AMMAN — The
West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute and
the European delegation in Jordan collaborated on a two-year training and grant
project to help Jordanian civil society organizations use their platforms to
address environmental issues, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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The project’s goal
is to improve the technical, administrative, and financial capabilities of
community-based organizations (CBOs) for long-term outcomes in both the
southern and northern parts of the Kingdom.
In “Training for
Change: Empowering Civil Society to Advocate Policies,” coaching took place
over eight months, and then the CBOs were trained and mentored for 10 months as
they carried out environmental projects intended to address urgent local
issues.
Along with two
other project partners, the Intermediaries Change Center for Sustainable
Development in Ajloun and Al-Khansa for Social Development in Tafileh, the WANA
Institute has been overseeing the training and grants project’s implementation
in various communities throughout Jordan since February 2020.
The training helped
the CBOs identify, design, and submit grant applications to address urgent
environmental problems in their local communities.
Topics covered in
the training included environmental agreements, local environmental challenges,
research, analysis, and policy advocacy.
An online map
“Tashbeek” was developed and launched, listing a network of
Jordanian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
The overall aim of
this platform is to bring together a network of Jordan’s CSOs, making sure all
are visually represented on the national CSO landscape. The tool provides a
Geographic Information Systems-based map, color-coding CSOs, and provides a
brief account of CSOs’ areas of activity, and a database for Call for Proposals
translated to Arabic.
Professor Mashhoor
Al-Refai President of Princess Sumaya University for Technology, conveyed HRH’s
remarks today at the closing ceremony.
“The replication of
such a project to include other community-based organizations, will culminate
in harnessing these efforts to improve the people’s lives in Jordan, because
our people are the first and most important wealth in this country,” he said.
“Hence, it is
necessary to provide a mechanism for cooperation among these organizations to
unify efforts, exchange experiences and disseminate them. We at the
Royal Scientific Society aspire for active participation with scientific research
institutions with the support of the EU,
to move our country to a knowledge-based economy,” he added.
Maria
Hadjitheodosiou, Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Jordan, reiterated
the crucial role the CSOs and CBOs will have as development partners in
improving governance and local development, fostering accountability and
transparency, and reinforcing inclusive policy-making.
“Training for
Change: Empowering Civil Society to Advocate Policies Project is equally unique
as it addresses not only the involvement of CBOs in advocating polices but also
highlighting their role in the environmental challenges including water
scarcity, climate change, solid waste management and agriculture, and paving
the way for more innovative sustainable solutions in these thematic areas,” the
envoy said.
Project Manager
Majd Al-Naber emphasized the importance of including the CBOs in the
sustainable development agenda to ensure enhancing their resilience towards
environmental challenges, to be able to turn these challenges into
opportunities.
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