Dalia News

Salfeet\ Al-Zawia village, Aug 7th , 2010 Meeting for Monitoring and evaluating the “Village Decides” Program,  by CBO’s and Evaluation Committee, through ABC Consulting Company...
 

 
Capacity building program for civil society organizations, Al- ZAwia Village , in coordination with Cordaid
Salfeet, Al-Zawia. Under the “Village Decides” Program, a capacity building training on financial and narrative reporting requirements and skills took place. The training targeted four CSOs’ board members in addition to the members of the   “Monitoring and Evaluation Committee” which consists of individuals and professionals from the village.

Saint Joseph School for Girls is active in a project called INJAZ (Achievement). For this project, they start a profitable company, and the profits are then donated to community institutions in order to support the Palestinian community. The company started by the Mar Yousef girls via INJAZ is called Grow Green, and they chose to carry out their donations through Dalia Association.
 

The Village Decides Workshop on the role of the local community in the monitoring and evaluation process. The community led “ Monitoring and Evaluation Committee” attended the workshop, in addition to the community-based organizations (CBOs) of Zawiya village, members of the local community, and women leaders from Nablus villages, the training contribution of the ABC.

Dalia Association recently implemented an innovative community-led resource distribution model called “The Village Decides” that we hope will develop into a permanent grantmaking program. We piloted the methodology in Saffa, an agricultural village 18 kilometers west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Saffa, about 9,700 dunums is size, is home to about 4,500 people. Over the course of several visits, we met with village officials and local groups to gather information about the community’s priorities, capabilities, and aspirations.