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Munathara’s projects create inclusive, civic-minded platforms for youth, women, and marginalized communities to shape public discourse across the Arabic-speaking world. Through training programs, town halls, debate competitions, and grassroots media initiatives, these projects foster critical thinking, democratic engagement, and public interest journalism. Designed to empower local voices and amplify community-driven solutions, Munathara’s projects equip participants with tools to hold power to account, counter misinformation, and challenge dominant narratives—while helping build an informed, participatory, and equitable public sphere.
Civic Horizons is an EU-funded consortium of seven member organizations, including Munathara, operating across Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. Its mission is to strengthen civic space by supporting civil society actors through innovative, rights-based, and intersectional approaches. The consortium mobilizes resources, generates actionable knowledge, and connects stakeholders to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms throughout the region.
Time to Talk is the flagship podcast of the Community Management for Social Change (CMSC) project, led by the Arab Institute for Human Rights, Al Qatiba, and the Munathara Initiative from 2022 to 2023. The initiative trained 40 young Tunisians to produce ten original podcast episodes addressing key public issues such as press freedom, migration, education, and women’s rights. Broadcast online and on regional radio, it helped spark dialogue on important community concerns and empowered a new generation of citizen journalists.
Maydan Townhall, a live debate produced in 2022 by the Munathara Initiative and Democracy Reporting International (DRI), explored the theme “The Right to Mobility and Migration: Between Reality and Legislation.” Hosted by Elias Al Gharbi, it featured ten youth participants and five guest experts discussing Tunisia’s legal and constitutional mobility rights, the challenges of irregular migration, and the socioeconomic and policy drivers behind it. Blending personal stories, expert perspectives, and audience interaction, the event examined how mobility intersects with economic marginalization and governance, and proposed steps to safeguard freedom of movement within and beyond Tunisia.
Maydan Munathara is an innovative public-deliberation project that takes Munathara’s solution-focused debate model out of studios and into the streets, hosting live podcasts about human rights and social justice in cultural venues across Tunisia.
