ANHRE is currently implementing “Yes We Can” project that is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) between the period from March 2013 to June 2014 with five governmental universities in five governorates.

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of students at councils in 5 governmental universities to develop their skills that are essential to enhance the values of democratic citizenship through practicing their right in participating effectively in the development of their universities.

 

The project also aims to engage the largest possible number of youth including males and females in their universities through positive practical projects to enhance the university environment and performance of students’ bodies in addition to create communication mechanisms with decision and policies makers to promote the concept of good citizenship and the role of the effective student in improving their university.

 

Objectives of "Yes We Can":- 

• Provide youth leader in students’ council with the knowledge and skills that are essential to promote the concept of civic education and participation in the public life in their university 

• Develop plans of action oriented projects inside the universities on democratic citizenship that include 17 member of students’ councils to transfer the training and perform these projects in order to enhance the universities and students’ councils performance and engage students in the community work. 

• Involve Jordanian universities’ students in the promotion of civic education values.

 

The project includes 5-day (TOT) workshop on Democratic Citizenship for 2 participants of each university in order to strengthen the capacity of students to develop their skills that are essential to enhance the values of democratic citizenship through practicing their right in participating effectively in the development of their universities. The training workshop also aims to engage the largest possible number of youth including males and females in their universities through positive practical projects to enhance the university environment and performance of students’ bodies in addition to create communication mechanisms with decision and policies makers. 

 

Each 2 students who benefited from the TOT workshop will constitute a team of 15 members of students’ council to transfer the knowledge and information they get. The team will complete plan for the action oriented projects that will engage students in the desired change. ANHRE staff will visit each of the Students Council Action Group to monitor the evaluation of their work coach and accompany the trained participants while they train their peers. During these visits the project team will provide the Students Council Action Group with concrete consulting assistance in the implementation of their projects.

 

ANHRE will hold a public conference where each university will present its most pertinent implemented projects. During this conference, implementers from the students’ councils will expose and analyze the results of their trainings and implementation of projects, discuss their sustainability and the success of ANHRE project. Universities’ officials will participate in this event to prize the success of these projects that will create deep respect for the values of human rights and democratic citizenship among students. And it will activate the youth role in the university life.

 

 

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