Sufyan Str, Al-Kouny Building, 5th floor
Nablus
Palestinian Territories
- Democracy and community development
“MADARAT Center for Community Development”: Is a Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization that aims to promote development in civic, social, economic, educational and legal fields. It involves 11 employees and is also a part of a coalition of institutions called "RASED Palestine".
Madarat has two main sources of funding, the first one is projects conducted with donor organizations such as CEC, Oxfam and EU through the Agricultural Development Association, European Endowment for Democracy, IREX and Welfare association through ESNAD as well as private sectors. The other source of funding is a cooperative project that provided job opportunities for women in order to reach self-employment.
The main topics that Madarat work on are Democracy, capacity building, citizenship, accountability, entrepreneurship, economic development, community participation & development, and economic empowerment.
MADARAT Vision:
A free Palestinian society in which social justice, equal opportunities, livelihoods with dignity, democracy & prosperity are fulfilled.
Madarat implements programs and creates partnerships for community participation programs, within the framework of promoting civic values, volunteerism, economic & social empowerment, accountability, principles of democracy, human rights, rule of law and citizenship.
MADARAT Mission:
MADARAT is a non-governmental non-profit civil society organization that specializes in the field of sustainable development civic programs; targeting particularly women and youth, according to the most urgent priorities and needs, in addition to a modern consistent value system that adherence to the standards of governance, principles of equality, and transparency.
MADARAT Values:
Transparency and governance, Independence, professionalism and Volunteerism.
MADARAT Objectives:
- Implementing programs and creating partnerships for community participation programs, within the framework of promoting civic values, volunteerism, accountability, principles of democracy, human rights, rule of law and citizenship.
- Develop Women's skills and abilities, support them economically, culturally, socially and professionally, raise their awareness and provide all supporting programs for them.
- Promote the concepts and practices of entrepreneurship and economic development, especially among youth and women.
Main Activities:
Develop Youth and Women's skills and abilities, support them economically, culturally, socially and professionally, raise their awareness and provide all supporting programs for them.
Promote the concepts and practices of entrepreneurship and economic development, especially among women and youth, in marginalized and poor areas, and to support community and government efforts.
Implement programs and partnerships for community participation programs, in the context of enhancing civil values, volunteerism, accountability, the principles of democracy, human rights, the rule of law and citizenship.
Provide event management services, project management and evaluation, training services, human resource development and legal and administrative consulting.
MADARAT Center has executed many programs and activities that are meeting with its establishment objectives and mission, and the success in conducting these programs gave MADARAT and its professional team a practical experience in good-governance polices and raised their capacity to implement future projects successfully.
Citizen Participation
Madarat aims at enhancing women and youth civic participation and responsibility in the Palestinian society, we provide women and youth with training opportunities and encourage them to give back to the society. We also encourage and work on women and youth in developing their communities by giving them the chance to lead and have a strong voice in community initiatives. Moreover, we organize social events that activate the role of women and youth in democratic political participation, as well as enable women and youth and prepare them to represent Palestine internationally.
We focus on enhancing international cooperation and knowledge-sharing among organizations, thus, Madarat has formed a coalition that is executing its activities through (18) cooperative youth and women organizations around all of Palestinian West Bank Cities. This coalition is primarily aiming at the following objectives:
- Training and building the capacity of women and youth about the citizenship rights and duties, as well as the electoral process and its importance, and how to integrate within the civic public life activities.
- Motivating the Palestinian youth and women to be engaged within the electoral process through encouraging them to participate in the voting day within intensive awareness campaigns.
- Increasing the cooperation, networking and partnerships opportunities between the Palestinian youth and women civil society organizations.
This happened through a series of activities that were implemented as follows:
- At first an intensive motivational awareness campaign has been published over social media and other media outlets to set a base for a positive behavioral change and raise the awareness on the importance of the electoral participation.
- A Training and capacity building camp has been held to improved capacity and skills of more than 200 focal activists within 20 civil society organizations around all West Bank cities on the electoral process, transparency, community participation and accountability.
- Monitoring the elections campaigns of each local council and municipality running for elections and reviewing their electoral programs and promises.
- Spreading the trained youths and women to observe the local councils’ elections.
- Conducting several community dialogue and social accountability sessions on the commitment of the local councils and municipalities to the electoral promises mentioned in their electoral programs.
We encourage females and youths to be part of the change and take action, through raising their awareness and building capacity among them, in order to strengthen the participation of women and youth in decision-making processes.