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العربية
Lina Abou Habib
Personal information
Title:
Executive Director Contact information (work)
Organization/Institution:
Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action
Postbox:
165302
Address:
Mathaf area, near Volvo Co.
Postal code:
Achrafieh 1100 – 2030
Landline:
961 1 611079 & 961 1 612924
Fax:
961 1 611079 & 961 1 612924
Mobile phone:
961 3 615046
Work email address:
labouhabib@crtda.org.lb
Work webpage:
http://www.crtda.org.lb Education
Master's degree, Public Health, 1985, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Areas of Expertise
Gender, Citizenship, Economic Rights, Leadership, and Political Participation
Research
Programme Development and Implementation
Languages:
Arabic
English
French
Work history
Executive Director, 1999 - present, Collective for Research and Training on Development – Action (CRTD-A).
Programme advisor, 2002 - present, Women Learning Partnership.
Country programme coordinator, 1996 – 1999, Oxfam GB.
Honorary office and memberships
Secretary of the Board of Directors, Association for Women in Development, 2007 - present.
MENA advisor, 2004 - present, Global Fund for Women.
Member of editorial board of the journal Gender and Development, 1996 - present.
Productions
Publications highlights:
- Abou Habib, L. (1998a). Regional perspectives on gender training: The case of MENA. In S.J.R. Cummings, H. van Dam, & M. Valk (Eds.), Gender training: The source book (pp. 55 - 62). Amsterdam: KIT publishers.
- Abou Habib, L. (1998b). The Use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon. Gender and Development 6 (1), 6.
- Abou Habib, L. (1996). Gender and disability: Do not mix. Oxford: Oxfam.
Major achievements:
- Launching and managing the Arab Women’s Right to Nationality Campaign, 2001.
- Co-founding the Collective for Research and Training on Development – Action (CRTD.A), 1999.