Programs
and activities |
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Empowerment & solidarity
Grid
of activities 2004-2005 |
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A. Individual Empowerment |
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One regional seminar annually :
- 2004 seminar: religious principles on economic
justice and community-wide advocacy and solidarity
- 2005 seminar: personal commitment and
community involvement at the civil society
level – the
Middle East society as a focus
- 2006 seminar: Christian and Muslim communities
and cooperation for poor and marginalized communities
in the region
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Four local workshops each
deriving from the regional workshop and focusing on
local priorities. These would take place in Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan (to include Palestine and
Iraq initially for political, security and practical
reasons) |
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B. Community organization
and Leadership Training |
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One sub-regional training
workshop for Jordan, Palestine and Iraq
- 2004 training theme: entering new communities – skills
for local leaders in situations of conflict (focus
on women are community organizers, working with
established leadership – municipality,
mayors, tribal leaders)
- 2005 training theme: developing local projects
(focus on income-generation, small-enterprise)
- 2006 training theme: training of local trainers
(ToT)
4 local training workshops that allow for local
priorities to be highlighted through FDCD contacts
at the grassroots level (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and
Jordan) |
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C. Economic Empowerment |
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Key resource
input for the poorest of the poor, and most marginalized communities
in such a way that the impact effects community-wide
transformation. The primary agents of change here are
women and youth, and as such FDCD would support creative,
community-oriented projects in key areas in the region:
- Egypt: a) direct work with garbage collectors
community in Ezbet al-Nakhl, north of Cairo with
the Experimental Center for Recycling and Development
ECRED in their efforts to provide alternative recycling
methods with bio-waste, paper, glass, and plastic
waste; b) work in marginalized communities in upper
(southern Egypt) in the governorate of Sohag on
income-generation projects training and small-business
projects
- Lebanon: support of the work undertaken by the
organization LEISWAD for street children (most
of whom are children without parents and hold Syrian,
Iraqi, Egyptian and Sri Lamkan nationalities, or
do not hold any nationality)
- Syria: direct work with women in north east
Syria in al-Hassake governorate (al-Jazeera area)
when agricultural villages have suffered drought
and are currently searching for alternative methods
of survival through small projects for farming
of alternative crops that use less water and provide
higher productivity-per-acre
- Jordan: support of projects in rural northern
Jordan (Hellat and Abu-Khesheiba villages) for
community organizing and income generation in tribal
areas
- Palestine: support of interfaith activities
of al-Liqa Center in Bethlehem that combines
interfaith dialogue with development activities.
Also, cooperative work with the International
Center of Bethlehem on support of women’s
action as agents of change in society through
small income generation projects for 20 women
whose family income has been severely restricted
by the occupation
- Iraq: support of small-scale development projects
that provide fresh/clean water resources for rural
villages not reached by the Iraqi Provisional Authority,
the Coalition or development organizations working
Iraq
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