Key activities

Identifying Pillars of the programme

• Identified Host Institution in each country which is hosting, coordinating, and facilitating implementation of activities of the programme.
• Identified 5 motivated Core groups of stakeholders from all related sectors (around 200 members)
• Share and Exchange mutual experiences in children literature

Workshops and Capacity development

• Publishers workshop on how to develop publishing and distribution:
  20 Publishers and distributors from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Sweden
• Workshops on children Literature visions and attitudes:
  900 participants developed 5 concept papers on children literature and criteria for evaluating book
  
  

• Regional Workshop:
  Involving19 representatives from the host institutions and core groups sharing experiences of the Nation Core Groups and planning effectively with a regional approach

• Strategic Planning workshop
  Dealing with problem analysis, setting of priorities according to a Logical Framework
  Approach (LFA)

70 projects Log frames were developed

132 stakeholders developed projects and plans in 45 meetings

At the centre: The Book

• 100 Book Exhibition and Evaluation of books
  100 books from 12 different countries Launching the programme in each of the five countries in a visible manner

  Exhibition circulated in 16 Locations and 2500+ children participated in activities.

  1500 evaluations of the 100 books were produced by 99 evaluators

Assessment, Seminars, Conference

• Assessment AND Seminar
  Assessment reflecting the situation of Children literature and reading in each of the five countries

  173 stakeholders participated in 5 seminars discussing the outcomes of the assessment

• Conferences
  National Conferences: 290 stakeholders participated in 4 National  conferences for the discussion of plans developing children literature

  WALTIC Conference in Sweden:5 Arab women writers participated to an International forum for exchange of experience among writers, literary translators and researchers engaged in and committed to the strengthening of democracy and human rights.