Layal Yacoub Email & Phone Number

Canada

NCLW and UNFPA Project: Enhancing National Women Machinery Capacities for Advancing Gender Equality

Project: Strengthening knowledge, evidence use, and leadership in the Global South on forced displacement: Focus on the Middle East

Beirut District, Lebanon

International contracts: their draft, translation and merge;INGO and NGO Counselling: day to day issues

Working for the KSA office

Beirut, Lebanon

ICLA: Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance Program Emergency Response established to assist those affected by the 04.08.2020 Beirut Blast First experience for NRC Lebanon in an emergency context – operated in a multi-sectoral approachRecruited 5 staff, 3 consultants and volunteers, supervised 9 team members and coordinated with 3 consultants Managed ICLA data and co-established the monitoring and evaluation tools and sampling methodsEstablished the internal channels of communication with the other focal points, Provided legal services to the beneficiaries of the other core competencies, Supported in Housing Land and Property rights, loss of documentation, civil documentation and legal stay, collaborative dispute resolutionEstablished budget revision, forecast, contributed to donor reports, contributed to grant closing meetings

Tal Abbas

ICLA: Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance programCoordinated with UN agencies and NGOs, participated in Legal Partners’ and Protection Working Group meetings Produced Monthly reports and Analyses, conducted monthly legal meetings Helped design a programmatic transition: modifying work modalities and distribution of tasks for staff and consultants Supervised 2 legal field officers and coordinated with 6 consultants, Designed and implemented assessments, engagement strategies and new responsesContributed to Donor Reports

Zgharta District, Lebanon

Enhancing Community and access to Justice in Lebanon Host Communities Project, with the Municipality of Zgharta-Ehden. Worked with the International Consultant to produce an analysis related to the Municipal Police Handled the analysis related to the refugees’ context and drafted a related report complementing the technical side provided by the International Consultant Met and facilitated meetings with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Municipality members, Municipal Police, and local NGOsSpontaneously ensured translation when translators were not present

Individuals, Municipalities, Ngos

Sessions on: - Labor and Social security laws: The essentials we should all keep in mind, as individuals and especially as women.- All aspects of the interview process: the CV, cover letter in three optional languages, the appropriate dress code, and the main points and ideal behavior we should all keep in mind during job interviews. Material given via: Power Points, short switching role-plays, (as the potential employer/ Job seeker), and visual support tools to facilitate memorization and in depth understanding of the essentials.

Editor of the Lebanese Review of Arab and International Arbitration.Arbitration, Private international law, International trade law, Public order, Enforcement, Capital increase, Transfer and porterage of shares, Stock split, Preferred shares, Establishment and liquidation of companies, Sole agency, Emirati law, Inheritance, Devolution of an estate, Divorce, Rent law, Labor law, Execution, Right to erasure and blocking of data, Human rights, Abolishing death sentence, Legal researches and opinions, Feasibility studies, Contract drafting, Translations.

Translated, summarized and copy-edited Lebanese Court rulings rendered between 2014 and 2016, related to private and public issues including but not limited to: Military tribunal proceedings, criminal law, public law, and contracts law

Russian Policy Studies

Master'S Degree, Global Transformation And Challenges

We Lead Scholar

WE lead: fellowship for Women Empowerment in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Afghanistan. ▪ Designed a Personal Leadership Project.

Master'S Degree, Litigation, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Thesis topic: The integration of a Probate Court Document in the Lebanese Judicial system Lebanese qualification of the probate court.

Bachelor'S Degree, Law