Projects
An interactive "learning-by-doing" approach to oral history. It highlights oral history's role in conflict transformation by capturing diverse voices, documenting narratives, and promoting understanding about the past.
A project in partnership with forumZFD.
Steps was responsible for:
Leading and facilitating the review process of the guide, including facilitating peer review workshops, and setting the knowledge development process with the team involved.
Co-developing the content alongside the team involved, with a special focus on conflict transformation.
Designing the website and ensuring accessibility and user-friendliness.
Check out the website Reimagine the Past to access the guide and learn more about the transformative power of oral history.
Steps was responsible for designing and facilitating field research to ensure the voice and perspectives of adolescents, caregivers and stakeholders informs the SAP program design with a second objective to inform advocacy actions on the situation facing adolescents inside Syria.
A project implemented in partnership with Save the Children.
The consultations aimed to explore the adolescents’ experiences, priorities and needs stemming from the Syria conflict and the situation in Lebanon. More specifically, identifying:
Adolescents main aspirations and priorities, assets and capacities that will help them fulfil their aspirations and priorities.
Key barriers for adolescents to fulfil their aspirations and priorities, and their suggested solutions to overcome those barriers.
Caregiver’s and key stakeholders’ perspectives on the situation facing adolescents, their attitudes and perceptions towards adolescents.
Development of a Guidance Tool - Field Research
Steps was responsible for designing and implementing field research for creating guidance tools on conflict prevention, peace building and social cohesion programming with adolescents in the Arab region.
A project implemented in partnership with Save the Children.
Steps was responsible for supporting partners in implementing community assessment, supporting their organizational development, coaching delivery of workshops and assessing impact of Active Citizens project.
A project implemented in partnership with the British Council.
This process studied the impact of the Active Citizens project on the teachers, students and their surrounding community in Chekka, Zgharta, Klayaat and Rmeich. Steps implemented 5 focus group discussions (FDGs) and 9 in-depth interviews, covering as well the impact of the 8 social action projects (SAPs) supported by the project.
Reflection and Assessment of "Rainbow of Hope II" project
Steps was responsible for designing and facilitating the reflection of the project in three main areas in Lebanon.
A project implemented in partnership with Search for Common Ground.
Steps was responsible for designing and implementing the evaluation process for the Active Citizens (AC) program in Lebanon, with a focus on Most Significant Change, titled "Active Citizens Impact Quality Evaluation Study Report".
A project implemented in partnership with the British Council.
The evaluation looks at the past AC journey in terms of evaluation, learning and measuring the impact of the programme in local communities through CSOs, private sector, secondary public schools as well as with higher education and recommends future directions in Active Citizens.
The report starts with the background of AC in Lebanon, presents the most significant change stories that were collected and then proposes areas of improvement and key recommendations for British Council.
The most significant change stories were collected through in-depth interviews with key stakeholders ranging from AC facilitators, programme team, and partners.
Working with Adolescents in Conflict Settings
A training and coaching program for frontline staff working with adolescents. Steps designed and delivered the workshop for frontline staff and partners in four countries: Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon. In addition to adapting the content and tools to fit online modality and delivering it remotely.
A project implemented in partnership with Save the Children.
Women Take the Lead
Designing and facilitating a series of workshops over the course of five years around communication skills, transformational leadership, dialogue, conflict management, transitional justice with a gender perspective, negotiation and mediation, etc.
A project implemented in partnership with Women Now, elbarlament and Choose Love.
Dealing with the Past
Over the past eight years, Steps has been extensively engaged in developing materials and training different groups on dealing with the past, the memory of the civil war, with Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) specialists, history teachers, NGO activists and youth.
Each year, Steps facilitates three cycles on Memory of War for young people from Lebanon. A project in partnership with forumZFD.
Active Citizens
Steps was engaged in different interventions around Active Citizenship, with its core team members being Master and National trainers on Active Citizens toolkit. The experience varies from designing and delivering facilitators development workshops, designing and facilitating the networking event for British Council partners from different countries in the MENA region, Africa, Europe and the UK, designing and training facilitators from Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, and Yemen on the Active Citizens toolkit.
A project implemented in partnership with the British Council across many years.
Dialogue Facilitation for Women Groups on Reconciliation and Peacebuilding
Steps designed and facilitated 135 dialogue sessions for 250 women community members in Aarsal, Al Qaa Baalback, Tripoli, Aakar, Hasbayya, Khayzaran, Damour, Ein Remeneh, Cheyyah, Haret Naemeh, Batloun, and Mazraat Chouf.
A project implemented in partnership with UN Women, KAFA and Peace Labs.
Delivering Empowerment Workshops for Women
Promoting and delivering workshops for disenfranchised women in Lebanon, as part of the global program IMAGINE, designed to empower women in challenging life circumstances to envision and create new possibilities for their life, family and community.