Projects
Facilitation of National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism
Steps was part of the national team of facilitators for the different pillars of the national strategy that was implemented over the course of one year.
Future Together Now ll Project
Designing and facilitating the launching of the project with partner organizations, evaluation, planning of second phase, documentation of workshops and the closure of the project over the course of two years.
A project implemented in partnership with forumZFD.
Supporting Women Peace Initiatives in Bekaa
Steps was responsible for designing and developing capacity building programs for more than 20 women peace initiatives focusing on organizational management skills such as strategic planning, project cycle management, financial management, human resources and reporting. Initiatives that stem from women’s needs and desire for change and reflect skills and experiences from previous trainings.
A project implemented in partnership with Women Now and elbarlament.
Organizational Development for a Local NGO
Steps was responsible for designing and developing an organizational assessment process and report looking at all aspects of the organization (culture, team, values, programming, relations & power, etc.), along with a findings report with practical recommendations moving forward for the organization.
An interactive and engaging resource designed for animators to work on conflict transformation and peace education with children during summer camps and informal activities. Until 2025, around 30 organizations in Lebanon have been trained on Hawli w Hawaleye and implement it with children from their communities.
A project in partnership with forumZFD.
Steps was responsible for:
Creating interactive activities for children aged 7 to 12, fostering personal growth, non-violent communication, conflict transformation skills required to cope with conflict, and play and sing during activities.
Creating an Animators Development Toolkit to enhance animators’ skills in conflict transformation, team dynamics, and understanding children's’ age group dynamics and contexts.
Facilitating the learning journey for groups, starting with the Animators Development Workshop (5 days), then HwH Activities Workshop (3 days), and shadowing the teams implementing HwH to support them.
Steps continues to facilitate yearly Hawli w Hawaleye learning journeys to groups and organizations working with children.
A guide that focuses on knowledge and essential tools for community mediation, aspiring to be a reference for peace building activists, and to present the Syrian experience as one in the area of mediation within local frameworks.
A project in partnership with Mobaderoon and Swiss Peace.
Steps was responsible for:
Collecting and presenting mediation stories from community activists who lived through conflict and mediation in their environments.
Presenting the results and conclusions of a critical review of different mediation schools and references, and an attempt to add a new theory of change specific to this guide, based on a transformative approach and theory of human needs and non-violent communication.
A participatory and discovery-based toolkit for volunteers, activists, teachers, or anyone interested to know more about conflict transformation and the culture of non-violence. The aim is to make conflict transformation concepts and applications accessible to people in different communities.
A project in partnership with forumZFD.
Steps was responsible for:
Updating the content and activities of the previous toolkit, including a review process with those who implemented the toolkit over the years.
Designing the toolkit in a visually engaging and user-friendly way.
Steps continues to facilitate yearly Eye not for an Eye workshops for activists, educators, and facilitators engaged within their communities.