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Our Partner
Collective for Research & Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A) works in partnership with NGOs with whom it shares a common vision. It provides technical support and training to NGOs, governmental partners, researchers, and international agencies on numerous areas of social and community development with particular focus on gender equality and equity. CRTD-A focuses on the theory and practice of qualitative, participatory, action-oriented social research and produces original literature on gender and development, gender mainstreaming, gender training, social development, civil society and poverty. The CRTD-A team provides consultancy services for NGOs and other development actors in gender related areas.
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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.
( categories:
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.
Lebanon: Women, non-Lebanese children get raw deal
IRIN
July 22, 2008
Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship.
Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the father who gains automatic custody, according to Lebanese nationality law.
WLP & CRTD-A Train Women to Use ICTs for Advocacy in Lebanon
Eighteen women's rights activists created blogs, online petitions, and Facebook groups to promote their advocacy efforts on behalf of women's rights in Beirut, Lebanon. They learned these new technology skills at the National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) for Social Change. The Institute was convened by WLP, in cooperation with WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A) in Beirut from December 9-12.
The new technology tools were extremely popular because they offer small, resource-strapped organizations the means to advocate for women's rights. One participant is now using her new skills to promote her women's cooperative products online. CRTD-A Information Technology (IT) co-coordinator, Lina Aboulhassan, has already started a blog to raise awareness of CRTD-A's latest activities at www.new-crtda.blogspot.com.
Participants, each of whom facilitated a session of the manual, learned how to use participatory training techniques to train others in ICT skills. CRTD-A Gender Program Coordinator, Roula Masri, facilitated a training session on social networking.
Photo Blog of National ICT Training of Trainers Institute in Lebanon
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action convened a National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change in Amman, Jordan from Dec 9-12, 2007. The Institute was facilitated by WLP colleague Usha Venkatachallam of Appropriate IT. Learn more about the Institute through Usha's photo blog below.
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2007 Arabic eCourse with participants from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine
Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), in cooperation with WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), conducted an online distance learning course (eCourse) for 25 women from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine from September 3 through November 22, 2007.
The course enabled participants to develop participatory leadership skills, encouraged cross-regional dialogue on rights, and emphasized peer-to-peer learning and cultural exchange. During online discussions participants explored the qualities of an effective leader, discussed challenges they face and their personal contributions toward realizing change, and developed a shared vision through engaging other participants. In discussions on the qualities of an effective leader, Nour* commented that leadership is "the art of cooperating and communicating effectively in order to reach a common vision." Laila* believes that leadership is the "flexible style of coordinating and cooperating with people."
2007 Arabic eCourse with participants from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine
WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research and Training on Development.Action (CRTD.A), in cooperation with Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) International, is conducting an online distance learning course (eCourse) for 25 women from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine from September 3 through November 3, 2007. The course is designed to develop inclusive and participatory leadership skills, encourage dialogue on rights, and facilitate cooperation for gender-equitable change initiatives.
Arabic eCourse: Prototype with Participants from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Palestine
From September 5 to October 21, 2005, a group of 14 experienced leadership trainers from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine participated in a five-week prototype Arabic eCourse to test and adapt the Arabic curriculum in preparation for a full eCourse in 2006.
WLP trained partners from Morocco and Lebanon to act as facilitators for the upcoming course, focusing on use of the course technology and the interactive, problem-solving methodology that guides the course.
Humanitarian Emergency in Lebanon
August 9, 2006 Update
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
In the two weeks since our last update, thanks to your very generous support and contributions, WLP partner, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), made its goal of $62,500! We cannot thank you enough for your support at a time of great need.
Your donations are being delivered in the form of relief kits by an extensive network of local women’s groups and volunteers to women housed in 105 public schools and IDP (internally displaced people) centers in Beirut, Saida, Metn, Jbail, Kesrwan, and Tripoli. CRTD-A has been able to purchase all the needed supplies. Each woman headed-household is visited before and after distribution, first to identify specific needs of her family and then for follow up.
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Lebanon | Human Rights Alerts )
Interview with Lina Abou-Habib, Director of CRTD-A, on Women's Right to Nationality
Interview with Lina Abou-Habib, Director of Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), March 4, 2006
By Anna Workman, Program Associate, WLP
Why is the right to nationality an important issue for women in the Middle East and North Africa?
Essentially because nationality is a case in point of how citizenship in this region is gendered.
