IWSAW designs and implements development programs aimed at promoting literacy and enhancing social and political awareness.
The Basic Living Skills Program is a non-formal integrated educational kit in Arabic, geared towards illiterate and semi-literate women in the Arab world, available in both hard and digitized form. Its users are social workers and educators affiliated to non-governmental organizations, governmental institutions and international organizations involved in community development programs. (Details.)
Empowering Arab Women through Literacy is a series of 12 second level literacy booklets based on IWSAW’s Basic Living Skills Program. Through short stories, it addresses issues such as civic education and conflict control, women’s empowerment, violence against women, health, and the environment. (Details.)
In view of the precarious living conditions of incarcerated women in Lebanon and the overwhelming needs observed and expressed by these women, the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at LAU initiated rehabilitation and intensive vocational training programs in the Lebanese women’s prisons. Lebanese and non-Lebanese incarcerated women benefited from the program, namely in Tripoli.