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The selected organizations

 16 selected organizations:


- Sector I  :  Promoting Citizenship And The Rule of Law

- The Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections whose project focuses on “Promoting The Capacities Of Journalists In Covering Elections” and aims at promoting the transparency of the electoral process as well as training journalists on covering legislative elections in the three phases of preparation, execution and evaluation.
- The Youth Association for Social Awareness (YASA)_ whose project is entitled “A National Campaign For Safe Driving” and aims at raising awareness among young people aged between 15 and 25 on safe driving through TV ads, manuals and an official guide on driving as a precaution against car accidents.
- The Rene Mouawad Foundation whose project aim is to “Raise Awareness Among Young People On Democracy And Human Rights”. It includes training students on the concepts of democracy and human rights through interaction between school and university students and through the establishment of clubs for dialogue on these subjects.
- The Committee for the Follow-Up of Women Issues whose project aims at Raising Awareness On The Image Of Women in schoolbooks through a more positive use of terminology and improving the women's image of in schoolbooks. Part of the project includes training of teachers on these new concepts.
- The Association for Volunteer Services working on “implementing a teaching project to serve others in Lebanese schools” aimed at helping 150 schools to integrate social and volunteer services in their curricula to educate the youth about citizenship and civil commitment.

                                                            

Sector 2- Reconciliation And Intercommunal Dialogue

- The Lebanese Association for Civil Rights, whose project is to “Train Non-Confessional Social Workers” on management, social organization and includes conferences to raise awareness on fighting violence and confessional discrimination, in addition to practical applications on the field and a book for training on non-confessional behavior and values.
- The Arab Images Foundation whose project focuses on the return of the displaced to their villages under the title “Mes Ententes” where two writers-photographers, one Druze and the other Christian, meet with the displaced families to write a bilingual book with photos and texts, organize a photo gallery and make a short documentary.
- A Step Away whose project title is: “The Other A Cultural And Social Production”. It aims at training young professional on all kinds of art production to promote diversity, tolerance and the acceptance of the other in the Lebanese society where difference plays an important role in the issues of tolerance and discrimination.
- The Joint Christian Committee whose project “Dialogue Between Young Lebanese And Young Palestinians To Resolve Conflicts” includes dialogues between confessions in universities and the organization of workshops for university students on human rights and legitimate rights. The project also aims at establishing a network of young Lebanese and Palestinian volunteers.

Sector 3- Supporting Marginalized Groups

- Skoun whose project is entitled: “Prevention Program Against Drug Addiction” among young people and includes sessions for the prevention of this problem in about 30 public schools and in social centers, as well as publications with accurate information on the types and effects of drugs.
- The Lebanese Autism Association whose project is entitled: “Rights Of Children With Special Needs And Autistic Children”. It includes awareness campaigns on early diagnosis and intervention to support the rights of these children by coordinating with other NGOs working on similar subjects and publishing specialized books to raise awareness among the children’s parents…
- The Forum of the Handicapped in North Lebanon, whose project aims at organizing a National Campaign To Implement Law Number 20/2000 For The Disabled and at defending their rights to employment, health, transportation… through mobilizing civil society and  organizing lobbying groups, provided that this law is promoted through ad campaigns and action plans.
- The Committee for the Elimination of Leprosy and Forgotten Diseases in Lebanon whose project is entitled “The Rights Of Leprosy Patients And Their Integration In The Society”; it focuses on raising awareness among citizens on leprosy, its location on the Lebanese territory, and suggestions made to treat patients, in addition to a media campaign on the subject.
- The Association for the Protection of War Children whose project focuses on Improving Accompanying Means Of Young Victims Of Child Abuse and aims at organizing seminars with social workers and judges and at revising books on the subject.
- The Permanent Peace Movement whose project is entitled Justice For Young Delinquents and focuses on studying law number 422 and child rights conventions and on organizing a campaign to reduce the criminal liability age from 7 to 12 years, as well as adopting alternative measure for prison in this early age.
- The Lebanese Council to Resist Violence Against Women whose project is entitled Assisting Women And Children Who Are Victims Of Domestic Violence With The Support Of The Civil Society, and focuses on breaking the silence surrounding the subject and increasing the civil society’s abilities to understand these women and provide them with medical and legal services.