Lina Abou Habib
Country: 
Lebanon
Associated organisations: 
International Organization
Professions: 
Advisor
Coordinator
Director
Trainer
Field(s) of expertise: 
Activism
Advocacy
Awareness Raising
Citizenship
Networking
Training
Areas of Impact: 
Gender Equality

Personal information

Lina Abou Habib
Executive Director

Contact information (Work)

Women’s Learning Partnership
+961 1 611079 & +961 1 612924
+961 3 615046
lahabib@learningpartnership.org
http://www.learningpartnership.org

Community/Lebanon Impact

  • Actively linking the women’s movement in Lebanon to sister activists in the region and abroad.
  • Contributing to shaping of feminist public struggles related to women’s rights.
  • Mentoring young feminists.

Work history

Previous Professions: 
  • 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.

Major Achievements

Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.): 
  • 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.

Competences & Skills

Field(s) of Expertise: 
  • Gender, Citizenship
  • Economic Rights
  • Leadership
  • Political Participation
  • Research
  • Programme Development and Implementation
Languages: 
  • Arabic
  • English
  • French