Rruga "4 deshmoret", nd. 62
Tirana
Albania
- Human rights
AMAD is a non-government, non-profit civil society organization registered with court order 1303, on 24 October 2018, and validated by the European Commission with PIC 887201577 and OID E10304226. Since its creation AMAD has actively worked on projects and initiatives regarding empowering youngsters and advocating gender equality, breaking down traditional stereotypes to empower women on equal rights, having a special focus in marginalized group inclusion for equal opportunities, raising awareness towards antidiscrimination, promoting human rights, and combating hate speech face-to-face and online. AMAD Center aims on inspiring and sharing values about democracy, human rights, empowering those with less opportunities, advocacy, fighting discrimination and vulnerabilities, and empowering people through capacity-building, especially for youngsters, women, and marginalized groups. In past four years of activities, regarding its projects implementation AMAD has contracted some of the best national and EU experts in the fields of Law, Communication, Youth, Mental Health, etc. Funding resources are project based. The 2021 annual budget was around 10,000 euros. Our pillars a) Human rights and democracy: Advocacy, awareness, information, lobbying for human rights and good practices of democracy b) Youth empowerment and European integration: Capacity-building, involvement, support, cooperation and pathing the way to EU c) Gender issues and women empowerment: Advocacy, capacity –building, aware-ness, lobbying for gender equality d) Green policies and development: Contributing according to European and Global Green Policies in the environment and rural sustainable development Our project "Reacting on Hate Speech, Improving Mental Health" under the framework of Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 program was one of our 2022 projects with sub-granter Albanian Media Institute. The action of our project was part of our Non-Discrimination campaign in countering hate speech by raising awareness on the impact of mental health especially among the marginalized and vulnerable groups. The stakeholders, the Alliance Against Discrimination in Albania, staff of education institutions, teenagers 14-18 years old, media and other partners will be involved as active contributors in the activities. The moment to act is Right Now. Diversity complements us and makes us stronger. This project is funded by EU in the framework of Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 Infodemia (disinformation, mal-information, bad information, deformation of the freedom of speech is mentally and sometimes physically hurting real life people.
AMAD aims in implementing projects that better serve its mission, objectives and community needs for action. AMAD’s focus areas of activities are: - Strengthening of instruments that guarantee human rights - Empowering through capacity building - Encouraging youth inclusion and motivate them to engage in community social activities - Awareness on Mental health improvement - Contributing to social cohesion process of marginalized and/or vulnerable groups - Encouraging local and regional cooperation between CSOs and institution of a better integrated interinstitutional approach - Countering hate speech and combating every form of discrimination, bullying, and stigma - Contribute to sharing common Albanian-EU values as a contribution to European Union integration. - Encouraging sustainable development, etc.
Our first and main campaign was #NukHeshtim (#BreakTheSilence) on the mechanism against violence, especially gender-based violence. Also other core action campaigns have been on Discrimination, Mental health, Youth capacity building (special focus for those with fewer opportunities), etc. Since our focus as civil society organization is on human rights and gender-based projects, the modality of action are concrete projects and youth workers exchanges. - In December 2022 we have applied for the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label and we are expecting to have it this spring. - AMAD is the lead organization (coordinator) in COL-Colors of Humanity project under the framework of Erasmus+Youth, with focus on gender issues, discrimination, human right advocacy activities and youth workers capacity building in such issues. - Actually for 2023 we have started implementing two other national project on youth capacity building: Empowering Future Leaders on youth inclusion in decision-making and training in project drafting under the framework of EU4Municipalities, and the other project PowerZone: Youth Capacity Building in Rrogozhina Municipality on digital and soft skills. Our main international partners are Vienna goes Europe and YES Bulgaria, while national partners are the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, some local municipalities in Albania, national television in Albania (RTSH), etc. About 20 projects, initiatives, campaigns and activities implemented during 2018-2020 (its establishing and "building-up" phase) can be found all in this link: https://amad-center.org/en/projects/
The contribution of AMAD to the Network in my country will be promoting and sharing values of diversity, equity and equality, respect for human dignity, intercultural regional and interregional promotion of dialogue and bridging. In every initiative and project AMAD brings fundamental principals approach in tackling the problems to the root and also empowering active participation of the community and stakeholders (governmental institutions, other CSOs, media, education institutions, etc.) Please find what our partners say about us based on our collaboration https://amad-center.org/en/about-us/who-are-we/
Being part of the network is always a win-win situation in bringing to life better projects, more engagement, better coordinated actions , and shared experience and values. The same reason stands especially on AMAD request to join ALF Network. We are in continuous growth and have implemented several local and nation project in the past, and lately implementing international project as lead organization of the consortium. We have a considered network of volunteers and activists which are an added values to our activism. AMAD stands for coordinated action on different level which also responds to the purpose of acting as a network. On the other hand AMAD and ALF Network share common values and have in focus common issues, activity areas, and objectives.