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Conference to discuss challenges and plans

The conference will host six sessions on Monday, as well as the wrap up session with concluding remarks.

  • Staff Report
  • Published: 01:27 January 21, 2008
  • Gulf News

Dubai: The conference will host six sessions on Monday, as well as the wrap up session with concluding remarks.

The sessions will deal with challenges facing Arab philanthropy, plans for the future, the legal and policy frameworks for civil society organisations, building strategies for long term change, building partnerships and networks as well as financial sustainability mechanisms.

The speakers at the sessions will include representatives of the Arab Foundations Forum, Young Presidents' Organisation, Heinrich Boll Foundation, the London-based Institute for Philanthropy, and the Al Qattan Foundation.

All sessions will take place at the Monarch Hotel.

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