IFLA Middle East and North Africa Regional Division completed the first training programme on advocacy
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
15 Dec 2022
Cooperation Agreements
With the successful first round of the Advocacy Training Module held by IFLA’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Division Committee coming to completion in October this year, IFLA’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Division Committee (RDC) announced two more rounds of the same module to run in January and May.
The training programme on library advocacy held by IFLA’s MENA RDC in cooperation with the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information (AFLI) was completed in October 2022. 45 participants working in public and university libraries in 17 Arab countries attended the three-month training programme. 19 of them completed it successfully, and will now be ambassadors for the course.
Testimonials from participants
Heba Bilal Forming a team and setting priorities and goals are the most important things I learned from this module. The most interesting topic is the sense of goals of the advocacy plan and the team spirit in providing the required support and assistance. I found it difficult to deal with the numbers and statistics, but the team members provided the necessary support, by clarifying their importance to changing behavior. I suggest that libraries and institutions should nominate participants for this training.
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