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JOHUD believes that
everyone has the right to a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Often
the poor, women, the elderly, the young and the disabled find that they are not
consulted or listened to. Through its advocacy campaigns, JOHUD aims to promote
their views. In order to amplify their voice still further, JOHUD promotes the
formation of alliances of organisations that share a common aim to promote the
interests of marginalised people.
Meetings with
decision-makers
JOHUD helps people to
meet face-to-face with decision-makers and to speak for themselves. In recent
years, JOHUD has facilitated consultations with delegations from organisations
such as the World Bank and the UN on issues including education reform, the
rights of women, poverty alleviation strategies, globalisation, economic policies
and unemployment.
Supporting collective
action
JOHUD helps people to act
collectively, through the formation of groups such as parent-teacher
associations, health groups, farmers associations, CBOs and co-ops, so the poor
can have a voice and influence local decisions. When they work closely with
local directorates of education, primary health care, social development, and
the National Aid Fund, together they can find ways to improve the quality and
quantity of services delivered, and to tailor them to meet local needs.
Building alliances
JOHUD has helped forge
alliances between key stakeholders with municipal and governorate leaders
working alongside the community when planning, setting priorities and
allocating budgets. JOHUD looks for solutions that are achievable and seeks to
find ‘win-win' scenarios for social change, strengthening solidarity rather
than creating conflict.
" at first they ignored
us, because they thought we would give up and go away. But we kept
coming back, and then they started to take us seriously."
woman Makana activist
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100+meetings facilitated locally between poor people and
decision-makers
15 local
plans prepared, guiding the work of the CDCs
JOHUD
attends 30+ national meetings affecting the poor
More than
100 media articles present JOHUD's pro-poor work
JOHUD
membership of strategic committees that influence decisions that
affect the poor:
Jordanian
Alliance Against Hunger (JAAH)
National
Agenda
Jordanian
National Commission for Women (JNCW)
Higher
Population Council (HPC), Fair Trade Jordan
(FTJ ), Family Protection team on the National Council for Family Affairs (NCFA)
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| Working together - building alliances
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Working wih rural people,
spending time learning about their livelihoods, that's all part of
building alliances.
Here members of the Fair Trade Jordan Alliance
visited an organic olive farm and helped pick the harvest.
Dialogue beyond borders:
A German tourist builds a bond with men from Wadi Rum and Deeseh: through dialogue, everyone learns new things.
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Makana advocacy - Voice and action to claim rights
For 30 years, the people
of Hay El Berkeh in Mu'ta had to put up with a dirty reservoir of water located
in the middle of their community. MAKANA, a group of women activists from
JOHUD's CDC , mobilised the local community, collecting hundreds of signatures
on a petition to call for action.
Working with the Civil
Defence Directorate, the community arranged for the contaminated water to be
removed and for the hole to be filled in. With the local Municipal Authorities,
a proposal has been submitted to transform the area into a public park for the
benefit of the whole community .
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