Takwin wa Tamkin: Women in the Amour mountain range are weaving their own future
Part of the European Union Pilot Action Programme for Rural Development and Agriculture in Algeria (PAP-ENPARD), the Takwin wa Tamkin (training and empowerment) project has helped strengthen networks of rural craftswomen. For two years, experts from Res’Art, a project by the association Femmes en…
Hijra wa Himaya: working in the best interests of child migrants in Morocco
Mamadou, Hamza, Anna, Myriam… They are just a few of the many children and young people from Sub-Saharan Africa who find themselves in extremely vulnerable situations in Morocco each year. After perilous journeys to escape their home countries, they find themselves in a country they know nothing,…
Healing amidst the war: Women-led CSOs step up for Libya’s GBV survivors
In the midst of a global pandemic, under-reported crimes often become further obscured, leaving victims in a state of helplessness and disarray. In Libya, where the plague of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV) has been affecting a worrying number of girls and women, local organisations have…
Green Centre in Azraq refugee camp: Syrian refugees clear the streets for a brighter future
In the middle of the Jordanian desert, a refugee camp home to almost 37,000 Syrian refugees, has managed to establish itself as an exemplary model of environmentally-friendly waste management. Through the EU-funded Environmentally Responsible Solid Waste Management programme, Azraq camp has been…
Be aware of disinformation: Think before you share
No one wants to be the person who contaminates their friends’ social media feeds with conspiracy theories or disinformation. Use this list to make sure you stay ahead of disinformation!
Cartooning for Peace: Cartooning for peace and freedom in high schools !
At the Okba Ibn Naffaâ high school, located in Kairouan, a city in central Tunisia, few students have ever been interested in cartooning and even fewer have sketched this kind of humorous drawing, heavy with meaning and loaded with messages. Introducing young people to this form of freedom of…
Jordanian innovators breathe hope back into a Covid-19 stricken world
As the world seems to have been sent into freefall with the Covid-19 crisis, a group of Jordanian innovators has come together to bring hope to their community, by creating open source face shields and emergency respirators for healthcare workers and local hospitals. Engineers from the EU-funded…
Coronavirus pandemic: the EU is fully committed to the Southern Mediterranean countries during this unprecedented health crisis
“COVID-19 will reshape our world. We don’t yet know when the crisis will end. But we can be sure that by the time it does, our world will look very different. How different will depend on the choices we make today. […] Only by pulling together and cooperating across borders can we beat the virus…