To rebuild a new Lebanon with stronger governance, standards, and capacity requires equipping non-for-profit organizations and the broader ecosystem with knowledge and development opportunities.

The ZP Public Office is delighted to join forces with our co-grantor to roll-out a knowledge platform of training seminars to strengthen organizations working with communities. We look forward to having you with us in our dedicated development sessions!

Knowledge platform for the local ecosystem

CONSULT OUR RESOURCES

Our virtual capacity building curriculum has been designed with consultative recommendations from multiple local community organizations. Our repertoire is especially focused on:

  • Brand leadership
  • Empowering project constituents
  • Women-centricity


All our training and development sessions are hosted live over Zoom and are made available on The Zovighian Partnership YouTube Channel in the Arabic and English languages for public use. Join us!

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    Designing high-impact communications strategies

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    Strategies
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    Developing co-equal partnerships with constituents

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    Partnerships
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    Building women-centered organizations

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    Organizations

Date: July 18, 2022 | 16:00-17:00 (Beirut time)

In our ZP Public Office Knowledge Platform training seminar, ZP Co-founder and Managing Director Lynn Zovighian hosted expert speakers who shared their practical recommendations for effective storytelling to local NGOs. This seminar welcomed founders and team leaders from 88 local NGOs in the Middle East. The Arabic and English versions have been published on The Zovighian Partnership YouTube Channel.

Key newsworthy themes: Pitching relevant stories and themes is critical to interest media stakeholders

Understanding your media goals as a community-facing organization will bolster your storytelling

The five T’s: Best practices to increase your chances of getting published when proposing a story to a media partner

  1. Infuse your stories with passion and resonance so they become compelling narratives that capture the attention of readers
  2. Understand the intricacies of the newsworthy cycle to navigate the competitive media landscape
  3. Craft unique compelling stories to make a lasting impact
Infographic about gender gap

Date: July 11, 2022 | 10:00-11:00 (Beirut time)

In our ZP Public Office Knowledge Platform training seminar, ZP Co-founder and Managing Director Lynn Zovighian presented recommendations for local NGOs to audit their organizations and empower women in their teams and leadership. This seminar welcomed founders and team leaders from 65 local NGOs in the Middle East. The Arabic and English versions have been published on The Zovighian Partnership YouTube Channel.

Adopting employment practices that challenge brain drain, community eradication, & enforce sustainability

Integrating values into your organizational model and culture

Recognizing and penalizing unprofessional behavior, favoritism, abuses of power in organizations

  1. Is our organization vision, mission, and purpose coherent with our organization model and culture?
  2. How can organization modeling collect imperative gender data?
  3. How can an organization audit help define new human capital policies?
Infographic about gender gap

Date: April 11, 2022 | 15:00-16:00 (Beirut time)

In our training seminar on our newly-launched knowledge platform, Gender Consultant Abir Chebaro with ZP Co-founder and Managing Director Lynn Zovighian present strategies to adopt gender sensitive language in organizations as a first step to authentic gender mainstreaming. This seminar is especially relevant for organization leaders.The Arabic and English versions have been published on The Zovighian Partnership YouTube Channel.

Introducing gender mainstreaming for local community-facing organizations

Embracing gender mainstreaming in organizations step by step

Adopting gender sensitive language as the first step to gender mainstreaming

  1. Why must we adopt a gender lens?
  2. What is gender mainstreaming?
  3. What are the degrees of gender sensitive language?
  4. What are the evolutionary phases of gender mainstreaming in organizations?
  5. What are the key steps in the gender mainstreaming cycle?
Infographic about gender gap

Date: March 28, 2022 | 15:00-16:00 (Beirut time)

In our inaugural training seminar, ZP Co-founder and Managing Director Lynn Zovighian welcomed ZP Senior Expert Advisor Rebecca Riccio for a virtual conversation on values and accountability parameters for organizations to strengthen their deep listening and elevate their community relationships as co-equal decision-makers. This seminar is especially relevant for organization leaders, community change makers, researchers, and policy makers. It has been published in Arabic and English on The Zovighian Partnership YouTube Channel.

Elevating women constituents as co-equals in decision making

Disrupting traditional empowerment: From passive beneficiaries to co-equal partners

Empowering women constituents to become co-designers in proposal writing

  1. Why must we listen deeply to women?
  2. What is the aspirational journey to become grounded & accountable deep listeners?
  3. How should our relationships with constituents & communities evolve?
  4. How does deep listening disrupt traditional empowerment mechanisms?
  5. What does it take?
Infographic about listening to women and merging strategy with equity and social justice

We are delighted to welcome you to our dedicated training seminars to strengthen and enable local organizations.

All seminars require an RSVP to attend. Sessions will be recorded and published for public use.