Month: May 2015

As part of the Al-Hayat’s work with the Jordanian civil society, the “Women Democratic Empowerment” is a project that aims at providing the tools and competences for women to become active participants in their communities. The project entails many education activities, one of them being a series of workshops addressed at women from rural areas.

The first of these 3-day workshops already took place, last week in Amman. This weekend’s workshop is currently taking place in Jerash. The next and final workshop will be held in Aqaba.

During the first day of the workshops, Al-Hayat staff briefly explains view, mission, goals and activities of the center and of the project itself.

Attended by 30 rural women, the workshops start with the session on Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Women’s Right for Political Participation. The attendees are trained on Human and Women’s Rights’ terms and concepts, international conventions and declarations, and they actively participate in working groups and interactive exercises proposed by the trainer.

During the second day, the rural women are introduced to the topic of Peer Education, by being informed and trained on communication and facilitation skills in order to be able to perform them in the upcoming Kitchen Meeting (the second step of the project) sessions they are going to held in their own community.

The third and last day of the workshop, the training focuses on the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB), including sessions about definition and terminology of Public Budget, gender and GRB, in addition to analysis tools and best practices for gender budgeting. After that, the attendees are divided in working groups to implement the new knowledge and skills learnt during the theoretical session.

Two of CaBuReRa’s TG2 participants permanently involved in the Women Empowerment program are currently working in this project, providing assistance and logistical help to Al-Hayat’s staff.

The Daedalus International Seminar Tackling Youth Unemployment in Palestine took place in Ramallah, Palestine on 26^th and 27^th May 2015. Two days devoted to discuss and analyse issues elated to the Palestinian work market, with a special focus on the situation of the youngest employees.

A great number of people joined the seminar. Also CaBuReRa young participants in Palestine were actively involved in it, as they presented the CaBuReRa platform on 27^th May. Partner of both projects is the Palestinian organization Juhoud for Community&Rural Development.

These two projects shared almost the same goals. Daedalus, like CaBuReRa, is an ENPI CBC MED project aimed to help young people living in the Mediterranean Sea basin find a job, by enhancing their career and business opportunities.

The Daedalus portal allows young people, entrepreneurs, ICT companies, online business, regional and local employment associations to enter a cross-border platform where matching labour market demand and supply and meeting a valuable pool of young people and professionals across the Mediterranean area. The platform is a useful tool as it integrates information sharing, the dissemination of business content and career advising methodologies through a comprehensive and multi-media plan.

Since CaBuReRa platform collects information about career and mobility opportunities as well as news on call and European funding related to the Euro-Mediterranean area, a synergy with Daedalus is warmly encouraged in order to empower the features of both platforms.

From April 27 to 29, ANJE organised the Relay Race, in Tertúlia Algarvia, in Faro, Portugal. The session brought together the group returning from the first part of the mobility and the young unemployed candidates for the second part. It was a moment for exchange of experiences in preparation for the next period of the mobility.

The three days offered many activities for the groups. On the first day of the Relay Race the now returning group evaluated their mobility experience, identifying acquired skills and their practical implementation in their work. For the group selected for the next period of mobility, the first day was dedicated for clarifying logistical questions, as well as their rights and responsibilities related to the CaBuReRa project.

Mentoring was the main tool for the last two days of the sharing session. The first group of participants introduced the mobility to the new group, leaving them with some practical advices for the new experience of training and working abroad.

The new elements of the second stage of the CaBuReRa program left in the beginning of May for Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, where they are having the chance of working in implementation projects with local organisations. The acquisition of professional and personal skills, networking and international workshops in project management are other useful aspects of the mobility.

Under the framework of CaBuReRa project, co-financed by the European Union under the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme,  Planning and Development Agency organized the Relay Race, on 28^th, 29^th, 30^th of April 2015 in Baalbeck, Lebanon. This activity saw the participation of 3 volunteers from the TG1 group – made up of Youth Workers aged 25-35 – as well as of 6 volunteers of TG2 group which includes not yet employed young people interested in international cooperation. During these three days, the TG1 volunteers shared their competences with the TG2 members, introducing them to the aims of the CaBuReRa Project. What is important to point out is that this event gave to TG1 members the opportunity to prove themselves as trainers, thus further foster the competences previously acquired.

What makes this experience really valuable is that TG2 volunteers learned from their peers, listening to them as well as asking for some useful advice.