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Middle East Hub - Project News

Conditional Cash Transfer Workshop

On 30th and 31st January 2008, the Social Research Center (SRC) in Cairo hosted a workshop aimed at gathering insights and experiences for the design and implementation of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) pilot in Egypt. Both local and foreign experts (from Latin America and the UK) discussed current CCT programmes and how they could be adapted to suit the Egyptian social, political and economic landscape. See Pathways Events for more...

Talking Empowerment Workshops

On 4th and 5th January 2008, the Hub had their first Talking Empowerment in
Arabic workshop in Cairo. This was a meeting of editors and translators working on the Gender readers in Arabic. Also present were some translation theory academics.

From 13th to 15th January a second workshop was held in Om Durman in Sudan. The meeting included feminists, academics, activists and politicians, and development workers and addressed the difficulties of translating gender and empowerment both as a language and as a political project. It was very well attended with about 30
participants and included many graduate students.

From 15 to 18th January the Hub held a feminist story telling workshop conducted by four trainers from the Women and Memory Forum. The meeting was oversubscribed and included actors, journalists, poets, students and feminists. It was well reported in the press and resulted in 20 extremely well written stories, three of which will feature in a Pathways programme performance by Women and Memory in June.