Community initiatives (take the initiative, take part, be positive)

Within the Marginalised Local Communities Development Project…

The Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution carries out community initiatives by funding small projects, where the initiatives strengthen the mechanisms of community participation and build the local communities' own capacities in identifying their development needs, through initiatives identified, designed and led by members of the local community in the target areas.

The objectives of the community initiatives
The purpose of the initiatives is to give local communities the opportunity to build their capacities and to involve the various groups of men, women, boys, girls, people with disabilities and the elderly by applying to carry out community initiatives and receiving training on how to write and how to implement those initiatives.

The Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution carries out a… 3 Introductory and explanatory workshops on the community initiatives and the mechanism for applying for them, during the period 9-11/2/2020, where the meeting brought together 125 participants from the seven partner municipalities: 30 participants in each of Bureij and Al-Qarara , 27 participants in each of Abasan Al-Jadida and Khuzaa, and 54 participants in each of Rafah, Al-Nasr and Al-Shoka.

The community initiatives were received during the period 16-17/2/2020 and the assessment process began over 3 days, 18, 19 and 20/2/2020, by a specialised committee made up of Ms. Amal Al-Sabaawi and Eng. Ahmed Dardouna of the Municipal Development and Lending Fund, Mr. Abdel Moneim Al-Tahrawi and Eng. Iyad Abu Hjair of the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, external assessors, the project engineers at the partner municipalities and the coordinators of the seven community committees. The participants in the marginalised local communities submitted in the first stage 65 proposals for initiatives, of which there qualified 43 proposals for the second stage, and the number of qualifying initiatives, after merging similar or complementary ideas, reached 26 community initiatives

Training and capacity building for the winning teams was carried out, reaching 106 representatives of the winning initiatives in the first stage in each municipality, on Thursday 27/2/2020 in the Rafah municipality hall, where the training covered the skills of preparing and writing community initiative proposals, the final assessment criteria for the initiatives after the final form is filled in, the assessment timetable and the announcement of the results.

The final initiatives will be received on Sunday 8/3/2020 and the list of winning initiatives will be announced after the assessment process is complete, on the website of the community development and accountability committees, in addition to direct contact with the leaders of the initiatives, and an extended meeting will be held for the winners to explain the implementation timetables and the financial transactions and disbursement in line with the Centre's financial systems.