News and announcements

Immediate recruitment @ CRTD.A - Research Coordinator

CRTD.A is recruiting a research coordinator to support its current action research on “Strengthening access of rural women cooperatives in Lebanon to internal and external markets”. This research includes three components namely a contextual review and analysis, a mapping of the private sector and a field research targeting rural women cooperatives.

The research coordinator will:

1. Provide support to the three components of the research including support in drawing their specific terms of reference and detailed research framework

Workshop on FBOs and the Market Economy in Lebanon (LSA, CRTD.A and HBF)

The Lebanese Sociology Association and CRTD.A in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation organised a workshop on Saturday 16 January on Faith Based Organisations and the Market Economy in Lebanon.
The workshop was held at YWCA premises and included a luncheon prepared by the Rural Women Cooperatives of Lebanon.

Problems with the virtual server

CRTD.A would like to apologise for the temporary problems we have been experiencing with our virtual server since the 24th of December.
As a result, we are not able to send our usual mass mailings and the LKDG (www.lkdg.org) is momentarily non-operational.
We hope to overcome the problem as soon as possible and we will be informing you once the problem is resolved.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The Nationality Campaign and Equality without Reservation appeal to the new government

Whilst we welcome the nomination of the new cabinet members after a protracted period, the Nationality Campaign and the regional Equality without Reservation Campaign would like to remind the ministerial committee entrusted with the task of writing the Ministerial Declaration of the urgent need to seriously address the issue of citizenship rights and entitlements for women and men.

New call for proposal from the European Delegation: “Investing in People'-Children's participation

The overall objective of this call for proposals is to empower children in playing a leading role in their own development and the development of their communities as well as improving children welfare.
Applicants eligible for the grant are non-profit and non-state actors, international organisations and local authorities.