Our network in the Middle East and North Africa region has a strong focus on supporting a well-functioning, independent civil society sector that has the capacity to develop and execute their own local-level initiatives. Together with our network of partners, we promote democratic governance and engage civil society across the region during times of conflict and peace.
We work with our network to advocate and promote:
- citizen engagement
- good governance
- the peaceful resolution of differences and conflict
- rule of law
- transparency and accountability
- women’s empowerment
Local Partners
Partners has affiliate centers in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Yemen and committed partnerships with local organizations across the region. Our network brings organizations, activists, and entrepreneurs together for collective action and coalition-building to advance social cohesion and empower marginalized groups to have a say in the decisions that affect them the most.
Strengthening Implementation of the Personal Status Law in Bahrain (2019-Present)
Bahrain
This program supports the implementation of Bahrain’s unified personal status law through engagement with youth, legal professionals, parliamentarians, and the broader public. The personal status law governs matters of marriage, family, inheritance, citizenship, and other related areas.
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Work Empowerment for Women in Iraq (2019-2022)
Iraq
During the last decade, the social and economic status of Iraqi women has dramatically declined, forcing them into roles that are hidden from the civic and public sphere.
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Promoting and Enhancing Local Stabilization in Yemen (2018-2021)
Yemen
Through the Promoting and Enhancing Local Stabilization in Yemen (PELSY) program, PartnersGlobal and PartnersYemen are working to provide locally legitimate authorities with strategies and skills that will help them address a wide range of community needs.
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Yemen Rapid Response Support (2018-2021)
Yemen
PartnersGlobal and PartnersYemen are working to build the capacity of civil society organizations and local authorities to collaboratively lead future stabilization efforts.
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Enhancing Citizen Participation in Building Social Cohesion in Yemen (2018-2021)
Yemen
PartnersGlobal is working to reduce conflict and promote social cohesion by enhancing the capacity of local religious leaders, educators, and civil society in Yemen.
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Enhancing the Role of Citizens and Religious Leaders in Yemen's Political Transition (2017-2020)
Yemen
To complement the existing national transition in Yemen, Partners is facilitating a bottom-up dialogue process to give ordinary Yemenis a voice in creating solutions to the ongoing crisis.
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Empowering Kuwaiti Women in Politics (2017-2019)
Kuwait
PartnersGlobal has been working for several years with women leaders and women-led civil society organizations in Kuwait to push the conversation around women’s rights and empowerment forward, and to actively address persistent barriers that prevent women from accessing decision-making processes.
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Snapshot: Yemeni citizens lead community rehabilitation
Yemen
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When refugee and host country kids sing together
Lebanon
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Celebrating women mediators in Yemen on International Peace Day
Yemen
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Are we second class citizens?
Bahrain
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How Yemeni media can change the narrative on women
Yemen
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Reverse the Terrorist Designation of Ansar Allah in Yemen
Yemen
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Learn more about the tools, approaches and resources related to our work in the Middle East & North Africa.
Resources
Engaging Narratives for Peace Guide
The Narratives for Peace Guide is a call for the peacebuilding community to conscientiously analyze our own narratives a...
Building Sustainable Peace in Yemen: How Community Engagement Can Support National Stability
Yemen has been embroiled in conflict for the better part of the last six years. Deteriorating e...
Signature Approaches
Narratives for Peace
To effectively promote social change and bring different groups of people together, we have to start by engaging narratives.
Pathways to Sustainable Mediation
Pathways to Sustainable Mediation is a peer-learning based program to support sophisticated Mediation Promoters to build long-term, sustainable mediation programs in their own contexts.
Resiliency+
Around the globe, government restrictions on freedoms of speech, assembly, and association are changing the operating environments for civil society organizations (CSOs).