Training Session on Advocacy and Networking (April 2009)

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Delivered sessions

Years 2007-2008

Title	Partners	Beneficiaries	Period/Country
TOT on Reproductive Health (Part1)	Syrian Commission  for Family	20 Potential Trainers from GOs and NGOs in Deir Ezzour	December, 21st to 24th 2008, Syria
Human Rights Based Approach to Programming	UNFPA Culture, Gender and Human Rights Branch	UNFPA COs Staff, National Experts, CAWTAR Staff	December 1st to 3rd 2008, Tunisia
Entrepreneurship Development Program 5	UNIDO, Young Entrepreneurs Center in Tunis CJD & AGFUND	9 young men and women entrepreneurs in Monastir-Tunisia	November 17th- December 12th 2008
Use of electronic system to follow debtors of Alimony and Divorce Funds	information and communication technology for development in Arab region “ICTDAR”	35 officers of the Alimony and Divorce Funds in Tunisia	June 2008 in Tunisia
Planning and action for Millennium Goals	United Nations’ Development Program UNDP	35 representatives of civil organizations, associations, journalists and academics from Jordan, UAE, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen	May 2008 in Tunisia
“Arab Women and Leadership”	“Sanabel” network	100 participants from Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, UAE and Syria	May 2008 in Tunisia
Building capacities of service-providers in the area of combating domestic violence in the techniques of listening and guidance	King Abdul Aziz Women Charity Association	21 women trainers from the region of Qassim- Saudi Arabia	April 2008 in Saudi Arabia
Use of the guide  Arab Women Speak Out (AWSO)	King Abdul Aziz Women Charity Association	20 women trainers from the region of Qassim- Saudi Arabia	April 2008 in Saudi Arabia
Statistical knowledge of Millennium Goals	United Nations Development Program UNDP	29 representatives of civic organizations and media professionals from Bahrain, Yemen, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia	April 2008 in Bahrain
"Supporting the rights of women and children through information technology"	information and communication technology for development in Arab region “ICTDAR”	15 guides and social workers in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Tunisians Abroad	April  2008 in Tunisia
Entrepreneurs’ Development program 4	UNIDO , Young Entrepreneurs’ Center in Tunis CJD & AGFUND	14 young men and women entrepreneurs in Monastir-Tunisia	April 2008 in Tunisia
“Supporting the rights of women and children through information technology”	information and communication technology for development in Arab region “ICTDAR”	18 guides and social workers in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Tunisians Abroad	March 2008 in Tunisia
Techniques of advocacy for change	United Nations Population Fund UNFPA	12 institutions working in the areas of development and gender and human rights in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Bahrain, 5 members of the “@NGED” network and a number “CAWTAR” executives	March 2008 in Tunisia
Gender Mainstreaming in the integrated management of water resources in the Arab region,	Gender and Water Association GWA	23 experts and trainers in the field of water resources,  a university professors specialized in this field, researchers, field engineers and  representatives of non-governmental organizations from 10 Arab countries	November/December 2007 in Tunisia
Building the capacities of civil society and institutions working the field of women’s rights and combating violence against women	United Nations Development Fund for Women “UNIFEM”	18 participants among  representatives of organizations working in the field of women's rights and combating violence against women from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Morocco and Yemen	November/December 2007 in Tunisia
Entrepreneurship Development Program 3	UNIDO, Young Entrepreneurs Center in Tunis CJD & AGFUND	13 potential women and men entrepreneurs from Tunisia	July/August 2007 in Tunisia
Women engineers and investment	International Federation of Engineering Organizations	35 women engineers	June 2007 in Tunisia
Building the capacities of service-providers in the area  of combating violence against women	United Nations Development Fund for Women “UNIFEM”	21 specialists and workers in the field from Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Mauritania	June/July 2007 in Tunisia
Supporting the rights of women and children through information technology	information and communication technology for development in Arab region “ICTDAR”	13 executives of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Tunisians Abroad, the National Union of Tunisian Women, the  Women Lawyers Association, the Tunisian Union of Solidarity, the Tunisian Association of Mothers and the Ministry of Women and the Affairs of Children and the Elderly	May 2007 in Tunisia
Development of experts for the growth of small and medium enterprises	“UNIDO” center and “AGFUND”	22 representatives of financial institutions and  government departments specialized in the establishment of small and medium enterprises, advisory institutions, universities and  trainers of entrepreneurs  from Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, UAE and  Bahrain	March 2007 in Tunisia
Building the capacities of civil organizations to monitor and evaluate the performance and mobilize resources to combat violence against women	United Nations Development Fund for Women UNIFEM	20 representatives of non-governmental organizations active in the fight against violence against women from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen	March 2007 in Egypt
Entrepreneurship Development	UNIDO and Young Entrepreneurs Center in Tunisia CJD & AGFUND	9 potential women and men entrepreneurs from Tunisia	February 2007 in Tunisia

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 Year 2006

  Training Session under CAWTAR/ICTDAR project
Promotion of Women Rights through Information, for media institutions and journalists.
(January 2006, Tunisia).

CAWTAR/UNIFEM
builing regional expertise on UNIFEM Module on CEDAW 
(January 2006, Tunisia).

CAWTAR/SAUDI National Human Rights Committee
Reinforcing Institutional Capacities to Combat Family Violence. Training will be offered to Saudi social workers
(Jeddah, March, 2006).

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Year 2005

Annual Workshop on ICT and Enhancing Micro-Credit Services for Low Income Women
Funded by the Islamic Development Bank. Training benefits 21 new micro-credit institutions based in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. The trainees also attended mini-session organized on the sideline of Sanabel Micro-Credit Annual Conference.
( 25th –28th Nov. 2005, Marrakech, Morocco)

Series of Training Sessions under CAWTAR/ICTDAR project, Promotion of Women Rights through Information, for Tunisian governmental staff and NGOs delivering social and legal services to women and children.
(Feb- Nov 2005, Tunisia).

CAWTAR/Sanabel Training Session “Operational Risks Management” benefited 25 Tunisian staff of governmental financial services and NGOs active in field of micro-credit
(28th-30th of April 2005, Tunisia).

League of Arab States Women Division/UNIFEM/CAWTAR Training program, Resource Mobilization, for government institutions and NGOs on methodologies to raise funds to support their gender projects and programs. The training benefited 22 trainees from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Somalia, Tunis, United Arab Emirates.
(10th –12th Sept., 2005 Tunisia)

Year 2004

Arab Human Rights Institute / CAWTAR: The Arab Human Rights Institute organized training session on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Part of the training materials were based upon CAWTAR’s 2nd AWDR, “Arab Adolescent Girl: Reality and Prospects”. The training was held in February 2OO4 in Cairo, Egypt, and in May 2004 in Tunisia.

League of Arab States / UNIFEM / ESCWA / CAWTAR: In partnership, the Center organized training sessions on the preparation of national reports for Beijing + 10, for middle and senior government staff, in March 2004, in Cairo, Egypt.

ILO / CAWTAR: CAWTAR co-organized training session in which the ILO's kit, “Gender, Poverty and Employment” was used to train Yemeni government officials from the Ministries of Planning, Labor, Commerce, and Women’s Affairs, as well as NGOs staff to integrate gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). The training took place in April, 2004, in Sanaa, Yemen.

UNIFEM/CAWTAR: CAWTAR co-organized training session, Reinforcing Capacitates of Iraqi Journalists, to enable trainers to cover political developments in Iraq from gender perspectives. The Training took place in October, 2004 in Amman, Jordan.