations
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource provides examples of video sharing websites where civil society organizations (CSOs) can enhance their work by uploading video clips and sharing them with a large audience.
Blogging Guide
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This guide provides information about creating blogs for civil society organizations (CSOs). Topics focus on comparing websites and blogs based on properties and features, why CSOs should create and manage a blog, and how CSOs can make their blog useful and popular. The guide also offers tips for writing electronic articles and steps to create blogs on WordPress and Blogger.
10 Social Media Tools for Civil Society Organizations
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file provides a list of 10 major active social networking websites that offer free services and promote civil society organizations (CSOs) through engagement, promotion or communication.