Issue 16, July 2020
About this bulletin
This bulletin issue compiles our latest publications and events, with a focus on women’s broader political participation in various arenas, beyond formal electoral moments, as well as the need for more concerted action, collaboration, and solidarity among gender actors.
Daleel Madani Gender Group: access to aggregated resources
The groups on Daleel Madani provide an online collaborative space for discussion, concerted action, and planning of campaigns and collaborations, and aim to bring together civil society actors around specific thematic issues. This tool is in line with Daleel Madani’s mission to strengthen civil society capacity, knowledge exchange, and partnerships among civil society actors.
The DM gender group allows you to stay on top of the news related to gender in one click!
In these times of acute crisis that are impacting the most vulnerable groups such as women and gender minorities, timely information, collaboration and coordination among civil society actors is more than ever needed!
The Daleel Madani Gender Group offers access to thematically aggregated news, job and call opportunities, resources, and events related to gender in Lebanon and all over the world. In addition, the group provides a space to gender related discussions as well as calls for collective action.
It currently comprises:
1. Newsfeed: this section includes aggregated professional opportunities, calls, research and analysis, news, events, and projects in the field of gender.
2. Opportunities: this section includes aggregated jobs and calls (for funding, for consultants, for participation in events and workshops, among others) in the field of Gender.
3. Discussions: this section includes open and closed discussions on issues relevant to gender.
Daleel Madani Gender group trends
Since its launch in December 2018 to this day, over 1,800 updates have been posted on the Daleel Madani Gender group including:
1340 updates such as news, resources, events, projects, and press releases
345 opportunities (i.e jobs and calls)
7 discussions
108 organisations registered on Daleel Madani are members of the Daleel Madani Gender group.
What mobilises Lebanon? Focus on mobilisations of Ethiopian Domestic Workers
In the past weeks, Ethiopian domestic workers have been mobilising to demand protection and their repatriation, as most of them are unable to afford costly flight return tickets. In a context of acute financial and economic crisis, many of them have been abandoned by their employers, without remunerations, or passports. Yet, neither the consulate nor the Lebanese State have been able to ensure their repatriation or protection so far. Indeed, under the Kafala (sponsorship) system migrant workers are deprived of their most basic rights, which leaves them vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, and precarity. Log in to your DM account and share your thoughts on this issue here.
ِAlso, follow the mobilisations on our Map of collective actions here.
Newest gender organisations registered on Daleel Madani and added to the gender group
Women's Platform to Lead
View their profile on Daleel Madani here:
“Women Platform to Lead” (WPL) is a platform for women from Baalbek-Hermel. Currently it is being registered as a non-profit-organization including 320 women members from 14 communities, out of which 13 form the management board. Members of this platform participated for a period of 3 years in women empowering projects which aimed at strengthening their leadership and communication skills, managerial and financial capacities through training workshops, coaching sessions, mentoring, shadowing, advocacy trainings and micro funds to implement community projects. Throughout these projects, the women felt the need to become an independent body and decided to found the “Women Platform to Lead” organization.
RIGHT’S CREAM
View their profile on Daleel Madani here:
The objectives of RIGHT’SCREAM:
Promoting human rights and advancing the rights of children and women in particular.
Working to eliminate violence against women and juveniles
Providing free followup on juveniles cases (at risk and in violation of the law) in front of competent court
Providing free legal and social consultations to juveniles at risk and in violation of the law
*You can view other organisations and civil society actors on the Civil Society Directory of Daleel Madani
If your organisation would like to register on Daleel Madani, please fill in this form
This bulletin is published as part of the Gender Equity Network, a project by Lebanon Support. It was developed in partnership with Diakonia. The Gender Equity Network (GEN) is an online thematic and collaborative project, part of Lebanon Support’s Civil Society Knowledge Centre (CSKC).
