HOPES - Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians

HOPES is launching the Call for Proposals (CfP) to support 40 innovative education initiatives targeting refugees and vulnerable host communities across Egypt, Northern Iraq (KRI), Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and/or Syria.

Specific Objectives:

• Increase the number of the target group, refugees of post-secondary age from Syria as well as young people in host communities that are enrolled and trained in higher education programs and training courses including innovative further education options and language courses.
• Improve the situation and performance of already enrolled students, education and training institutions’ capacity to provide Syrian youth and vulnerable youth from the host communities, with opportunities to access further and higher education.
• Promote refugee education through better access to online resources, innovative courses, and educational support.

Overall, it aspires to empower young people from Syria to build their own career path by addressing their educational needs.**Opening the Call:**

The first round of applications will be launched on 1^st March 2017

Deadline for applications: 1^st May 2017.Who can apply:**

Local and regional organizations can request funds for their actions ranging from €6,000 to €60,000 for a maximum duration of 18 months.**Information session:**

During the application period, one information session will be organized in all eligible countries: Egypt, Northern Iraq (KRI), Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to provide more information on the call for potential applicants.

How to apply:

Please download and fill out the documents on the website: http://hopes-madad.org . All applications shall be sent to cfp@hopes-madad.org by the latest on 1^st May 2017.

Addressing Refugee Crises in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy and Practice(July9 - 13, 2017)

The Middle East and North Africa region is one which has been facing inter and intra-state conflict for decades, with forced displacement being a major consequence. How have the current refugee crises in the region been a determining factor in global politics? How can responses to refugee crises such as those in Syria, Yemen, Libya, or Iraq continue to be depoliticized, and the main principles of international refugee and humanitarian law be upheld? What are the prospects for solutions to protracted refugee crises in the region? And how can multi-stakeholder processes have a greater impact, in light of the September 2016 United Nations General Assembly Summit? This short course aims to analyze the contextual construction of refugee situations and the policy frameworks in place to address them in the largest displacement crises since World War II.

About the instructor: ShadenKhallaf is an expert on displacement and humanitarian affairs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She is currently the Senior Policy Advisor for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) MENA Bureau. With over 18 years of experience and travel across the region, her areas of work have included refugee women and child protection, return and post-conflict transitions, advocacy and communications, cooperation with regional organizations, goodwill ambassador management, prevention of violent extremism, and catalyzing strategic partnership policies for engagement with civil society, focusing on academia and the private sector. Khallaf has previously lectured at the Department of Law and the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy of the American University in Cairo, and has offered short courses and seminars at numerous academic institutions around the world, as well as published several papers on displacement in MENA. Khallaf is a strong advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and is continuously exploring ways to support women in the challenging humanitarian field.

Application Information:

To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx

2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim

Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB:Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Dates and Location:

Courses will take place at the AUC premises. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses.

Advanced Refugee Law: Developing Strategies of Legal Engagement At The Frontier Of The International Refugee Regime(July 16 20, 2017)

Is someone a refugee if he or she has fled to a state that hasn't signed the Refugee Convention or recognized refugees in its domestic law? If this person isn't a refugee, does he or she have any rights? What protection is owed to him or her by the new state of residence? How can the law, lawyers and legal institutions respond to the vulnerability, needs and capacities of such individuals?

From Lebanon through to Malaysia, a majority of the world's refugees live in a broad, contiguous swath of states that have not signed up to the core international agreements concerning how refugees should be protected. Furthermore, many states that are party to the Refugee Convention have not incorporated its obligations into domestic law. In such locations, refugees are often treated as "outside of the law" and subject to discrimination, abuse and other serious human rights violations. The answers to the opening questions for these people are too often in the negative and the result can be catastrophic for refugees. Refugees in these locations suffer a range of mistreatment as result of being seen as outside of the law, including irregular status, discriminatory treatment from landlords and employers, sexual harassment and assault with impunity (including at the hands of state officials), arbitrary arrest and indefinite detention (often in conditions so severe as to put their life at risk), and corporal punishments such as canning. This course seeks to systematically explore some recent successes by local providers of legal aid to refugees at the frontier of the international refugee regime and to discuss how these successes can form the basis for a new approach to refugee protection.

At its outset, the course will explore the limitationsof the Refugee Convention and the international refugee regime that is built upon it. It will propose and develop an alternative approach based upon a broadly and diversely sourced “law of asylum”. The doctrinal sources relevant to this law will be elaborated, including international and regional human rights sources as well as domestic constitutional, statutory and customary sources, as will the practical challenges of such lawyering.Turning its critique of the international refugee regime upon itself, the course will also explore how more expansive understandings of what constitutes “law” may also reveal avenues and fora for advocacy. The course will also problematize the voice and agency of refugees in legal engagement and the meaning of and challenges facing those seeking to pursue legal empowerment. The course will draw heavily upon case studies sourced from jurisdictions traditionally seen as at the frontier of the international refugee regime, including mainly Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

The course will be delivered through a range of means including lectures, small group work, and interactive exercises. Invited speakers drawn from the local legal and refugee communities will also apply the discussions of the course to the context of refugee protection in Egypt. The course assumes a familiarity with the Refugee Convention and the international refugee regime and is aimed at post-graduate students, practitioners, policy makers and lawyers with an interest in the role of the law in refugee protection.

About the instructor: Martin Jones is a senior lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. He has practiced as a refugee lawyer in Canada and has published widely on various topics in refugee law. Martin is the co-founder of the Egyptian Foundation for Refugee Rights, the leading provider of refugee legal aid in Egypt, and has consulted widely to legal aid organizations in the Middle East and Asia. He is the principal investigator of a multi-year collaborative international research project investigating the role of the law in refugee protection in the Global South.

Application Information:
To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx
2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim
   Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
   Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB:Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Dates and Location:

Courses will take place at the AUC premises. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses.

Palestinian Refugees(July 23 - 27, 2017)

Palestinian Refugees are the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine, the majority of whom were dispossessed and expelled when the Israeli colonial state was created in 1948. Consequently the solution of the Palestinian refugee problem is the root for a just solution to the Palestinian question that has been challenged the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Law and refugee policy for decades.

This inter-disciplinary course will be an opportunity for students to engage directly with the major practical and theoretical issues connected with the background of the Palestinian refugee crisis, with special attention to the socio- political historical context and legal status of Palestinian refugees in the region (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel).

Through a mix of lectures, working group exercises and interactive sessions, students examine critically the historical, political, legal and ideological forces that have shaped Palestinian refugees turbulent circumstances and participate actively in the contemporary debates in international law and analyze the specific context of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.

The key themes, which have taken emergent focus in the debate on the Palestinian refugee crisis, are statelessness, right of return, repatriation, self-determination, restitution compensation and protection. These themes are critically examined along with current discussions about the respective roles of UNRWA and UNHCR in the Palestinian refugee case.

We hope to attract a diverse group of students who have both personal and professional interest in refugee policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The course is intended to be a stimulating experience for people who are familiar with issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but would like a broader critical or theoretical perspective, as well as for people who have experience with refugee, humanitarian, or international issues but who would like an intensive introduction to Palestinian refugees. Taking advantage of the short course format, the course will include a number of simulations and small group exercises.

Each of the five days of the course will be organized around a theme related to Palestinian refugees

About the Instructor: Tahreer Araj is an activist scholar who works at American University in Cairo as Assistant professor of Sociology. Tahreer received her PhD in Human and Community Development from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA. She accomplished her BA in Sociology and a MA in Gender, Development and Law from Birzeit University in Palestine.As a Palestinian, Dr. Tahreer worked for ten years with a number of grassroots NGOs and international agencies in Palestine and leading many researches and initiatives about Palestinian refugees. She had been also working as a gender expert and consultant with several International development agencies and local NGOs in Egypt.

Her current research and teaching interests extend to a range of topics in; Social Movements; Community Mobilization; Refugees and Identity; Community Organizing and Development; Gender and Development; Cooperatives; Palestinian Women’s Movement; Middle East Social Movements. Dr. Tahreer just finished working on a research to be published by Institute for Palestine studies examining the change in relationships between Egypt and Palestine and its impact on future solutions to the Palestinian question.

Application Information:

To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx

2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim

Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB:Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Dates and Location:

Courses will take place at the AUC premises. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses. -->

We offer highly discounted fees for applicants from Relief and Development, so as to further our mission of building capacity in under served areas.

Please get in touch with us for details.

Overview:

The Communication Skills Training Course provides practical, effective tools to enable clear and effective communication in all aspects of both your personal and work-related relationships with skills like reading body language, recognising personality types, active listening and much more. The training program outline is up to date and pertinent to marketplace requirements, thus catering well to all analytical prediction of training needs in the specified area. A customised proposal can also be arranged, to suit the training requirement of your team.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Utilize advanced communication tools and skills.
• Discover different personal listening styles.
• Understand and harness the power of body language.
• Apply NLP meta programs to improve their understanding of people.
• Practice and use assertiveness skills in different situations.
• Unlock the secrets of influence for effective communication.

Course Outline:

• Defining Effective Communication
• Communication Overview
• Evolution of Communication
• Communicating for Results
• Understanding Elements of Communication
• The Element of Noise
• Mehrabian’s 55-38-7 Rule
• Overcoming Communication Anxiety
• The Art of Listening
• Effective Listening and Paraphrasing Techniques
• Understanding Different Listening Styles
• Improving the Information Recall Rate
• Assessing Personal Listening Profiles
• Internal Listening Filters
• Sensory Input Channels
• Internal Filter Systems
• 6 Listening Meta Programs
• Avoiding the Loss of Information
• Mastering Body Language
• The Art of Body Language
• Components of Non Verbal Communication
• The Power of Appearances
• Elicit Thinking Patterns through Eye Movement
• Building Rapport using Body Language
• Advanced Assertiveness Skills
• Understanding Assertiveness
• The Power of Self Talk
• Assertiveness Rights and Responsibilities
• Managing Criticism Assertively
• The Power of Persuasion
• Characteristics of Influence
• 6 Principles of Persuasion
• Sources of Power
• Dealing with Difficult People

Who should Attend?

Employees, supervisors, middle managers and senior managers seeking to take their communication skills to the next level by developing advanced communication techniques and strategies.

General Notes

• All our courses can be facilitated as Customized In-House Training course.
• Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
• As for Open Enrolment Courses, we offer our clients the flexibility to chose the location, date, and time and our team of experts who are spread around the globe will assist in facilitating the course.
• The course fee includes facilitation, training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training.
• FREE Consultation and Coaching provided during and after the course.

Please register through the registration option on the course page on our website: http://zoetalentsolutions.com/course/advanced-communication-skills/

This course provides an overview of all aspects of M&E from planning M&E activities to impact assessment, with a focus on ensuring that M&E contributes towards improving organizational learning and accountability. It builds on and enhances participant's skills and understanding of M&E and work through some of the complex challenges in doing M&E including as how to develop sustainable and cost effective monitoring and evaluation processes and practices within their own projects, programs and organizations. It is also relevant for those trying to improve and enhance current monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems strengthening its objectivity and effectiveness for project’s learning or supporting partners to develop and implement effective M&E.

This course is an intermediate to advanced level course level. The course provides an overview of advanced and participatory concepts and tools in monitoring and evaluation with a focus on ensuring that M&E contributes towards improving organizational learning and accountability including the provision of credible performance evidences.

Learning Outcomes

• Increased understanding around monitoring and evaluating developmental outcomes and impact.
• Be able to select and use appropriate participatory data collection methods and effectively debate about challenges around such new qualitative and participatory M&E approaches.
• Increased capacity of attendees to run and manage evaluation missions more successfully.
• Know how to choose relevant impact evaluation methodologies.

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• It is an Intermediate - Advanced level course, it is advised to take the Foundation Level course beforehand if you're not an experienced M&E Officer
• Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English
• Trainers are bilingual: English/Arabic

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Social Enterprises are businesses driven by social purpose which generate the majority of their income through trade i.e. from goods and services provided. Social entrepreneurs speak Business but think Social. Social enterprises are impact-driven projects as it creates jobs, reduces inequalities, and helps to build more inclusive, prosperous societies.

A social entrepreneur has great idea, a strong desire to help change the world for the better. But it’s impossible to get off the ground unless has the funding to back her / his vision. Donors are nowadays shifting from funding traditional income generation projects to social enterprises due to their belief of the passion possessed by social entrepreneurs.

Rather than waste your time chasing the money, in this course you will learn how to apply for a grant to establish or to expand a social enterprise. However, the conflict begins of how to balance a for-profit business model with social cause and how to measure impact.

Learning Outcomes

• Increased attendees’ capacity to make informed decision to which suitable type and approach of social enterprises they may pursue
• Increased knowledge of inclusion concepts including pro-poor, bottom of the pyramid and how to capitalize on the power of the poor and the marginalized
• Increased understanding of how to commercially sustain a project while sustaining the socio-economic and environmental impact achieved
• Increased understanding of specific indicators related to the performance of social enterprises such number of people served and revenues generated.

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English
• Trainers are bilingual: English/Arabic.

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Program Introduction

Teambuilding means turning your people in to a productive force. When you transform a group of people from group of individuals in to a winning team you create something unique and remarkably productive for the organization. However, for a team to make things happen and succeed, they need concrete and inspiring goals and objectives. For this purpose, you need to understand what motivates you and your team. Getting this right for the people you are working with will make a critical difference in the success of the whole organization.

Through practical exercises, participatory approaches and interactive presentations, this workshop will help you discover a wide range of skills and techniques in mastering the process of teambuilding, setting exciting goals for them and motivating them towards achieving those goals.

Program Attendees

The workshop is beneficial for Supervisors, Project Managers, Team Leaders and anyone who at one time or another is involved in managing and leading a team, setting goals and objectives for them and responsible for their output.

Program Contents

Core Concepts covered in this program are:

• Team Development
• Team Cohesion
• Team Leaders and Threats to Teams
• From Unshared Certainty to Shared Uncertainty
• Establishing your goal
• The Importance of Having Goals
• The 4CF Method
• The SMART Method
• Backward Goal Setting
• Understanding Motivation
• Myths about Motivation
• Positive Motivators
• Negative Motivators
• Motivation in Practice

Program Objectives

After attending this course you will learn about

• Steps and considerations in developing a productive team
• The theories that underpin teambuilding, goal setting and motivation
• Turning aspirations in to clear goal statements
• Keys to persuade team members to buy into set goals
• Factors that motivate people to go beyond their limits
• Factors that demotivate and how to avoid them

Organizational Impact

This program will be beneficial for participating organizations as it will

• Enable participants develop productive teams that can achieve the organizational goals
• Help delegates set tangible and concrete goals for their work teams and then achieve them
• Provide the organization with people who are catalysts in transforming groups of employees into a formidable workforce in action
• Develop people who love what they are doing for the organization

Personal Impact

On a personal level workshop trainees will learn about

Skills and techniques they can utilize in their career regarding developing effective work teams, creating and setting inspiring goals for those teams and having them get the work done in an efficient manner.

Program Methodology

The training methodology used is designed to encourage maximum participation by all delegates. The presenter will suggest ideas and theories to the delegates and then encourage them to test out the ideas by the use of discussion, small group work, exercises and feedback. Each day of the seminar will end by delegates completing their own record of what has been learned on the day and considering how the ideas might be transferred back to the workplace.

Program Dates: 11-13 October, 2017

Registration Closes on: 5 September, 2017

Register Online

Registration Assistance: ***trainings@risalatconsultants.com* or risalatconsultants@gmail.com**

Skype:risalatconsultantsint Viber/WhatsApp: +995555116622 or +93799797919

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HOPES - Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians

HOPES is launching the Call for Proposals (CfP) to support 40 innovative education initiatives targeting refugees and vulnerable host communities across Egypt, Northern Iraq (KRI), Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and/or Syria.

Specific Objectives:

• Increase the number of the target group, refugees of post-secondary age from Syria as well as young people in host communities that are enrolled and trained in higher education programs and training courses including innovative further education options and language courses.
• Improve the situation and performance of already enrolled students, education and training institutions’ capacity to provide Syrian youth and vulnerable youth from the host communities, with opportunities to access further and higher education.
• Promote refugee education through better access to online resources, innovative courses, and educational support.

Overall, it aspires to empower young people from Syria to build their own career path by addressing their educational needs.**Opening the Call:**

The first round of applications will be launched on 1^st March 2017

Deadline for applications: 1^st May 2017.Who can apply:**

Local and regional organizations can request funds for their actions ranging from €6,000 to €60,000 for a maximum duration of 18 months.**Information session:**

During the application period, one information session will be organized in all eligible countries: Egypt, Northern Iraq (KRI), Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to provide more information on the call for potential applicants.

How to apply:

Please download and fill out the documents on the website: http://hopes-madad.org . All applications shall be sent to cfp@hopes-madad.org by the latest on 1^st May 2017.

We offer highly discounted fees for applicants from Relief and Development, so as to further our mission of building capacity in under served areas.

Please get in touch with us for details.

Overview:

The Communication Skills Training Course provides practical, effective tools to enable clear and effective communication in all aspects of both your personal and work-related relationships with skills like reading body language, recognising personality types, active listening and much more. The training program outline is up to date and pertinent to marketplace requirements, thus catering well to all analytical prediction of training needs in the specified area. A customised proposal can also be arranged, to suit the training requirement of your team.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Utilize advanced communication tools and skills.
• Discover different personal listening styles.
• Understand and harness the power of body language.
• Apply NLP meta programs to improve their understanding of people.
• Practice and use assertiveness skills in different situations.
• Unlock the secrets of influence for effective communication.

Course Outline:

• Defining Effective Communication
• Communication Overview
• Evolution of Communication
• Communicating for Results
• Understanding Elements of Communication
• The Element of Noise
• Mehrabian’s 55-38-7 Rule
• Overcoming Communication Anxiety
• The Art of Listening
• Effective Listening and Paraphrasing Techniques
• Understanding Different Listening Styles
• Improving the Information Recall Rate
• Assessing Personal Listening Profiles
• Internal Listening Filters
• Sensory Input Channels
• Internal Filter Systems
• 6 Listening Meta Programs
• Avoiding the Loss of Information
• Mastering Body Language
• The Art of Body Language
• Components of Non Verbal Communication
• The Power of Appearances
• Elicit Thinking Patterns through Eye Movement
• Building Rapport using Body Language
• Advanced Assertiveness Skills
• Understanding Assertiveness
• The Power of Self Talk
• Assertiveness Rights and Responsibilities
• Managing Criticism Assertively
• The Power of Persuasion
• Characteristics of Influence
• 6 Principles of Persuasion
• Sources of Power
• Dealing with Difficult People

Who should Attend?

Employees, supervisors, middle managers and senior managers seeking to take their communication skills to the next level by developing advanced communication techniques and strategies.

General Notes

• All our courses can be facilitated as Customized In-House Training course.
• Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
• As for Open Enrolment Courses, we offer our clients the flexibility to chose the location, date, and time and our team of experts who are spread around the globe will assist in facilitating the course.
• The course fee includes facilitation, training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training.
• FREE Consultation and Coaching provided during and after the course.

Please register through the registration option on the course page on our website: http://zoetalentsolutions.com/course/advanced-communication-skills/

This course provides an overview of all aspects of M&E from planning M&E activities to impact assessment, with a focus on ensuring that M&E contributes towards improving organizational learning and accountability. It builds on and enhances participant's skills and understanding of M&E and work through some of the complex challenges in doing M&E including as how to develop sustainable and cost effective monitoring and evaluation processes and practices within their own projects, programs and organizations. It is also relevant for those trying to improve and enhance current monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems strengthening its objectivity and effectiveness for project’s learning or supporting partners to develop and implement effective M&E.

This course is an intermediate to advanced level course level. The course provides an overview of advanced and participatory concepts and tools in monitoring and evaluation with a focus on ensuring that M&E contributes towards improving organizational learning and accountability including the provision of credible performance evidences.

Learning Outcomes

• Increased understanding around monitoring and evaluating developmental outcomes and impact.
• Be able to select and use appropriate participatory data collection methods and effectively debate about challenges around such new qualitative and participatory M&E approaches.
• Increased capacity of attendees to run and manage evaluation missions more successfully.
• Know how to choose relevant impact evaluation methodologies.

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• It is an Intermediate - Advanced level course, it is advised to take the Foundation Level course beforehand if you're not an experienced M&E Officer
• Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English
• Trainers are bilingual: English/Arabic

Please register via the following online form: http://bk-eg.com/monitoring-and-evaluation-for-development-projects-advanced-levelform/?

Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations are mandated to demonstrate and report tangible results in development projects in order to be more accountable to its beneficiaries in one hand and its funding partners on the other for how resources are used, what results are achieved and how effective these results are in bringing about progress and change in human development.

In order for such organizations to stand-out of the competition, they need not only to build results-oriented culture but to strive towards greater outcome-level changes targeting improved lives for their project’s beneficiaries. This training provides organizations with fundamental processes and tools needed to undertake systematic monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities throughout the entire life cycle of its projects in order to produce highly effective programs, as well as to meet the continually increasing monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements of donors.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

· Equipping participants with hands-on practice on using logic-modeling when designing their projects

· Equipping participants on how to design M&E system that goes beyond tracking activities

· Learn how to show results and make sure your system also enables genuine learning by all actors.

· Understand the various types of regular data collection tools and their proper usages

· Understand the basics of development evaluations, including type of evaluations, OECD/DAC criteria

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

· This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).

· Training course fees is 950 EGP including hard copy of training manual and certificate of attendance

· Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English

· Trainers are bilingual English / Arabic

http://bk-eg.com/monitoring-and-evaluation-for-development-projects-foundation-levelform/?

In a competitive market, knowing how to manage, plan and package a proposal is one of the most important measures that bring your company / organization to the position of closing a deal with the client. Companies and organizations don’t only compete on the same business opportunities, tenders and clients to which they submit proposals, but they often compete with the clock to construct high quality proposals in small amounts of time. Carelessly and poorly managed and presented proposals can damage your company’s reputation with your client. Successful Proposal Managers and Writers know how to deconstruct Requests for Proposals (RfP) and to smartly story-board their proposed solutions in order to submit proposals that are compliant, responsive and adequate.

If you are experiencing any of the following situations, then this training course is best-fit for you:

• Don’t know from where to start to develop your technical proposal
• Poor coordination and communication among contributors
• Problems with Request for Proposal compliance
• Continuously reworking and rewriting sections right up to the proposal delivery date

In this course you will learn how to mind-map and draw your whole solutions, outline your proposal in a comprehensive manner, develop and write consistent and persuasive technical and management approaches.

This course is a foundation to intermediate level and is designed for private sector professional and technical service providers such as engineering firms, ICT solutions providers, management consulting companies, advisory services firms among others. It is suitable for all practitioners who want to submit a proposal document that is a responsive, compliant and persuasive.

Learning Outcomes

• Introducing participants to best practices in proposal management process including how to bring the team together in an integrated and efficient manner when developing a coherent, responsive and compliant proposal document.
• Learn how to organize a responsive and compliant proposal
• Equip participants with know how to quality control the proposal preparation process and the final product package

Who Should Attend**

• Owners, business development managers, proposal writers, tender / bidding specialists of small-medium Professional Services Providers of the following sectors

• Engineering companies

• ICT solutions providers

• Consulting firms (Management; Marketing, Human Resources, Development and Media consulting firms, etc.)

• Social Entrepreneurs

  Information & Assistance
  Ms. Christen Anwer
  Business Development Officer
  info@bk-eg.com
  Tel: +20 (2) 333 77 666

http://bk-eg.com/writing-and-managing-winning-proposals-foundation-levelform/?

Course Overview

The experience, knowledge and enthusiasm of a presenter are usually the deciding factors of many selection panels and audiences in judging how good a presentation is. For major projects, initiatives, and ideas, most competing teams will do their technical homework and develop similar competing approaches and solutions to the project’s needs/issues and challenges. To many selection panels, the technical approaches of competing teams are too similar, making it difficult for them to differentiate the teams technically and thus they resort to other factors; the clients ask firms to present their proposal in-front of a selection committee. Therefore your presentation, slides, audiovisuals, style, tone etc. are critical factors to seal the deal.

In other words, in addition to developing a sound technical approach as the core of any presentation, it is equally or even more important to focus on the soft attributes of the presenting team; their teamwork and chemistry, passion and enthusiasm, and their likeability.

Learning Outcomes Learn how to organize your presentation in a story-telling fashion in order to engage the listener.

Tailor the focus of the message(s) according to the needs of your audience.
Characteristics of effective message crafting and delivery
Better commanding the room and counterpart nervousness and rushed attitudes.
Increased capacity to answer questions clearly, confidently, & accurately

Learn how personal presentation skills and visual aids can effectively add value and improve the effectiveness of your message.

Information & Assistance

Ms. Christen Anwer, Business Development Officer

info@bk-eg.com
Tel: +20 (2) 333 77 666

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Program Introduction

Teambuilding means turning your people in to a productive force. When you transform a group of people from group of individuals in to a winning team you create something unique and remarkably productive for the organization. However, for a team to make things happen and succeed, they need concrete and inspiring goals and objectives. For this purpose, you need to understand what motivates you and your team. Getting this right for the people you are working with will make a critical difference in the success of the whole organization.

Through practical exercises, participatory approaches and interactive presentations, this workshop will help you discover a wide range of skills and techniques in mastering the process of teambuilding, setting exciting goals for them and motivating them towards achieving those goals.

Program Attendees

The workshop is beneficial for Supervisors, Project Managers, Team Leaders and anyone who at one time or another is involved in managing and leading a team, setting goals and objectives for them and responsible for their output.

Program Contents

Core Concepts covered in this program are:

• Team Development
• Team Cohesion
• Team Leaders and Threats to Teams
• From Unshared Certainty to Shared Uncertainty
• Establishing your goal
• The Importance of Having Goals
• The 4CF Method
• The SMART Method
• Backward Goal Setting
• Understanding Motivation
• Myths about Motivation
• Positive Motivators
• Negative Motivators
• Motivation in Practice

Program Objectives

After attending this course you will learn about

• Steps and considerations in developing a productive team
• The theories that underpin teambuilding, goal setting and motivation
• Turning aspirations in to clear goal statements
• Keys to persuade team members to buy into set goals
• Factors that motivate people to go beyond their limits
• Factors that demotivate and how to avoid them

Organizational Impact

This program will be beneficial for participating organizations as it will

• Enable participants develop productive teams that can achieve the organizational goals
• Help delegates set tangible and concrete goals for their work teams and then achieve them
• Provide the organization with people who are catalysts in transforming groups of employees into a formidable workforce in action
• Develop people who love what they are doing for the organization

Personal Impact

On a personal level workshop trainees will learn about

Skills and techniques they can utilize in their career regarding developing effective work teams, creating and setting inspiring goals for those teams and having them get the work done in an efficient manner.

Program Methodology

The training methodology used is designed to encourage maximum participation by all delegates. The presenter will suggest ideas and theories to the delegates and then encourage them to test out the ideas by the use of discussion, small group work, exercises and feedback. Each day of the seminar will end by delegates completing their own record of what has been learned on the day and considering how the ideas might be transferred back to the workplace.

Program Dates: 11-13 October, 2017

Registration Closes on: 5 September, 2017

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Cairo with its’ currently assumed 18 million inhabitants is and has always been in the past one of Africa´s most vibrant metropolises. According to the urban historian Nezar AlSayyad the city for millennia already is a cosmopolitan global city. However, in the last centuries, from the Ottoman Empire until present Cairo has witnessed large migratory movements, both internally and transnational, which have shaped its urban life, development and dynamics in many ways.

This short course will focus on the importance of Cairo as a junction for transnational networks, migration and cultural and religious diversity, as well as an important home for tremendous refugee movements from the neighboring Arabian and Sub-Saharan countries focusing on current and previous migrant movements and its legacy. In this way the course intends to challenge myths on Cairo´s urban realities and questions western-universalistic concepts of Cosmopolitanism and Modernity. The short course will consist of a mixture of seminars and lectures as well as guided tours by local experts and practitioners (academics, NGOs, migrant-(self)organizations).

About the Instructors:** Gerda Heck is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology and the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at The American University in Cairo. Her academic work and research focus on migration and border regimes, urban studies, transnational migration, migrant networks and self-organizing, religion and new concepts of citizenship. She has conducted research in Germany, Brazil, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Morocco, Turkey and the USA. Apart from her own research projects, she has participated in various international research projects.

Stephan Lanz, Dr. Phil., is an Urbanist and a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder (Germany). His main research interests are urban governance, urban cultures, migration and urban development. Between 2010 and 2014, he was academic director of the international research project Global Prayers – Redemption and Liberation in the City. Lanz is a founding member of metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB: Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Application Information:

To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx

2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim

Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

In a world where nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution,” UNHCR (2017), the crisis became epidemic in catastrophic proportions. It is widely recognized that the face of this crisis and the refugee landscape has changed greatly over the last decade. Refugees are less often concentrated in the traditional camps, and more often are living in urban areas, especially large cities. This change in landscape adds further psychosocial issues to consider, particularly, integration into communities and access to resources. Most of the guidelines and recommendations for psychosocial interventions are directed at those refugees living in camps, and it is recognized that this needs urgent addressing.

This course aims to bring those working with refugees and forced migrants together to develop a greater understanding of the needs, experiences, psychosocial and mental health interventions available to this ever growing and under serviced population, with a particular focus on displaced individuals living in urban areas. Whilst many refugees are able to great resilience and cope effectively, others in more vulnerable situations are less able to, and are at increased risk of mental health and social problems. Those with existing mental health issues are at great risk of the worsening and prolonging of such issues, given the circumstances in which they find themselves and a lack of access to appropriate resources.

This course will also familiarize participants with the Inter Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings. The levels of interventions will be explored focusing on psychological first aid, basic counseling skills and the identification and sharing of referrals and cases.

About the Instructor: Kate Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Graduate Director of the Psychology Department at the American University in Cairo. She is a qualified clinical psychologist who completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University, in England. Dr Ellis works predominantly with refugees and individuals who have experienced trauma. Her research focuses on the impact of violence and conflict, with a particular focus on young people, which was the focus of her first PhD awarded by the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Dr Ellis is also the course coordinator of the Leadership in Mental Health course, Eastern Mediterranean Region, held annually at the AUC. This course was developed in collaboration with the WHO, in order to provide training to mental health professionals in the region, with the aims of up-scaling mental health services and putting mental health on the national health agenda in under resourced countries low economic status countries.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB: Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Dates and Location:

Courses will take place at AUC Tahrir Campus. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses.

Application Information:

To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx

2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim

Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

Across Europe, the figure of the migrant has taken center stage in anxious debates about the present and future of the nation-state. Against this backdrop, a range of laws and policies regulating migrants’ relation to the nation-state – or ‘migrant citizenship’ – have been adopted and implemented. This course investigates these laws and policies as well as migrant experiences of, and responses to them. As a starting point, the course introduces different perspectives on Europe, such as a post-colonial and a post-industrial perspective, as well as different understandings of citizenship and belonging. From there, the course traces the unfolding of neoliberal welfare reforms and the culturalization of citizenship of the past few decades. The course then delves into the actual laws and policies regulating migrant citizenship, emphasizing in particular how migrants’ negotiation of these laws and policies are shaped by intersections of gender, class, and race. It does so through a series of in-depth, ethnographic studies that show the contours of migrant citizenship in everyday life.

About the instructor:** Wiebe Ruijtenberg is a PhD researcher at the department of anthropology and development studies at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research explores the Dutch welfare state through the experiences of Egyptian migrant families in Amsterdam. Previously, he graduated from the Research Master Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on social life in gated communities in Cairo, Egypt. He has also taught as a visiting fellow at the Cairo Initiative for Liberal Arts and Sciences. During the spring semester of 2017-2018, Wiebe will spend a month at the American University for a teaching visit sponsored by the mobility program of the international office at Radboud University.

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: These courses are offered for graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9.30 am till 4pm for five days.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course

NB: Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early because it takes more than one month to obtain Egyptian visa.

Dates and Location:

Courses will take place at AUC Tahrir Campus. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses.

Application Information:

To apply for the courses:

1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx

2. Send the application form to cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu with your most recent C.V; Att. Naseem Hashim

Applicants may apply to and be accepted in more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.

A commitment to performance measurement has become essential throughout the nonprofit sector, foundations, government and other nongovernmental organizations in response to demands for increased accountability, pressures for improved quality and customer service, and mandates to “do more with less,”. There is also an emerging drive to strengthen the capacity for results oriented management among professional public and nonprofit administrators.

Demonstrating results achieved is required to be accountable to project’s beneficiaries in one hand and to funding partners on the other. Applying proper project design practices and setting-out a monitoring and evaluation framework are not important only to demonstrate accountability but also to report progress, manage project’s activities, apply for additional funding and to communicate development change more effectively. Furthermore, in order to stand-out of the competition, organizations need not only to build results-oriented culture but to strive towards greater outcome-level changes targeting improved welfare for their project’s beneficiaries.

The training will cover the basics of performance measurement and looks at frameworks to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes, definition of performance indicators and data sources. The course will provide ways into the analysis and reporting of performance information and its incorporation in a number of critical management processes such as project management, stakeholders engagement, strategic planning, proposal writing, and effective communication among others. The course will end up with an open discussion of the challenges and common problems in M&E systems

The training will cover the basics of performance measurement and looks at frameworks to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes, definition of performance indicators and data sources. The course will provide ways into the analysis and reporting of performance information and its incorporation in a number of critical management processes such as project management, stakeholders engagement, strategic planning, proposal writing, and effective communication among others. The course will end up with an open discussion of the challenges and common problems in M&E systems

Learning Outcomes

• Increased understanding of the inter-linkages, dependencies and distinction between planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Increased understanding of what does Results-Based Monitoring entail
• Increased conceptual and logic-modeling capacities in designing development projects
• Learn how to develop a Monitoring & Evaluation Plan.
• Have developed a deeper understanding of the characteristics of effective M&E and M&E systems
• Equipping participants with the practical skills and the confidence needed to deliver the functions of M&E systems more effectively
• Understand the various types of data collection tools and their proper usages

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English.
• Trainers are bilingual English / Arabic.

http://bk-eg.com/planning-monitoring-and-evaluation-for-development-resultsform/?

A commitment to performance measurement has become essential throughout the nonprofit sector, foundations, government and other nongovernmental organizations in response to demands for increased accountability, pressures for improved quality and customer service, and mandates to “do more with less,”. There is also an emerging drive to strengthen the capacity for results oriented management among professional public and nonprofit administrators.

Demonstrating results achieved is required to be accountable to project’s beneficiaries in one hand and to funding partners on the other. Applying proper project design practices and setting-out a monitoring and evaluation framework are not important only to demonstrate accountability but also to report progress, manage project’s activities, apply for additional funding and to communicate development change more effectively. Furthermore, in order to stand-out of the competition, organizations need not only to build results-oriented culture but to strive towards greater outcome-level changes targeting improved welfare for their project’s beneficiaries.

The training will cover the basics of performance measurement and looks at frameworks to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes, definition of performance indicators and data sources. The course will provide ways into the analysis and reporting of performance information and its incorporation in a number of critical management processes such as project management, stakeholders engagement, strategic planning, proposal writing, and effective communication among others. The course will end up with an open discussion of the challenges and common problems in M&E systems

The training will cover the basics of performance measurement and looks at frameworks to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes, definition of performance indicators and data sources. The course will provide ways into the analysis and reporting of performance information and its incorporation in a number of critical management processes such as project management, stakeholders engagement, strategic planning, proposal writing, and effective communication among others. The course will end up with an open discussion of the challenges and common problems in M&E systems

Learning Outcomes

• Increased understanding of the inter-linkages, dependencies and distinction between planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Increased understanding of what does Results-Based Monitoring entail
• Increased conceptual and logic-modeling capacities in designing development projects
• Learn how to develop a Monitoring & Evaluation Plan.
• Have developed a deeper understanding of the characteristics of effective M&E and M&E systems
• Equipping participants with the practical skills and the confidence needed to deliver the functions of M&E systems more effectively
• Understand the various types of data collection tools and their proper usages

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• Presentations, training course materials and hand-outs are in English.
• Trainers are bilingual English / Arabic.

http://bk-eg.com/planning-monitoring-and-evaluation-for-development-resultsform/?