El Taller is an international NGO based in Tunis, Tunisia with over 500 partners organizations in the world. El Taller seeks to be a space for reflection, exchange and networking for a wide spectrum of civil society and social movements.
In pursuit of our ideals and vision, we have and continue to develop regional programs in Africa, Asia, Arab world, Mediterranean region, Latin and Central America by facilitating Courts of Women, international training courses (e.g. ngo leadership courses and the Open University), roundtables, café conversations, seminars and conferences on a regular basis. In addition we cooperate with our partners in the regions through solidarity in undertaking other initiatives aimed at strengthening ngos in civil society.
El Taller works with civil society organisations worldwide, especially ngos and social movements, whose work challenges the underlying structural causes of the increasing dispossession of peoples, the destruction of cultures and the 
deepening of poverty and under development and seeks non-violent means in the search for alternatives to conventional development approaches. These alternatives are coming from the voices on the periphery and are being communicated across cultures. This has become particularly crucial in the face of the moral and political vacuum that has emerged from the current confusion around the new world order, the globalisation of the market economy and the push towards global uniformity and the homogenization of cultures and civilizations.
El Taller’s vision compels us to find new relevant spaces and alternative visions through the diverse expressions of civil society. In our quest for new terrain we are rooting ourselves in different regions in a process of regionalisation of El Taller’s structures and are discovering new ways to relate to civil society and communities on the periphery. This new rootedness is enabling us to challenge the dominant discourse of development, human rights, gender, environment from regional and local perspective.
In our search for alternatives to the dominant Worldview, El Taller seeks out regional voices and encourages conversations across cultures. In continuity with our vision we seek to work with diverse movements for human rights, peace, environment, women and indigenous peoples.
Our presence in the regions reinforces El Taller’s capacity for constructive reflection and action on the important issues of our times and enables us to facilitate south-south and north-south dialogue, to demonstrate our solidarity with social movements and to pursue actions rooted in the realities of the communities in each region.