Arab Network for NGOs

"Training of Arab trainers specialized in the application of the methodology of participatory self-assessment"

Arab Network in cooperation with the Arab Historical Society of Kuwait, held a training workshop specializing in "training of Arab trainers specialized in the application of the methodology of participatory self-assessment", in Kuwait, during 18-20 December, 2011.

“The interaction of the Civil Society with the new revolutionary changes”

On June 26 2011, the Arab Network for NGOs organized a roundtable at the headquarters of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development. The meeting was attended by 26 participants, all of them concerned with the Civil Society. Discussions relied on a background paper prepared by Dr. Amani Kandil and sent to the invitees a week before the event. Participants were requested to develop recommendations aimed at feeding a future strategy capable of meeting the new reality and the revolutionary changes, and enabling the Civil Society to playing a more effective role in the forthcoming period.

What is the role played by the Civil Society?

A critical reading of the reality and the literature

By Dr. Amani Kandil

The present reflection comes at the end of the first decade in the third millennium, and aims at presenting a critical reading of both academic and political discourses that prevailed about the Civil Society in connection to the ongoing process of socio-economic reform and democratic change. Actually, it is possible to say now that the representation of the Civil Society and its potentials in operating change were quite exaggerated.