Lebanon

Center for International Private Enterprise
$185,578
To improve access to information about entrepreneurial and civic leadership skills among youth in Lebanon. CIPE will contin­ue working with DPNA to adapt the existing Entrance to Enterprise (E2E) curriculum, an entrepreneurship and civic education curriculum developed in a previous CIPE-DPNA project to better meet the needs of high school and university audiences, while expanding and fully institutionalizing the E2E curriculum on the national level.

Lebanese Association for Civil Rights
$37,360
To promote legal reform in Lebanon’s per­sonal status laws. LACR will campaign for an optional Lebanese personal status law, lead two two-day training workshops for a total of 60 youth activists, launch a cam­paign to draw attention to the demand for a national personal status law, and present parliament with a draft personal status law.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$300,000
To assist civil society organizations (CSOs) in playing an effective advocacy role at the parliamentary level by building their capac­ity in the national policy development and implementation processes. NDI will support CSOs to enhance their political organizing skills; voice more efficiently their con­cerns and implement long-term projects to encourage greater citizen participation.

Rural Women and Development
$28,000
To heighten women rights awareness among rural Lebanese and their accep­tance of women’s rights as an integral part of basic civil and political rights. RUWAD’s four trainers will hold an aver­age of ten weekly women's rights aware­ness sessions for rural women in Ksar Naba and six surrounding villages.

Search for Common Ground
$78,750
To strengthen peace-building and conflict resolution among Lebanese youth from diverse communal and political move­ments. SFCG will work through its Beirut office and network of contacts to develop a national strategy for a "One Lebanon" youth movement. SFCG will lead eight focus groups, and a one-day work­ing conference of 30 community lead­ers, civil society practitioners, and youth representatives to develop this strategy.

Sho’oun Janoubia (Southern Issues)
$65,000
To strengthen a forum for dialogue and to energize civic debate among all citizens of southern Lebanon, with an emphasis on women and youth. Sho’oun Janou­bia will publish 12 issues of its monthly 52-page flagship publication Sho’oun Janoubia, exploring issues related to the political, cultural, educational, and soci­etal developments in southern Lebanon.

Tamkeen wa Tanmiya
$64,100
To raise human and women rights aware­ness among women in Lebanon’s mar­ginalized communities, and build a cadre of human and women’s rights educators in Lebanese public and private schools. Tamkeen will work with its six-trainer team to lead 45 women's rights awareness courses each month, targeting students, teachers and parents in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley, South Lebanon, and the North.

The grant listings posted here are from the 2010 Annual Report, published in August 2011.