The Village Decides Program

The Village Decides Program

One of Dalia’s community-controlled grant making programs. The Village Decides (VD) involves communities across Palestine in decision-making processes, and urges them to use grants based on their own priorities.  We facilitate the community to use and invest in local resources, thus achieving positive and long-lasting social change and durable development.

  1.  We start with trainings and workshops with the community to identify their priorities and needs and come up with solutions that benefit all the members of the community.
  2. The community comes up with solutions through initiatives that benefits the entire community.  Then the community decides on which individuals or local community-based organizations (CBOs), or active volunteer groups receive the community-controlled grants through an open voting process.
  3. The leaders (grantees) then implement their initiatives under the supervision of a local monitoring and evaluation committee, selected by the community on the voting day.
  4. The initiatives should benefit the community, use local cash and non-cash resources, and consider the environmental and social context of the community. At least 25% of the resources should come from the community as a community contribution.  
  5. All meetings are inclusive of all members of the community.
  6. Dalia supports and mentors the grantees in implementing their initiatives and linking them to relevant resources.

 

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