Expand Your Horizons (EYH), a three year USAID-funded project, aims to build the technical and professional capacity of Lebanese organizations and their employees to play a more effective role in their community. This project is made possible by the generous support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Overall Objectives: 
The project aims to achieve this through: 1. Strengthening the capacity of 150 organizations from various sectors and 400 of their employees in selected core skills and competencies through training and follow-on support activities. 2. Increasing communications and networking among participating organizations and individuals.
Activities: 
In order to achieve its goal, EYH will: Identify Partner Organizations EYH will partner with 150 Lebanese organizations from civil society, public sector, and private sector. Organizations will be selected based on a clear and preset criteria, requiring them to sign commitment letters with EYH. Conduct Self-Assessments and Development Plans EYH and partner organizations will identify organizational needs through a self-assessment process covering major components of organizational capacity development and strenghening. EYH will work closely with organizations to develop organizational and individual employee development plans highlighting areas of need for improvement, objectives to be achieved by training, and implement effective applicable follow-on support activities. Deliver Trainings Trainings will be delivered by highly qualified training providers in Lebanon, the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region, and/or the US and Europe based on the needs identified in the assessment process and translated into the Organizational and Individual Development plans. Training activities will range in length from three days to three months. Provide Follow-on Support and Networking EYH will provide post-training support to the organizations’ staff to ensure and capture impact of these training solutions at the individual and organizational levels. Follow-on activities are designed to improve organizational performance and knowledge sharing, as well as establish networks among participating organizations and individuals. For more information, please email us at [email protected] EYH is implemented under the leadership of World Learning, a US non-profit with 30 years’ experience in implementing training programs, AMIDEAST, a US non-profit that has been operating in Lebanon and the MENA region for 42 years, providing educational and training services, as well as Knowledge Development Company, a capacity building firm with over sixty years of regional and international experience.
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Intervention Sector(s):
Training & Capacity Building
Project Location:
Beirut
Lebanon
Beirut LB
Collaboration with Other Organisations
EYH is implemented under the leadership of World Learning, a US non-profit with 30 years’ experience in implementing training programs, AMIDEAST, a US non-profit that has been operating in Lebanon and the MENA region for 42 years, providing educational and training services, as well as Knowledge Development Company, a capacity building firm with over sixty years of regional and international experience.
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