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Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Persian Edition)
Leading to Choices:A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2003) (194 pages)
Persian Edition 0-9710922-4-9 $24.95
Authors: Mahnaz Afkhami, Ann Eisenberg, and Haleh Vaziri
In consultation with: Suheir Azzouni, Ayesha Imam, Amina Lemrini, and Rabea Naciri
Translated by: Naghmeh Zarbafian
Adapted and tested by: Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
Edited by: Hormoz Hekmat and Mehrangiz Kar
The Persian edition of the Leading to Choices manual ( درجستجوی حق انتخاب: آموزه های رهبری برای زنان )
has been used by WLP and our partner organization Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) in leadership training workshops conducted with women in Afghanistan and in refugee camps in Pakistan. Afghan participants are using the handbook to collectively develop strategies and solutions for improving women's rights in Afghanistan. Workshop participants plan to open schools for refugee girls and to establish educational programs for illiterate women throughout the country. Other workshop participants are developing strategies for addressing common regional issues such as the trafficking of children and the negative effects of a drug-based economy on women's lives. Many of the Afghan refugees participating in the training are applying their leadership skills in the reconstruction and nation-building of Afghanistan.
Leading to Choices:A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2003) (194 pages)
Persian Edition 0-9710922-4-9 $24.95
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Stories from the field
Prototype Persian Course with Participants from Iran and Afghanistan
From January-March 2004, four leading Afghan and Iranian participants worked together over a ten-week period to develop, test and adapt the curriculum for the Persian eCourse.
Two Iranian women with strong backgrounds in women's rights education and advocacy were trained as facilitators for the future eCourse in Iran.
Iranian Women's Rights Organizations Gather during Multimedia Leadership Workshop
September 2006: Twelve women leaders from seven Iranian women’s rights organizations gathered together from August 30 – September 1, 2006 to take part in a leadership training workshop using the Persian Leading to Choices multimedia curriculum.
During the workshop, participants explored ways of raising issues pertaining to women’s rights that cannot be openly discussed. One scenario involved two women waiting for a bus during which an older woman activist opens a conversation with a young girl and gradually goes on to discuss reproductive rights and the unfairness of divorce laws.
Participants also learned about the use of technology for advocacy and enacted role play scenarios to hone their negotiation skills.
WLP and Afghan Institute of Learning Convene Institute for Women’s Leadership in Kabul
WLP and its Afghan partner the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) convened the Afghan Roaming Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers from April 9-13, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. AIL provides educational programs in health, human rights, leadership, and literacy for Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan's refugee camps. The Institute was the product of joint efforts between WLP and AIL to counteract severe political and social discrimination facing women in Afghanistan by helping them gain skills to be more effective advocates for women's rights, social justice, and equal participation in decision-making.
Women in Iran Develop Participatory Leadership Skills in eLearning Course
WLP implemented an eight-week Persian online distance learning course on developing participatory leadership skills for women’s rights activists in Iran from January 3 - March 7, 2005. This was WLP’s first full-length online course conducted in Persian. WLP has previously conducted courses in English and is now testing a prototype Arabic course.
Eight women based in Iran participated, including heads of women’s organizations, educators, and experienced trainers. They participated despite a climate of government crackdown and imprisonment of internet activists and bloggers.
