This July, IFES will gather 30 to 35 women’s advocates from Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen to conduct a two-day training in Beirut, Lebanon on how to better understand and fully utilize data previously released through our Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (SWMENA) project surveys.

The SWMENA project is composed of nationwide surveys that determine the social, political and economic standing of women in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon. This data is then shared with local women’s advocacy groups along with training on how to use the data to advance their causes.  

The two-day training in Lebanon will introduce the participants to information graphics (infographics). Information graphics is emerging as an important skill for visual representation of complex information and data. It is a powerful way to help explain complex statistics and relationships in data findings.

The training will focus on IFES’ SWMENA survey data. During the training the new SWMENA website will be showcased, using infographics, fusion charts and research tools making previously released survey findings accessible and easy to use for women’s advocacy and development work in each country.

Participants will learn how to produce professionally designed infographics which take complex survey data and visually simplifies it for use in presentations, guides and handbooks for key stakeholders such as policymakers, students, media and academics.

Participants will interact with other advocates from each of the three countries, allowing them to share experiences, build networks and provide advice and guidance beyond training. The data on the new SWMENA website will be accessible after the training to ensure constant access to information and sustainability of advocacy efforts.

For more information on this event, please contact Ambar Zobairi at azobairi@ifes.org.