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FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT
WE HAVE OUR ADVOCACY TOOLS 1st April to 30th September 2014
Description
Name of beneficiary of grant contract: JUZOOR
Contact person:
Ms Majd Hardan,
Public and International Relations Officer
Name of partners in the Action: (3 official CBOs partners)
1. African-Jerusalem Delegation Society
2. Spafford Center for Children
3. Burj Al-Luqluq Social center Society
Title of the Action: WE HAVE OUR ADVOCACY TOOLS
Start date and end date of the Action: 1/April to 30/September – 2014
Target groups: children and youth between 12 to 17 years old in Jerusalem
Blog: http://wehaveouradvocacytools.blogspot.com/
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Executive Summary of the Action
The project was designed by Juzoor for Health and Social Development as a
mean to promote learning, participation, and self-advocacy of school children in
East Jerusalem. Juzoor's extensive experience in child and youth development,
combined with stakeholder consultation, illustrate that school children in East
Jerusalem, especially children at risk, need opportunities to develop their critical
thinking, to express their thoughts to the wider community, and to advocate for
their rights.
The overall aim of the project is to promote and protect child rights in East
Jerusalem.
Specific Objective is to educate children, aged 12-17 on media and
communication tools and mobilize them to advocate for their rights.
Activities and Results
In terms of impact indicators, the project contributed towards the following:
Increased community awareness on child rights issues.
Improved ability of children to advocate for their rights.
The project was carried out in three phases:
In the first phase; (Months April - May), partnerships, preparation and launching
calls.
In the second phase; (Months June - July), organize a series of training and
workshops to provide participants with knowledge and skills related to the project
subjects.
In the third phase; (Months August – September), continue trainings and
workshops, dissemination of results and outputs.
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The activities led to concrete results by the end of the project:
1. 60 children were trained on Advocacy perception, steps of the advocacy
cycle, based on child rights approach, and design
advocacy campaigns.
2. All participants of the project experienced the positive, critical, and
inclusive thinking through group and collective activities on issues affecting
them and their communities.
3. All participants of the project were trained on using Poster as a tool to
send advocacy message in creative and critical ways.
4. 40 Advocacy posters were produced by children through creative writing
workshops, using new method of text writing and design posters.
5. 20 children were trained on using “Animate It” as a tool to produce
animated films for advocating for their rights and share their concerns.
6. 3 animated films were created by children addressing several issues,
focusing on situation of children in Gaza during the War.
7. 24 children were trained on using Digital Photography as a tool to produce
photos for raising awareness and advocate for social and child rights in
Jerusalem.
8. 25 digital photos were produced by children based on group division and
themes
9. Public advocacy event for child rights in Jerusalem was organized showed:
- 40 advocacy posters
- 15 digital photos
- educational and documentary film
- distributed promotional, educational, and advocacy materials: stickers,
posters, school calendar, and pens with name of the project.
10. Blog “We Have Our Advocacy Tools” of the project was launched to be as
online exhibition of all produced tools by children, and news of the
activities.
11. Educational and documentary movie “Image & Sound”
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Activity 1:
The orientation meetings with partners were conducted in first month of the
project and signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with each partner.
The 3 main partners are:
1. African-Jerusalem Delegation Society
2. Spafford Center for Children
3. Burj Al-Luqluq Social center Society
The 3 partners locate in the Old City of Jerusalem and are active in the field in
working with youth and children.
The meetings aimed to involve partners in the project, its objectives, and more in
details of the activities. Juzoor asked each partner to include number of its
children groups in the project activities, and help in spreading the calls for
activities among their targeted communities and groups. The activities of the
project were discussed with partners and they suggested some improvements
and agreed on the methods of implementation. Juzoor expressed its interest to
support the partner as CBOs through the project and co-implementing the
activities. The Memorandums of Understanding were signed at the end of each
meeting as partners
Activity 2:
Launching calls for trainings and workshops, and identifying beneficiaries
Juzoor launched a call for participants for a Summer Training Camp for one week
for children between 12 to 17 years old from Jerusalem and its hinterlands. The
call was spread among partners, their social media pages, Facebook group for the
Jerusalem Youth Parliament for Students, and at number of schools.
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Activity 3:
Intensive training camp titled “Image & Sound”, included: child rights based
approach, collective group writing workshop, drama, flash-mob, and design
advocacy campaigns. The camp lasted for 6 days (from 22 to 27 June) at
Spafford Centre for Children in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The title of the training camp was suggested by the partner African-Jerusalem
Society while preparing for it. “Image and Sound” as title reflects the core idea
of the project which is training children on using various advocacy tools, because
we either see the tool, hear it, or both together. Then and because children liked
it; it became the short title of the project.
This training camp came as merging activity for main 3 main activities in the
workplan: Advocacy training, Creative Workshops, and design campaigns.
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This merging was due to the delay in signing the agreement between Juzoor and
World Vision; which made the team able to start implementing in June. Thus, and
because most of June is dedicated
for final examination at schools; the
team in consultation with World
Vision decided to do the activities
outside schools with community
centres and to merge the activities in
order to save time and offer
intensive training for the children.
Total of 60 children participated in
the training camp. Majority of the
participants are females from
different schools and areas in Jerusalem.
The team of the camp; 5 members: two main trainers, two volunteers youth
workers, and one supervisor. The team met twice in June for preparation for the
camp, its content, methodology, approaches, and for logistics.
The daily activities in the training camp were as the following:
1st day of the camp was opening, introduction about the project, its objectives,
and program of the camp, training sessions on child rights, advocacy, and
campaigning.
2nd + 3rd + 4th days was dividing the participants to two groups, and organize
parallel workshops for creative thinking, drama, Flashmobs, and photography.
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5th day was group work, sharing what each group learned and produced during
the previous days of the camp, discussion, and final editing for advocacy posters,
then voting.
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6th day was a study trip to Old City of Jaffa.
The following is the program of the camp:
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Activity 4:
The Animation training was
organized from 20 to 24 July during
Ramadan month at Burj Al-Luqluq
Social Center Society. Total of 20
children participated in the training; 12
females and 8 males between 12 to 17
years old.
The training aimed to provide the children with creative skills and participatory
space to produce animated films that reflect their concerns and opinions toward
many topics and develop advocacy messages. The produced films were dealing
with the topics: equality, right to education, discrimination, peer advocacy
influence, and adolescence stories.
The 3 produced animated films were finalized and posted on the YouTube
channel AnimateIt5 and shared widely. Those films will be screened in film
screening events with partners and share on social media tools.
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The following are captures from the animated films with direct links:
Prejudice in Media- Link of the film
The Palestinian Routine
Link of the film
Run ZAKARIA – Link of the film
Children on Gaza's Beach
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Activity 5:
The digital photography training was organized from during all August and
first week of September at the Spafford Center for Children. Two to three
sessions a week were conducted by two professional journalists and media
trainers. Total of 20 children participated in this training.
The training was based on two parts:
preparation and theoretical sessions
about the importance of using digital
photography in advocacy actions and
campaigns, required skills and
knowledge to use digital photography
bring good quality, how to make
advocacy story using photos. The second
part is the practice in field, as groups of
participants were going several times
into field to visit different public places
and create their advocacy stories,
messages using photos.
The 25 produced photos focus on
different target groups in the society
such children, youth, women, and elderly people, and highlight several topics
such; education, child labor, restriction on mobility, freedom of religion, political
situation, social life, poverty, economy, and solidarity. They are available at the
blog. Link of the photos
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Activity 6:
A total of 4 creative text-writing posters were organized in cooperation with
informal youth groups and new partners that work with children in Jerusalem.
The workshops were organized as the following:
- Two workshops were organized at Spafford Centre for Candle of Jerusalem
group and members of the Jerusalem youth parliament for Students.
- One workshop was organized at Youth for Jerusalem organization in Sheikh
Jarrah for children in summer camp
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- One workshop was organized at Jabal Al Mukaber library for Shabab Al-
Balad group.
Total of 108 children participated in those workshops between 10 to 18 years old.
The used methodology in those workshops was presented by Loesje Palestine
which is an informal youth group that promotes for freedom of expression and
human rights. It encourages critical and positive thinking of the social, political,
and economic realities, and using sarcasm.
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Activity 7:
The “Image & Sound” Posters Exhibition was organized on 15 September at
the African-Jerusalem Society in the Old city of Jerusalem. This exhibition was a
public advocacy event that showed most of produced tools, results, and
productions by children participated in the project during the summer.
The exhibition included:
- Opening with short speeches by representative of Juzoor, World Vision,
and hosting partner
- Screening educational and documentary movie about the advocacy project
- Exhibit 40 advocacy and creative posters, and small sticker-posters
- Exhibit 15 digital photos
- Distribute promotional and advocacy messages
In the first day, more than 200 visitors came to the exhibition such as schools
students, parents, children, youth, women, men, political and social leaders,
representative of PA, representatives of NGOs and CBOs, journalists, and
activists.
The exhibition will be transferred to two schools during the end of the year.
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Activity 8: Closing Study Visit
The team organized a motivating study visit to Birzeit for the most committed
participants in the project. The visit included tour in the old city of Birzeit, visiting
home of a Palestinian family that lost their son as abuse of his rights by
occupation, and ended at public park near Birzeit.
Activities that have not taken place
- Some activities were merged in order to keep on the action plan track
- Some activities were planned to be implemented at schools, but
implementation started during the schools examination, hence the team
decided to work in cooperation with CBOs as partners to implement the
activities during the summer.
- Digital photography training was supposed to be included in the training
camp, due to not find the suitable media trainers on time, it was shifted to
be done in August.
- Due to the recent political situation in Jerusalem and War on Gaza, the
team stopped any activities most of July for the safety of the children.
Hence, some activities were shifted to be done in September.
- Public advocacy event was supposed to be done in Jerusalem, but due to
the political situation, it was adopted with the exhibition event.
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Materials produced during the Action
- Logo of the project
- Stickers: has name and logos of partners and organizations
- Pens: written name of the project in Arabic and English
- Week School calendar: has advocacy messages
- T-shirts+ caps: with slogan of the project and logos
- Rollups: for visibility, and promotion
- Stickers- posters: small size posters as stickers for distribution
- Animated films: videos
- 40 foam posters: for exhibition
- 25 foam photos: for exhibition
- Educational and documentary movie: for promotion and educational use
Links of the action: (click on the title)
*Project’s page at Juzoor’s website
* Photos of the activities
*Educational and Documentary Movie “Image & Sound”
*Short Version of the movie: What is Advocacy? Why Advocacy?
Name of the contact person for the Action: SHADI ZATARA
Location: RAMALLAH
Date report sent: 15 October 2014
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Annex of materials
*Rollups
*Stickers
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*School calendar
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*Invitation to the Posters Exhibition
*promotional pens
