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Our Partner
Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) is a women-led non-governmental organization (NGO) that uses a creative, responsive, and dedicated approach to meet the health and education needs of Afghan women, children, and communities. AIL trains and works with health and education professionals and organizations. AIL’s programs include teacher training; health professional training and health education; leadership and human rights training; and supporting home schools, community based organizations, women’s learning centers, and a pre-school education program.
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Stories and Reports
Partnership Update: Six Countries Convene to Co-Create Culturally-Adaptable Strategic Planning and Capacity Building Curriculum
From August 30th to September 4th, WLP’s partners from Afghanistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, and Palestine gathered in Potomac, Maryland, for a Strategic Planning and Capacity Building Institute. This six-day program provided opportunities for a rich dialogue addressing partners’ expectations and experiences in implementing WLP’s participatory leadership methodology through trainings, advocacy, and organizational development. During the Institute, participants co-created a draft curriculum for organizational strategic planning and capacity building, developed a timetable for carrying out this strategic planning process with individual partner organizations, and undertook an intensive review of WLP's Leading to Choices curriculum and trainings after eight years of its implementation.
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Afghanistan | Jordan | Lebanon | Morocco | Nigeria | Palestine | Organizational Capacity Building | Issue 21 (Fall 2008) | Workshops )
Engendering IT Tools: WLP Partners Share ICT Advocacy Strategies
On September 5th, Women’s Learning Partnership presented a panel at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) entitled “Technology for Women’s Rights Advocacy and Democracy Building.” In introducing the event and the panelists, Carl Gershman, President of the NED, pointed to the importance of women’s political participation and the key role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in mobilizing women as voters and leaders. The discussion, moderated by WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami and including panelists Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning, Asma Khader of Sisterhood is Global Institute/Jordan, Lina Abou Habib of Collective for Research & Training on Development-Action in Lebanon, and Rakhee Goyal of WLP, addressed the increasingly crucial role of ICTs in the context of advocacy for women’s rights, and how ICTs can be used within a participatory framework.
ICT Trainings Continue in Afghanistan Despite Challenges
January 2007: WLP Afghanistan/Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) provides information communication technology (ICT) trainings at its IT Centers despite substantial infrastructure and logistical challenges, including an irregular supply of electricity, which requires the use of generators and thereby increases the cost of training.
Despite these challenges, AIL believes it is important to continue to hold ICT training workshops in order to help bridge the digital divide and enhance IT literacy skills for students and government officials. ICT trainings last from two to ten weeks and cover basic computer skills such as MS Windows, Word, and Excel.
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Afghanistan | IT Centers )
Profound and Lasting Impact: Evaluating Workshops in Afghanistan
October 2006: In Afghanistan, violence, especially against women, is on the rise, making it increasingly difficult for WLP Afghanistan/Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) to carry out their work. Despite the increasingly volatile situation, AIL held an evaluation workshop in the summer of 2006 for past leadership training participants.
During the evaluation workshop, participants commented that even though a year had passed since they took part in the training, they remembered everything they had learned because the training had a profound and lasting impact on their lives.
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Afghanistan | Workshops )
Prototype Persian Course with Participants from Iran and Afghanistan
From January-March 2004, four leading Afghan and Iranian participants worked together over a ten-week period to develop, test and adapt the curriculum for the Persian eCourse.
Two Iranian women with strong backgrounds in women's rights education and advocacy were trained as facilitators for the future eCourse in Iran.
WLP and Afghan Institute of Learning Convene Institute for Women’s Leadership in Kabul
WLP and its Afghan partner the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) convened the Afghan Roaming Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers from April 9-13, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. AIL provides educational programs in health, human rights, leadership, and literacy for Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan's refugee camps. The Institute was the product of joint efforts between WLP and AIL to counteract severe political and social discrimination facing women in Afghanistan by helping them gain skills to be more effective advocates for women's rights, social justice, and equal participation in decision-making.
Workshops in Afghanistan and Cameroon Evaluate Leadership Learning
WLP's partners the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) and Community Education and Development Services (CEDS) recently conducted leadership workshops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Cameroon. Both AIL and CEDS also conducted their first evaluation workshops with women who had previously participated in leadership training courses using the Leading to Choices curriculum. The evaluation workshops are designed to measure improvements in women's ability to exercise leadership and to determine how participants' leadership skills have led to positive changes in their families and communities, improvement in the effectiveness of women's advocacy efforts, and development of local and regional networks.
IT Training for Women's Empowerment and Capacity-Building in Afghanistan
The sound of clicking keyboards filled the room as more than 20 women and men worked intently in a tiny packed computer lab in Kabul. The class was part of an eight-day Information Technology Training Institute entitled "Information Technology Training for Women's Empowerment and Capacity-Building," organized and implemented by the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), in cooperation with the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), May 18-25, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
