ANHRE conducted advocacy project on Youth to combat community violence in Jordan in cooperation with Change Academy for Democratic Studies and Development funded by USAID, AED Jordan Civil Society Program. 

 

ANHRE trained 3 partners from Salt on advocacy and new tactics methodology that enabled them to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate the advocacy campaigns in their area successfully. 

 

The goal of the initiative: To activate the role of youth to combat community violence and create policies and measures for addressing and solving it 

The objectives of this initiative are to:

• To develop a specific policy to alleviate community violence through and to youth focusing on citizenship concept.
• To build the capacity of the in-kind grantees in Salt to use effectively the advocacy tools and strategies into their work to address the situation of community violence and to activate the role of youth as a tool for change.
• To mobilize the youth to take active role into addressing and solving the community violence.

The results of this campaign were: 
1) For the first time, it was youth to youth campaign as the youth actively engaged in the process, planning of the viable advocacy strategy (identifying the problem, vision, stakeholders and decision makers), implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Through out the project 39 youth trained in different activities. The project succeeded into engaging 2227 people, 1714 are youth

2) The students came up with 4 projects that would activate the role of youth to reduce violence at the university through the available councils in their university by proposing voluntarily projects that would engage the university students in the solution to reduce violence in the university and improve the current condition. This was a result of the direct work with 23 university students of the clubs and scientific associations to mobilize them to demand the students’ unions (3 meetings, open day, theatre drama, 2 day training on “citizenship concept among youth”. The action plans are now followed up by us.

3) "The attitude of the students becomes different". Since this initiative, no violent actions happened among students in the university which exclusively focused on the youth as partners and engaged them in the process, activities and discussion. The initiative which focused on the role of the students and their rights gave the students in the university a positive push to be productive and mature.

4) The key decision makers, community leaders and other CBOs put the demand of the campaign on their agenda and programs taking into consideration the youth’s rights of participation and freedom of expression and the necessity to have an active democratic body which represent them and defend their rights.

 

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