Minutes of the General Assembly
Minutes of the General Assembly
LaunchingEvent of the PIA- 26th and 27th, November, 2008
With the Support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Presentation of the program
Day 1:the 26th of November 2008
8.30AM to 9.30AM: Welcome
▪ Welcoming drink and installation of the associations’ exhibitions;
▪ Registration in the workshops.
9.30AM to 10.00AM: Opening of the launching event
▪ Presentation of the French NGO’s Platform for Palestine
▪ Objectives of the launching event
▪ Presentation of the participants
▪ Presentation of the working groups
10.15AM to 12.30AM: 4 working groups about the four themes of the PIA
▪ Role of game and play for the development of children; playing, educative and sports activities
▪ Playing, educative and sport activities
▪ Early childhood
▪ School tutoring
1.30PM to 3.00PM: Presentation of the results of the working groups
3.00PM to 5.30PM: Working groups on the cross-cutting and common activities
From 7.00PM: Reception
▪ Welcoming of the French Consulate;
▪ Reading of the speech of Issa Sabbah from the Canaan Institute of Gaza;
▪ Introduction of the French NGO’s Platform for Palestine;
▪ Introduction of the inter-Associative program for Childhood.
Day 2:the 27th of November 2008
8.30AM to 9.30AM: Welcome
o Installation of the new associations’ exhibitions
o Welcoming drink
9.30AM to 10.30AM: Short Presentation of the PIA and the participants
10.30AM to 12.00AM: Presentation of the support Fund and discussion
12.00AM to 12.30AM: Cross-cutting and common activities
1.30AM to 2PM: Final evaluation and conclusion
2PM to 3PM: Working time
On ideas of activities which could be supported
Playing activities…Early childhood…School tutoring…
Details of the program
Day 1: the 26th of November 2008
1- Presentation of the French NGOs’ Platform for Palestine
Florence GIARD, the executive secretary of the French NGOs’Platform for Palestine introduces:
- The history of the Platform since its creation in 1993;
- Its main fundamental objectives on supporting and strengthening the partnership with the Palestinian NGOs; on informing about the situation in Palestine, raising awareness and dialogue.
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The 3 principal missions and/or activities of the platform today:
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- Spreading information about Palestine,
- Implementing advocacy campaigns,
- Coordinating several programs.
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- Its actual partners
2- Presentation of the objectives of the Launching Event
Marion JEUNE, the general coordinator of the French and Palestinian Program for Childhood introduces the objectives and the Program of
the Launching Event.
3- Presentation of the participants
Each participant takes time to introduce himself, the main activities of his association and his objectives of his participation to the Launching Event.
3 working groups on the themes of action of the PIA
Theme 1: Early Childhood
Evaluation of the different needs of this specific field:
- General training of people acting in the field of the early childhood (health and education);
- Training courses concerning the ‘first emergency aid’;
- Improvement of the coherence between the several programs implemented;
- Development of specialized infrastructures;
- Better involvement of the capable ministries;
- Make public authorities and parents more sensitive to the importance of the education for early childhood.
Ideas of activities to implement in order to satisfy the needs:
1- Training
- Specific didactic and pedagogic including the new informal methods of education (tales, circus…);
- Psychological and mental health assistance;
- Implementation of only one program of training in order to be coherent and sustainable;
- Teacher trainings implemented by the capable ministries.
2- Make parents and children closer and interactive
- Through the implementation of several activities such as notation, games, reading;
- Specific training of parents to improve their education skills;
- Creation of a network between the different actors.
3- Development of infrastructures and availability of specific material
- Infrastructures such as kindergartens, public spaces, libraries and toy libraries;
- Materials such as games and specialized books.
List of the Participants
FRENCH CONSULATE: Mélanie CAMBREZY
EJE – Enfants Jeux et Education : Jacques NENO
GREF – Groupement de retraités Educateurs sans Frontières :
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PFP – Plateforme des ONG Françaises pour la Palestine : Jamil KADI
Theme 2: Playing educative and sport activities
Definition for play: playing is not a recreational activity only, as much as it serves different purposes such as social, therapeutic, enhancing child development and cognitive emotional, social, etc. It is an experience of choice, freedom and responsibility for the child.
Purposes of the playing activities:
1. therapeutic and discharge
2. preventive
3. pleasure and reality
Childhood is the stage of building personality and links to the world. Creativity was emphasized as a factor of development. Question of security around playing.
Evaluation of the different needs:
- need for advocacy towards adults for the importance of playing
- need for space /activity for special needs for children
- need for designing academic programs or professional diploma
- need for safety and security
- lack of qualified human resources
List of the Participants
FSGT-Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du travail : Aurore FAIVRE , Jean-Luc DUMONT
GTC – Guidance and Training Center: Victor KAWWAS
ECRC – Early Childhood Research center: Nahiya HAMED
BASR – Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation: Rima CANAWATI
EMDH – Enfants du Monde-Droits de l’Homme : Sandrine LECOMTE
“PLAY” as a tool for education and development of children
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Theme 3: School Tutoring
Evaluation of the different needs:
- Find a balance of effective methodologies to deal with the problem and
- pb of the child in labourhood, in society and family
- curricula
- lack of competencies from the teachers
- Learning disabilities : teachers do not have the competencies to recognize
- Build the skills and the capabilities of children
- Build the self confidence
- Conflict and violence
- Psychological problems, humiliation by teachers
- Special needs
Activities to implement:
- concentrating on non violent work (parliaments, etc.)
- using different methodologies with teachers
- involving teachers and parents in conflict management
- community recreational centers : music, theater, libraries,
- making children leaders of initiatives
- the link to the families must be strengthen
- helping in homeworks
We need to get a specific definition about school tutoring.
List of the Participants
HEBRON-FRANCE: Naela HERBAWY
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TCC – Teacher Creativity Center: Nancy MAHMOUD
4- Working groups on the cross-cutting and common activities
The cross-cutting activities or transversal lines are a way for all the associations/NGOs to have common objectives for specific activities. These common lines of the Inter-Associative Program will be discussed, debated, planned and organized between the involved associations.
The cross-cutting activities will then develop an active partnership between the organizations, Palestinian/Palestinian and French/Palestinian, on new fields of activities. The idea is that the different organization will then profit from the experience of the others by doing together, by sharing the skills and practices. These activities will work on the following:
- Develop the capacity building of some organizations
- Organize specific events/seminars on wide questions related to childhood
- Organize/develop trainings to develop the skills of the educational staff
- Create a network/make it know
Some ideas …for the cross-cutting activities of the PIA
Networking
- Creating a guide with the expertise, skills, activities and projects from our organizations
- Creating a network website for communication (linked to the Platform) in Fr, Ar and En, with articles
- Sharing the documents and information on a website
- Writing some articles about our projects and the situation of occupation to be sent to France
Capacity building
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Equipment for new/small organizations (with the support fund)
- Helping on other call for proposals : updated information about education, there is a need around assessment
- Helping on the writing of the proposals
- Promoting some transfers of skills thanks to specific workshops
- Promoting the management of the organizations, promoting exchange of management and working tools
Seminars and events/campaigns
- Making a campaign about the 'importance of playing for children'
- Big day for children (at a large scale) (for all the children of our organizations)
- Training for the kids about 'good food' (with leaders in school, in different cities)
- Action in a checkpoint with the children
- Seminar about drug addiction, violence, etc. (concerning the environment of the children)
- Fair for the youth literature
- Develop a campaign for the parents and the public authorities about early childhood
Trainings
- On early childhood
- Training courses among our associations
- For the volunteers in general
- Strengthen the present trainings
Writing of the 3-year-program 2010-2012
- Asking for the development of infrastructures
- Create a working group in order to write the 3-year-plan
+ Follow-up
- Exchanges about practices
- Enhance our activity with the Palestinian Authorities (MoEHE)
- Helping together (between the organizations of the network
Linking to/ or creating a national coalition
Innovation…Difficult areas…Interaction with others…
Reception
Around 60 persons attend the Reception, founders, partners and several associations acting in education for Palestine.
The French Consulate honors the event by his presence, welcoming the beginning of the PIA.
He notices that this program, implemented in partnership between French and Palestinian NGOs, shows the old and strong support of the French government for the Palestinian people. He underlines the importance of such a program in non-formal education in a context where children are exposed to so bad conditions of life, when they should be the future of the Palestinian society.
The speech of the French Consulate
Reading of the speech of Mr Issa SABBAH from the Canaan Institute from Gaza, unable, due to the situation, to join us and represent our partners from Gaza
Introduction of the French NGOs Platform for Palestine by Florence GIARD.
Presentation of a Power Point of the Pilot Phase of the PIA
- Sum-up of the past studies on the needs in the field of education in Palestine;
- Introduction of the Pilot Phase of the PIA;
- Main objectives of the program and the expected results in the different targeted areas;
- Different actions of the PIA and the beneficiaries;
- How to submit a proposal to the Support Fund;
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The cross-cutting activities.
Day 2: the 27th of November 2008
1- Presentation of the participants
Each participant takes time to introduce himself, the main activities of his association and his objectives of his participation to the Launching Event.
3- Presentation of the Support Fund
Introduction of the support fund:
- Role of the Support Fund in the framework of the PIA
- The objectives of the Support Fund
- Evaluation of the proposals
- Selection Committee and process of selection
- Eligibility criteria
Introduction of the eligibility criteria of the support fund answering several questions:
Florence GIARD and Marion JEUNE introduce the modalities for the selection of the projects:
- Evaluation of the proposals
- Selection Committee and process of selection
The Support Fund : generalities
The Support fund : Recommandations
The Support Fund: some details for the submission of the proposals
Form 1
Form 2
Form 3This day of meeting actually ends at 1:00AM because of logistic reasons.
Day 3: the 28th of November 2008
Results of the meeting of the Steering Committee
The review of the PIA made during the Steering Committee on the 28th of November 2008.
8 persons were present this Steering Committee:
- Florence GIARD
- Marion JEUNE
- Jamil KADI
- Sèverine KOUKIDIS
- Sandrine LECOMTE
- Aurore FAIVRE
- Claude SAINT-MARC
- Anne-Marie CALVET
All the members of the Steering Committee were globally satisfied by the event.
They noticed the following ideas:
- A good number of people and organizations attended the event
- The Palestinian organizations were involved in the working groups and succeeded to give some guidelines for the themes and the cross-cutting activities of the PIA
- The exchanges of ideas and the debates happened during the different working groups organized; some ideas of partnerships were raised
- The objectives of the launching event were globally reached
The announcement of the Support Fund was edited in the newspaper 2 days after the Launching Event
Acknowledgements
The team of the PIA is willing to thank all actors of education present in our launching event.
We hope that our cooperation will be successful and fruitful all this year long.