Starting on 1 February 2022 and continuing throughout the year, Un Ponte Per through its project 'Hiwar: Dialogue for a new social contract' is launching a new capacity building intervention on dialogue dedicated to local civil society organisations. In 9 Iraqi governorates - Duhok, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Nineveh, Anbar, Salah Al-Din, Thi-Qar, Missan and Basra - meetings, courses and training on methodologies suitable for project design and implementation will be organised.
The aim is that by the end of the year 35 local civil society organisations will have the means, skills and good practices to build, manage and report on project actions independently, but also develop the capacity to build networks and dialogue among themselves. In particular, training will be geared towards the objectives the organisations wish to set themselves in the social, economic and environmental fields. Training subjects will also include advocacy, network building and financial management to ensure sustainability, autonomy and governance on the part of local organisations for the projects they wish to implement. Among the final objectives of the intervention will also be the creation of a micro-blogging network that will become a space for work and shared exchange between the various organisations on issues of dialogue and the exchange of good practices, so as to make the intervention lasting in the long term.
Supporting local organisations and activistə irachenə - so that they themselves can be protagonists of change - is the child of a decolonial approach to international cooperation that Un Ponte Per has embraced since its inception. An approach that places at the centre of solidarity actions complementarity and subsidiarity with local organisations. A method, this, that animates all Un Ponte Per's project actions. Thanks to 'Hiwar' about 360 members of local organisations will be reached, involving about 700 people (of whom at least 30% women and 20% young people) in dialogue initiatives, as well as 140 representatives of local authorities. There will also be a micro-grant programme at the end of the trainings. The intervention is funded by UNDP and the European Union.
