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Women organizations in Lebanon have a long history of struggle towards gender equality. Perceptions concerning the achievements and status of women in Lebanese society suggests relative progress on issues related to rights and gender equality. This paper proposes an analysis of the status of women in Lebanon based on various indicators highlighting women’s participation in politics and decision-making processes and examining gender equality from the legal perspective and in terms of women’s economic status. It also looks into women’s achievements in terms of gender equality, reviewing some strategies adopted to enhance women’s status in Lebanon and highlighting their limits in the particular Lebanese socio-political context.

This document presents a toolkit for organisations and movements on Achieving Transformative Feminist Leadership. This toolkit is intended to serve not just feminist organisations engaged in issues of human rights and social justice, but also organisations that have programs that focus on women, or are led and staff ed, wholly or in part, by women. It represents much of what CREA have endeavoured to do in their work both within the organisation and with their partners and networks, i.e. bring into focus forms of leadership that encourage – indeed cultivate – an active citizenship and a collective empowerment. With this toolkit, they hope to take another step towards developing individual and organisational leadership practices that are in harmony with a transformative feminist and social justice agenda.

This document presents report on african social development index (ASDI): measuring exclusion for structural transformation. The African Social Development Index (ASDI) is built on the important premise that development should be reflected in improved human conditions. By adopting a life-cycle approach, the ASDI measures the extent of human exclusion in six key dimensions of well-being, including survival, health, education, employment, and means of subsistence and living a decent life after 60. One of the key features of the index is that it can be measured across time and disaggregated by gender and geographical location, thus helping to capture patterns of inequality and exclusion within and between countries. As such, the ASDI offers a new conceptual framework for identifying the drivers of human exclusion in Africa and linking them to better policies in nutrition, education, employment and social protection. As a monitoring and policy tool, the index should help member States devise more inclusive social policies, and guide them in the implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, both of which place a high premium on inclusiveness as a driver of sustainable and equitable development.

This document presents the second Development Challenges Report, coming at a time when the region is passing through a critical historical juncture, attempts to go beyond the numbers to uncover processes that have underpinned mutually reinforcing drivers of social, economic and political exclusion. This report argues that the development model followed in the Arab region can be placed on a more socially just foundation

This document presents a Manual on Social Norms and Change. This manual This manual was produced by the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Chang. The manual draws on a social norm’s perspective. It uses the definition articulated by the social scientist Cristina Bicchieri, and applies the concepts of social expectations, empirical and normative, to determine whether or not FGM is a social norm in a specific context. The manual also uses and adapts some of the outcomes of the UNICEF Course on Advances in Social Norms, 2010-2015, co-chaired by Cristina Bicchieri and Gerry Mackie at the University of Pennsylvania