Community Committees’ Capacity Building Grant

Community Committees’ Capacity Building Grant

Training workshops were implemented in the field of conflict management, planning and negotiation, local authority laws, laws related to community committees, control procedures, establishing volunteer teams, planning initiatives, managing and marketing projects and initiatives, communication, fundraising and disaster management for 50 participants from the community committees. A training manual (50 copies) was prepared to highlight and set-up the community committees’ tasks in neighborhoods, officially approved by the Community Committees Department. Then, it was distributed to neighborhoods as a simplified guide to their work and to transfer such knowledge to the rest of the committees’ members. An awareness radio program was prepared on the role of community committees in the development and stability of society, and two community initiatives were implemented in residential neighborhoods to improve the targeted units; one of which was the electrical transformer room was fenced in Bamahaisoun residential unit and the Engineering residential unit, and the other one was the installation of 40 solar-powered led lights in the martyr Khaled neighborhood and the 40-apartment neighborhood.