ACRLI is implementing Encouraging Marginalized Voices in the Lebanese Political Process, which is supported by a grant from the United States Department of State. The project aims to enhance the capacity of gender-focused CSOs to act on behalf of and represent women’s interests to local and national government.
The project will also focus on advocacy and provide CSOs with the tools to identify and influence the laws and practices that hinder women’s political participation. This project will create mechanisms for citizen government communication through development of community-based scorecards and support gender-focused CSOs to advocate for key issues they identify and prioritize.
ACRLI will seek to accomplish this goal through developing strategies that bolster the influence and ability of gender-focused civil society organizations to engage elected municipal and parliamentary leaders on issues affecting their communities. Activities will focus on educating and enhancing women’s networks and/or civil society organizations that are committed to drafting legislation and engaging their leaders/representatives to implement reforms.
Specifically, the project will target: women’s political participation including constituency building, citizen-government communications, and increased government accountability; through community scorecards and participatory budget monitoring.
A Series of training workshops within the project of "Encouraging
Marginalized Voices in the Lebanese Political Process" (October 10, 2018)
ACRLI and PLAN International launched a series of CSOs training on “Advocacy,
Participation, Community Scorecards and Participatory Budget”. The opening
session will be held on Wednesday 10 October 2018 at 09:00 a.m. at Gefinor
Rotana Beirut Hotel- Gefinor Hamra.
The training sessions will gather a group of 15 CSOs representatives. The
sessions aim to increase the capacities of the participants toward the
development of advocacy strategies/plans and the implementation of advocacy
campaigns. The sessions also aim to train CSOs representatives on using
community scorecards and participatory budget monitoring mechanisms.
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