On March 22, 2017 the MEPI Administrator attended the training session which was conducted by Nisaa FM in cooperation with Bank of Palestine and funded by MEPI through a local grant entitled “Aswaq “on marketing skills. Several Women Entrepreneurs from all over West Bank participated and were able to present their small business ideas and share their experiences. The idea behind this project i...
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3 April, 2017 | Topics: Events, Gender Issues, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, MEPI, Training, West Bank, women
To conclude her keynote address at the February 4 closing ceremony of MEPI LAA’s “NGOs are Stronger Together Project,”
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard urged the 190 attendees to rally their fellow citizens and vote in the May 2017 parliamentary elections – Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in eight years. She asked that civil society mobilize, in particular,
first-t...
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17 March, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Key Officials, Near East & North Africa, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Lebanon, MEPI, NGO, US Embassy
The February-May 2017 MEPI-funded Leaders for Democracy Fellowship (LDF) Arabic Program was officially launched on February 20. Implemented in Lebanon by World Learning in collaboration with the American University of Beirut (AUB), this year’s program attracted 22 Fellows from nine MENA countries. Dr. Hassan Diab, AUB Vice President of the Regional External Programs, welcomed the 22 Fellows...
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17 March, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Near East & North Africa, News, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: exchange, fellowship, MEPI
The MEPI team visited the BBC Media Action office in Ramallah on February 9 to visit the staff and screen a few episodes of the MEPI-funded project, Khaleena Nitfaham (‘Let’s Get Along’). The project spans over 20 months and aims to design, develop and distribute an innovative, inclusive and participatory TV social drama. Created by young people and for young people, the program creates mutu...
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1 March, 2017 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Events, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. & MEPI, Video | Tags: Arab media, BBC, Gaza, media, MEPI, Ramallah, television, TV, West Bank, Youth
On February 2, MEPI attended advocacy training in Ramallah as part of the MEPI-funded Internews Network project, Supporting Civic Engagement and National Dialogue through Independent Palestinian Media. The project works with local civil society organizations, journalists and media to establish strong, independent media that includes a diversity of voices, supports inclusive political processes, an...
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1 March, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Civic Engagement, civil society, dialogue, drugs, journalism, media, MENA, MEPI, Middle East, North Africa, women
Civic Education Workshop: On January 18, CSO Paradis D’enfants completed its third civic education workshop under the “Educating for Peace” MEPI-funded project. Some 36 teachers, social workers, psychologists from five different schools attended. Notwithstanding their cultural diversities, the participants were able to find commonalities among their different cultural backgrounds in order t...
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21 February, 2017 | Topics: Education, Events, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. & MEPI
CorpsAfrica/Maroc Volunteer
Learning from the PeaceCorps model, CorpsAfrica launched a new model for Moroccan volunteers to help their own communities – particularly challenging when the culture of volunteerism is not that pervasive. MEPI has been a key partner to helping CorpsAfrica get started and established. Now in its third year of operations, CorpsAfrica’s project “Volunteerism and Com...
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21 February, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Job Opportunities, Near East & North Africa, Success Stories, Trade, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Entrepreneurship, MENA, MEPI, MEPI LAA, Middle East, Success Stories, Youth
