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Projects
Projects
01 Jun 2023
WANA Think Tank School
The West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute is launching a project entitled: “WANA Think Tank School”. This project seeks to engage six early-career Jordanians launching their careers as policy analysts in think tanks or civil society organisations. The WANA Think Tank School will provide participan...
18 May 2023
Increasing the Resilience of Caregivers and Families to Prevent Violent Extremism
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The West Asia-North Africa Institute, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Iraq, aims to develop training materials within a comprehensive facilitator's guide. This guide is designed to enhance the community's ability to counter the messages and methods used by...
01 Jun 2022
Capitalisation Exercise with Sector-Based Experts in Juvenile Justice, Iraq
Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh), one of the leading agencies in Access 2 Justice programming in Iraq, commissioned West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) to conduct a capitalisation exercise with sector-based experts in juvenile justice. The exercise distilled the promising practices and lessons le...
01 Feb 2022
Building Bridges and Blending Fringes: Social Protection for People with Disabilities in Karak, Jordan
Overview:
This project seeks to empower a community-based organisation (CBO) in Karak, Jordan - Mateen Charitable Organisation of Karak (MCOK) - to advocate for People with Disabilities (PWDs) using evidence-based research. By using the most effective tools currently at hand, the WANA Institute se...
01 Feb 2022
Public Policies for Innovation in Jordan: Realities and Ambitions
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Jordan Office and West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) are launching a joint project entitled: "Public Policies for Innovation in Jordan: Realities and Ambitions" The project seeks to engage eight Jordanians from diverse professional and expertise backgrounds to pro...
01 Sep 2021
Understanding the Linkages between Climate, Human Security, and Gender in Lebanon and Jordan
Increase and consolidate evidence on peacebuilding approaches to local development challenges including but not limited to natural resource management and their gender-disproportionate impacts on human security and social stability in Lebanon and Jordan. The projects aims to a) understand and highli...
01 Apr 2021
Rethinking Humanitarian Aid for Refugees as Investment in Urban Water and Sanitation
This project is an international interdisciplinary initiative between engineers and social scientists in Jordan and the UK, designed to bring new knowledge and direction to global policy and practice on the settlement of and assistance to refugees. It addresses the critical issue of forced migration...
01 Mar 2021
Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security: Refugees and Forced Migrants in Focus
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Jordan Office and West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) have launched “Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security: Refugees and Forced Migrants in Focus”. It follows the success of the project, “Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security Issues”, completed by the partners in Dec...
01 Jan 2021
Towards Inclusive Participation of Vulnerable Women and People with Disabilities in Social and Economic Life
The West Asia - North Africa Institute (WANA), in partnership with IM Swedish Development Partner, has been implementing “Towards Inclusive Participation of Vulnerable Women and People with Disabilities in Social and Economic Life” since 2019.
This five-year programme aims to increase the skills of ...
03 Sep 2020
Jordan Needs Assessment Assistance Report
The WANA Institute researchers completed and analysed 600 questionnaires from the governorates of Irbid, Karak, and the capital, Amman, reflecting the respective demographic diversity of the north, south, and centre regions of the country and produced the Jordan Needs Assessment Assistance Report.
01 Jun 2020
Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security Issues
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Jordan Office and West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) launched a joint project entitled: “Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security Issues.” The project seeks to engage with 5-8 young Jordanian experts and professionals from diverse backgrounds to produce public policy ...
01 May 2020
CASCADES: Cascading Climate Risks Towards Adaptive and Resilient European Societies
CASCASDES is a project that builds on the system of exploring climate risks with cross-sectoral impact characteristics without consideration to geographical or political boundaries. Through understanding the impacts of climate change on different social and economic sectors, trade, investment, susta...
20 Apr 2020
Policy Analysis: Water, Migration and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
The aim of this undertaking is to develop a paper on water, migration and conflict in the MENA region. The MENA is a hotspot of intraregional and international migration historically and, more recently, unprecedented levels of conflict-induced displacement. The paper aims to build an evidence-base ...
01 Mar 2020
QUA: Empowering Women to Prevent Violent Extremism in Jordan Under the 1325
As the year 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and two years since the launch of the Jordanian National Action Plan (JONAP) to advance the implementation of the resolution in Jordan, the West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) in ...
01 Feb 2020
Training for Change: Empowering Civil Society to Advocate Policies
In order for civil society organisations to use their platform to help solve environmental issues, it requires greater efforts in capacitating them with relevant technical and social tools, knowledge, and skills. This two-year, EU funded project aims to build the capacity of 7 chosen Community Based...
01 Jan 2020
Towards Social and Economic Inclusion of Young Marginalised Women and People with Disabilities
Through a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project, the WANA Institute will equip 80 young people (ages 22 through 30) across the different governorates with the necessary skills to develop analytical reports and practical solutions for pressing issues that contribute to the social and economic e...
01 Nov 2019
Natural Resource Governance in Light of the 2030 Agenda: The case of competition over groundwater in Azraq, Jordan
This project explores the competition over the groundwater available in the region of Azraq, in Eastern Jordan; this is a starting point to assess natural resource governance in light of the 2030 Agenda. The 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is built on five core principle...
01 Oct 2019
Contribute to Encouraging Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Adoption between Jordan and Taiwan
Taiwan is one of the leading countries when it comes to environmental protection and sustainability.* Taiwan’s dedication to environmental protection is a result of their commitment to maintain a healthy and sustainable environment while becoming one of Asia’s richest economies.
The objective of th...
15 Sep 2019
The Strong Cities Network in Lebanon and Jordan: building local P/CVE capacity in the Middle East through community prevention networks.
The overall goal of this two-year Strong Cities Network (SCN) programme is to ensure Strengthened P/CVE activities coordination and delivery in selected municipalities in Lebanon and Jordan. The WANA Institute will build the capacity of municipalities and local PVE networks (PNs) in Jordan, build...
01 Aug 2019
How to transform an idea within the context of climate change into a full-fledged grant proposal?
This project seeks to build on a project implemented by the WANA Institute “Enabling Communities for Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Understanding Gender Roles” with the purpose of continuing the process of mitigating climate change threats. Community-based organisations and youth ambassadors fr...
01 May 2019
Empowering Jordanian Youth to Advocate for SDGs
The project aims to empower 20 Jordanian young persons to advocate for SDGs 5, 11, and 16 through using mobile phone filmmaking.
Activities:
WANA will conduct the selection of 20 Jordanian trainees, based on pre-determined criteria. Trainees are 18 -30 of age. Trainees are from the Balqa Govern...
01 Mar 2019
Renewable Energy for Refugees (RE4R)
The project aims to answer questions for a baseline evaluation on the social acceptance of the idea of transformative solar projects for governmental hospitals, in light of what other priorities are set by the hospital. This is accomplished through measuring the impact of better and efficient energy...
01 Feb 2019
Water and Agriculture in Jordan
This project aims to facilitate a dialogue on sustainable water use between various water users and policy-makers. By understanding each other’s current and future water and agricultural priorities, they will reach a shared list of ideal and pragmatic priorities for the future of water and agricultu...
01 Jan 2019
Towards Inclusive Participation of Vulnerable Women and People with Disabilities in Social and Economic Life
This project aims to increase the skills of young people to advocate about the issues facing young women and persons with disabilities (PwD) in Jordan and actively contribute to policy-making.
01 Sep 2018
Human Security in Action
The WANA Institute will produce ten short videos featuring a broad range of local human security actors. Various topics will include political participation, youth development, women empowerment, employment, education, urban planning, water security, and food security in Jordan. The videos will be d...
15 Aug 2018
Transition towards Renewable Energy
The WANA Institute will analyse the energy transition in the WANA region, focusing on Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. The ensuing baseline report on the region’s energy transition will be based on a comprehensive literature review and primary source data collected t...
01 Sep 2017
Enabling Communities for Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Understanding Gender Roles
This project aims to empower local communities in three governorates to design local climate change adaptation plans. It will also provide a platform for local communities to share these climate change adaptation plans with relevant ministries and municipal councils. The effects of climate change on...
01 Jul 2017
A Practical Assessment of the Investment and Business Climates in Key Refugee Host States
To promote a better understanding of the business and regulatory environment in the principal refugee host states (Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq), with the broader goal of facilitating investment and developing policy recommendations for the relevant authorities.
01 Jun 2017
Impact Study of Migrant Labour Integration in Egypt
To produce an Egypt case study on migrant formal labour market integration scenarios with modelling evidence on the impact of integration on the host state economy.
01 May 2017
Workforce Development for Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Beyond
To study the size of the potential refugee labour market both in Jordan and in a return scenario, to compare the current capacity of the labour market to integrate refugees, and to make projections about how this would change with greater investment and targeted skills training.
01 Jan 2017
Sustainable Development Goals: Jordan and Beyond
The project will provide a framework within which key policy makers can better understand the process of reaching the SDGs, situate them within broader environmental projects already in place and develop roadmaps for conceptualising how they are to be achieved.
31 Dec 2016
The Jordan Civil Society Initiative
The Jordan Civil Society Initiative aims at transforming Jordan’s civil society sector in an active and impactful development stakeholder by building the capacity of NGOs and CSOs for strategy development, programme design, proposal writing, empirical research design, communication, advocacy for res...
24 Nov 2016
Strengthening of Think Tanks, Youth Initiatives and Civil Society Organisations
This project aims at strengthening the capacity of non-governmental stakeholders to deliver results-based development assistance by equipping them with skills, tools and evidence, combined with an overall levelling of the playing field.
01 Sep 2016
Effective Human Security Approaches
This project will work with various stakeholders to develop a Theory of Change for human security efforts that better responds to the emergent threat of violent extremism in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia.
01 Sep 2016
Measuring the Impact of Refugee Economic Empowerment
To study the actual impact of refugee labour market integration and compare it with projections of the hypothetical impact of alternative policy paths.
01 Jul 2016
Labour Rights In Protracted Refugee Crises
To promote refugee self-sufficiency and mitigate dependence on host state and donor assistance through the development of predictive models for harnessing refugees’ economic potential.
01 Feb 2016
Countering Violent Extremism
To develop an empirical research base on the drivers of violent radicalisation in the WANA region and policy recommendations for more effective human security and counter-extremism programming.
01 Feb 2016
2016 Research Agenda
In 2016, the Institute is going to be taking on a number of exciting and dynamic research projects across our three focus areas. This research agenda breaks down the projects that we're going to be taking on this year, outlining what the Institute hopes to acheive, and the driving factors behind th...
28 Jan 2016
From Politics to Policy: Building Regional Resilience in WANA
"From Politics to Policy: Building Regional Resilience in WANA" is a selected collection of the research the Institute undertook in 2015. Dr Erica Harper, the Institute's Executive Director, and Adel Elsayed Sparr, Senior Research Fellow in Human Security, compiled and edited the Volume, which will ...
01 Jan 2016
Delivering Food and Water Security in a Middle East in Flux
New knowledge on how to achieve sustainable agricultural and water sectors balances food and water security and promotes regional development.
01 Jan 2016
Crafting Vulnerability Response Strategies for Climate Change in Jordan
Research results inform climate change adaptation strategies that are better targeted towards the most vulnerable groups, thereby focusing resources and efforts to help increase local community climate change resilience.
01 Jan 2016
Beyond Government
The Polycentric Governance Model (PGM) will seek to address the challenges associated with current models of democracy aid and democratisation by developing an evidence-based, multi-dimensional governance model tailored to the WANA region.
01 Jan 2016
Zakat for Humanitarian Aid and Development
Viable pathways for mobilizing and operationalising zakat for the purposes of development and humanitarian assistance are elaborated and endorsed.
01 Jan 2016
Greening WANA
This project aims to roll out community-based natural resource management techniques that promote conflict resilience, equitable resource sharing and environmental good governance. The expected results include the production of an objective evidence base that drives impactful programme strategy and ...
01 Jul 2015
Comparative Mapping of Traditional Rangeland Management Practices in the WANA Region
Mainstreaming policy and good practice measures contributes to the ecological sustainability of WANA rangelands.
01 Jul 2015
Out of the Middle Income Trap
Evidence on the drivers and opportunity cost of educated outmigration, low female labour force participation and weak private sector growth, and how it influences the policy discourse at the government and multilateral levels.
01 Jul 2015
Contingency Planning for Post-Return Syria
To support the development of evidence- based planning processes and interventions geared towards facilitating sustainable and peaceful transition in post-conflict Syria
01 Jan 2015
Islam and Natural Resources Management
An Islamic natural resource management framework empowers religious leaders and community change-makers to promote environmental resilience, equitable resource sharing and environmental good governance.
01 Jan 2015
Strengthening Women’s Legal Empowerment
Through a strengthened legal protection framework, violence against women decreases and women regularly receive their inheritance and property rights.
01 Jan 2015
A Model for Conflict Resilience
The Conflict Resilience Model (CRM) provides timely, evidence-based, and region-specific guidance on conflict drivers to enable policy-making and interventions that build resilience and reduce conflict vulnerability and sensitivity.