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Navigating a Changing and Shrinking Civic Space: A Toolkit for Local and Community Women’s Organisations and Initiatives in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Tunisia

This policy brief calls for a gendered, intersectional, and long-term approach to the refugee response in Turkey, particularly concerning Syrian refugees. Drawing on CTDC’s research, it highlights the systemic neglect of women, girls, and LGBTQI refu...

This policy brief provides a framework for inclusive and context-sensitive approaches to LGBTQ rights in the MENA region. It critiques the limitations of Western-imposed identity categories and proposes an alternative, locally grounded methodology: S...

Following the public display of a rainbow flag during a Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo on 22 September 2017, Egypt launched an aggressive crackdown against individuals suspected of being LGBT. Over 60 people were arrested, many subjected to arbitrar...

This policy brief examines the legal, political, and social landscape shaping LGBTQI rights in Tunisia, and outlines how civil society organisations can play a central role in advocating for gender and sexual freedoms.

This policy brief addresses the urgent rise of HIV/AIDS cases in the MENA region, especially among marginalised groups such as men who have sex with men (MSM), LGBTQ individuals, women, and refugees. It identifies the systemic stigma, criminalisation...

This policy brief builds on CTDC’s earlier report Conceptualising Sexualities in the MENA Region, proposing a practical shift in advocacy strategies from identity-based frameworks like SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) to a more context-s...

This policy brief examines the deeply entrenched practice of honour killings across the MENA region, highlighting the structural, legal, and cultural factors that enable these crimes. The authors argue that honour killings are a form of gender-based...

This policy brief examines the gaps in legal, psychosocial, and community-based support for non-normative refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, particularly those from Arabic-speaking countries.

The Ma3azef Accountability and Safeguarding Assessment was conducted by the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC) in response to a public call for an independent process following allegations of sexual exploitation and harm at...

This report challenges the application of rigid LGBTQI identity frameworks in humanitarian, advocacy, and development contexts across the MENA region.

This report presents the findings of a gender-sensitivity assessment of Syrian civil society organisations (CSOs) conducted across Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

This research, produced by CTDC in partnership with Release Me and ARI, captures the voices of 196 Syrian women across various regions to explore their roles in peacebuilding and political participation. Using an intersectional feminist lens, the stu...

This report presents a qualitative gender analysis of the conditions faced by Syrian refugees in Turkey, with a specific focus on women, girls, and LGBTQ individuals.

Developed by the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC) in partnership with the FemPawer Consortium, this toolkit offers an intersectional feminist guide for navigating and resisting shrinking civic space in Arabic-speaking cou...

The CTDC Political Participation Toolkit, titled “Political Participation through an Intersectional Feminist Lens: Practical Tools for Building Transnational Feminist Movements”, is a comprehensive resource developed by the Centre for Transnational D...

The CTDC Toolkit for Trainers in Arabic-Speaking Countries, titled “Trainings on Gender, Sexuality, and the Body”, is a comprehensive resource developed by the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC). Published in 2018, this too...

The CTDC Toolkit, titled “Organisational Safeguarding Best Practices and Procedures: A Toolkit Towards Transnational Intersectional Feminist Accountability Frameworks to Respond to Exploitation, Assault, Abuse, Harassment and Bullying”, is a comprehe...