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Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Given the numerous challenges of the Palestinian context, it is increasingly relevant to engage Palestinian youth in order to increase their individual resilience and help them cope with the stress they face. Youth in Gaza face double exclusion compared to their peers in the West Bank as a result of settlements and internal conflict, which makes engaging them more difficult and therefore requires additional funding, effort, and monitoring to achieve meaningful change and results.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine approach, beneficiaries, complex, Coordinate, effective, engagement, goals, impact, include, inclusion, inclusive, motivate, motivation, participation, plan, planning, project design, results, target, youth

Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

This project has demonstrated that even in the complex and difficult context of Palestine, setting realistic objectives in terms of the number of beneficiaries and communities of intervention, and adopting a pragmatic approach that includes relevant and useful activities such as training and community services, can engage different target groups, regardless of their political affiliations and sensitivities, and generate impact at both the individual and community levels.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine approach, beneficiaries, challenge, community, Coordinate, effective, engagement, goals, impact, plan, planning, project design, results, services, target, training, utility

Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: March 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The case of the grantee Zimam demonstrated that even though the organisation did not have a significant track record, the quality of the project proposal submitted by the grantee’s finance team could demonstrate their capability to manage funds. Indeed, UNDEF showed audacity and open-mindedness in agreeing to fund this young organisation.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine approach, commitment, credibility, expertise, finance, fund, grassroots, project design, project management, proposal

Project: Citizens: empowering local communities, improving local governance
Evaluation Date: July 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The following were the factors for a well-designed and effectively implemented youth engagement project:

The project design with a theory of change that was shared and assimilated by the implementation team and the implementing partners.
The strategy used to enter new communities, which was pragmatic, culturally sensitive, and politically neutral.
The choice of implementing partners (they were from within the communities, credible, and well-known at the local level).
The partnership strategy, which was based on empowering implementing partners and building their capacity.
The adequate approach for positive youth engagement (recognition, accountability, and exploring their potential).
The quality of the training programme and the diversity of learning formats.
Well thought-out communication.

Theme: Youth engagement, Interaction with government

Palestine change, communicate, community, culture, effective, empowerment, implement, local, motivate, motivation, needs, participation, partner, politics, project design, quality control, training, youth

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The young people themselves had creative ideas about how to secure both funds and in-kind support for their activities; however repeatedly having to source such support can over time become a disincentive to participation. Despite the strong commitment to volunteerism created and promoted by the project, it would have been a good idea to increase the attention given to fundraising during the training provided to the elected Youth Local Council members and to bring in an experienced fundraiser to deliver such training so that the young participants would have access to the resources necessary to implement their many creative ideas.

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine funding, sustainability, training

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Data collection and analysis would have been more useful to the project and to future planning, if it was disaggregated by sex. This allows gender to be appropriately programmed and for a more gender-sensitive understanding of the potential and risks in any activity. Although this project in Palestine did pay attention to gender in many ways, it was a pity that the pre- and post-tests did not and so did not allow to measure whether there was a difference between the understanding/learning of male and female participants (and thus to see where changes to training or activities might be made).

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine data, gender

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The Youth Local Councils (YLC) in Palestine became very active on social networks; all opened a Facebook page and a common page was created to exchange best practices. The bringing-together of the YLCs in networking meetings and training and promoting a mentoring system to support new participants and retain the experience and expertise of young participants reaching the age limit of 22 were mentioned by a number of beneficiaries.

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine network, social media

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Although not a prominent component of the project, gender was appropriately taken into account in a number of ways. There was awareness from the outset that girls/women in the communities must participate and be represented, despite the challenges this engendered. The training materials and events in Palestine all took gender considerations into account.

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine design, gender

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The young people in Palestine were very aware that they cannot continue to serve as youth councillors past the age limit set by the project (16 – 22 years) but have clear ideas of how they can both support younger people taking on the youth councillor role and also continue to participate as trainers and mentors.

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine engagement, mentoring

Project: Youth local councils for civic engagement and social change in Palestine
Evaluation Date: December 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The young participants not only learned about democratic processes and the roles and responsibilities deriving from them, they were able to put these into practice. From drawing up roles and responsibilities of the Youth Local Council to participating in elections, campaigning and then representing their constituents, the young people knew that they were creating something new and important in their lives and in the lives of their communities in Palestine.

Theme: Youth engagement

Palestine empowerment, participation

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