Workshop for families in Dubai
Under the title ‘Building your children’s character: growing in virtues’, a work session was held (November 17) to promote IFFD programs for families in Dubai. The session was conducted by Zeina Trad Barakat, a IFFD moderator based in Lebanon who traveled November 17...
IFFD Paper 81. Inclusive and responsive protection. The new United Nations resolution on family issues.
The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved the draft resolution titled ‘Follow‑up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond’. The proposal was approved without a vote on November 16th, 2018. By its terms,...
NCFR Annual Conference
The 2018 NCFR Annual Conference has taken place in San Diego (California, USA) from November 7ht to November 10th, with nearly 1,500 participants under the theme ‘Families and Cultural Intersections in a Global Context: Innovations in Research, Practice, and...
LEAP for young professionals in the Philippines
Year 2018 saw a positive explosion of IFFD’s Personal Project program in the Philippines. Rebranded as Life Endeavors and Projects (LEAP), a total of 316 single young professionals attended in 10 locations – 5 in Metro Manila and 5 in the Visayas and Mindanao...
IFFD Paper 80. Towards an improved family stability
The effectiveness of family policies and programmes depends on their regular assessment. That is where qualitative and quantitative research on family structures, needs, challenges and changing intergenerational relations are needed. Such research needs to focus on...
Presentation of the Venice Declaration
A Panel Discussion in Observance of the World Cities Day 2018 has been held in the UN HQ in New York to present the outcome of the project promoted by IFFD on cities, co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Ecuador and Malaysia to the United Nations, UN-DESA...
Training in Alberta, Canada
On October 27th and 28th two training events were held in the Alberta region. The first one was held in Calgary, where 32 people attended the training for moderators, after which a promotional session of the Married Love program was conducted with over 110...
International Conference on Parenting
The Doha International Family Institute, in collaboration with UNICEF-MENARO, has organized an international conference on ‘Parenting, Child Wellbeing, and Development’ (October 23 to 24) to highlight the importance of investing in parents and parenting strategies,...
Civil Society Meeting in Doha
A meeting with some of the most important international representatives of Civil Society has been held in Doha (October 23) organized by the Doha International Family Institute in collaboration with the International Federation for Family Development.
