LIMS Leaders’ Academy provides a capacity building program for young activists of political parties, enabling them to integrate these sound principles of economics, when assessing a situation or taking a position on a policy issue. At the end of the program, staff and activists of political parties will able to:
Acquire a framework to accurately identify and interpret the economic challenges facing Lebanon.
Come up with well thought out solutions to any economic problem they wish to address.
Draft market-oriented policy proposition.
Present the proposition in front of an audience and defend it.
In order to complete the LLA, participants should take the following four levels, in order to gather the required 24 credits.
LLA 101 Connect to Prosperity (Webinar) – 6 credits
LLA 201 Economic Foundations of a Free & Prosperous Country (Workshop) – 6 credits
LLA 301 Shaping Public Policy (Workshop) – 6 credits
LLA 401 Policy Fair (Event) – 6 credits
LLA 101 Connect to Prosperity
LLA101 Connect to Prosperity is designed for high-achieving staff and activists of political parties, who are seeking a unique structured and advanced knowledge, with a strong emphasis on practical solutions for economic challenges.
By the end of LLA101, participants will acquire a deep understanding of:
How the market economy operates
Central Planning and Price Setting
Free Labor Market
Labor Market Policies
Free Trade
Protectionist Trade Policies
Tax Policy
The Solution for the Debt Problem
Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Format
The program uses the Soukhor platform, the first Arabic online platform, gathering more than 60 short free market videos produced by top international policy experts on the topic.
Participants connect to www.soukhor.com and sign up, the process will take them less than 2 minutes.
Participants can watch the videos on soukhor and take short quizzes in Arabic.
The platform includes nine categories, each category has 30-40 minutes of videos
Passing all the quizzes in a category, allows the participant to obtain 3 credits.
After completing 18 credits (six categories out of nine), participants will receive a certificate from LIMS by email.
The participants who complete LLA101 first will qualify for LLA201.
LLA101 is also opened to participants who are not enrolled in the academy, but they will need to gather 21 credits (complete and watch seven categories out of nine).
LIMS created a dedicated platform called Soukhor (soukhor means free market in Arabic).
LLA 201 Economic Foundations for a Free and Prosperous Lebanon
LLA 201 Economic Foundations of a Free and Prosperous Lebanon is a two-day workshop hosting 10-15 staff members and activists of a political party. Several workshops are held simultaneously and members of different parties can interact over the breaks.
LLA 301 Shaping Public Policy is a two-day workshop followed by a two-months tutoring process. The workshop allows participants to draft a market-oriented policy paper that would serve their political party. Each party might have its own priority and LIMS is very flexible on the topic. After the workshop, a tutor will be assigned to each staff or activist to walk them through the process of drafting the paper.
The Policy Fair is designed to help participants pitch their policy proposition in just one minute, to a crowd of experts and professionals. The crowd suggests insights, feedback, and experience to help participants overcome the challenges. A group of trained facilitators makes sure that each political party aggregates the dispersed information, into a structured body of knowledge.
By the end of LLA 401, participants will be able to:
Advocate for their policy proposition.
Discuss the topic with experts, in an informal manner.
Expand their own professional network.
Crowdsource the content of their paper, by having others contribute with ideas and solutions.
Format
Each political party has a booth.
Three participants from each party will be at the booth.
One representative of each party takes the stage, presents their policy proposition, and encourages attendees to visit their party’s booth – all in just one minute.
Around 50 attendees will then visit the stands and share their ideas with the staff of political parties, write their comments, and move on to the next stand.
Duration: Two hours.
2017 Edition
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