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Leadership Skills and Peacebuilding
Project: Youth Leadership for Peace-Building (YLP)
Arabic
This guide describes the peace-building process with a focus on integrated concepts and culture. It highlights development of leadership skills for advocacy campaigns and factors for garnering external support. The guide also identifies concepts and types of human rights, good governance, effective project writing and training skills.
Executive Guide - A Civil Society Approach to the Media
Project: Promoting Citizenship to Engage Arab Youth
Arabic
This manual contains a table of contents, as well as an introductory section focusing on the manual's goals - who it is intended for and how to benefit from it. It also contains a chapter on "The Media and Us," covering the history, financing and importance of the news media.
Entrepreneurship Training Trainer Manual
Project: Women in Technology (WIT)
English Arabic
This manual accompanies the Entrepreneurship Training Participant Manual, providing trainers with timing, context and purpose, materials, preparation, learning objectives and practice for six sessions. This is part of WIT's Entrepreneurship Training.
The How-To Guide For Student Councils
Project: Establishing Student Councils
Arabic
The manual is used in workshops to establish and run student councils in Yemen. It focuses on eight areas related to student councils: significance, duties and responsibilities, and formation; elections; the means to begin work; planning and the development of action plans; fundraising; evaluation; leadership skills; and helping the transition to the next year.
Exercises for Strategic Planning
Project: Local Engagement for Advocacy and Dialogue (LEAD)
English Arabic
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.
Develop Your Personal Leadership Style
Project: Online Activism Institute
English Arabic
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.
The Political Empowerment of Youth in Yemen
Project: Youth and Democracy Reform in Yemen
Arabic
This resource describes an inclusive democratization process in Yemen through increasing political awareness and empowerment of youth. The training guide presents a wide range of programs, exercises and workshops focusing on democratic principles. It includes five chapters: concepts of political empowerment and youth; political rights and duties; mechanisms of political empowerment; political empowerment skills; and the future of youth political empowerment.
Business Planning for Sustainability: Business Plan Template
Project: Women in Technology (WIT)
English Arabic
This is a template for business plans. It is part of WIT's Business Planning for Sustainability Curriculum.
How to Write a Success Story for a Civil Society Organization?
Project: Social Media | Social Action for Good Governance
Arabic
This file offers tips for writing success stories about the programs and projects of civil society organizations (CSOs).
With My Project I Create My Future: A Training Manual for Designing and Managing Small Income-Generating Projects
Project: Improving the Services Provided by Microfinance Institutions
Arabic
This training manual offers practical examples and applications for designing and managing small businesses. The guide consists of three chapters that focus on small sustainable income generating business; borrowing and microfinance institutions (MFIs); and success stories for youth projects.
Presentation - Using Social Media in Education: How Social Media Can Help Teachers
Project: Partnership School Project in Oman (and the Middle East)
English
This presentation focuses on how social media can be used in education. The presenters explain what types of social media are available, how they can be used when teaching a course, advantages and disadvantages, as well as risks and gains.
Financial Management for Non-Profit Organizations
Project: Support for Training, Advocacy and Networking for Development (STAND) program
English Arabic
This manual is meant to serve as an introduction to financial management for organizations interested in strengthening their knowledge and promoting collaboration and sustainability within the civic sector. It is one of a series of 12 manuals that was developed as part of the STAND program, which aims to build the capacity of CSOs in Kuwait and the region. A brief introductory video is available in English with Arabic subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5hn2ewCd4&list=PLJv7VOmQDSjCiufqB6vBimeuDu0WG5-qy&index=2. The full tool kit also is online: http://www.envearth.com/program_post_type/toolkit.
Project Budgeting
Project: Local Engagement for Advocacy and Dialogue (LEAD)
English
This brief handout on project financial management highlights budgeting, what the process can show about possible upcoming challenges, and internal controls.
Performance Evaluation for NGOs
Project: Empowering Women's Community Based Organizations in Jordan
Arabic
This presentation addresses the main aspects of performance evaluation for NGOs. It focuses on nine points: mission statement and goals, legislation, membership, governing bodies, planning and implantation, services and programs, IT, financial resources and the relations with governmental and international organizations.
Confidence, Capacity, Connections: A Young Woman's Guide to Leadership
Project: Strengthen Political Parties and Improve the Transparency of Electoral Systems in North Africa
Arabic
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.