The Institute undertakes groundbreaking development programs in collaboration with a variety of national and international organizations to carry out advocacy, build capacity, and strengthen support programs for women in the region. Programs harness the significance gender and gender-based violence expertise of the institute staff to execute program such as:
- Strengthening community capacities and building critical life-skills through our Basic Living Skills Program to foster sustainable change.
- Training partners such as the Lebanese Security Sector in gender equality and gender-based violence prevention and response
- Supporting incarcerated women, female migrant domestic workers, and other vulnerable communities with rights-based approaches to services and support
Other focus areas include preventing gender-based violence; promoting women’s political participation; and engaging young women in leadership.
Latest Projects
- Annual Regional Training: Laure Moghaizel
- Capacity Building for Law Enforcement Personnel in Lebanon on Human Rights
- Capacity Building for Law Enforcement Personnel on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response
- Coordination and Support for the Human Rights Network
- Domestic Workers
- Project: “Equality for Everyone: Gender Reform from Grassroots to Government”
- Project: “Reconstructing the Stories of Unsung Heroines”
- Project: “Women in Leadership”
- Project: Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice
- Project: Security Forces Training
- Project: Supporting Political Participation of Targeted Women in Lebanon
- Project: Violence Counts! Strengthening Arab Regional Capacity to Collect Data on Violence against Women
- Qudwa: Basic Living Skills Program
- Revising Islamic Family Laws: A transnational social movement approach
- Support for Incarcerated Women
- Support for Lebanese Security Sector
- “Shabaket el Meem”: LGBTQ Youth Support Platform