Projeler

(Northern Syria, April, 2019 – Ongoing)

(Dresden, Germany, January – April, 2019)

Building upon previous programming to support the NAWAT Group, a political advisory group of diverse Syrian activists who are currently expatriated and living across Europe, ARDI led efforts to amplify the voices of NAWAT’s Syrian activist members through a multifaceted project. ARDI supported NAWAT through, (1) multimedia campaigns that highlight the needs, challenges, threats, stories, local realities, and developments affecting the lives of Syrian minorities; and (2) political participation capacity building and empowerment to increase and strengthen political engagement among female and male Syrian leaders who represent the unique voices and secural political perspectives of their communities across Syria.

(Eastern Syria, September 2018 – January 2019)

ARDI, operating locally under another name, developed and implemented a civil society capacity building workshop series to empower and strengthen local organizations working on social impact projects and humanitarian efforts across the province. Based on an initial assessment of local organizational needs and challenges, as identified by CSO leaders and Local Council members, the two 5-day workshops, training components focused on project cycle management, proposal writing, and project design, project implementation and M&E, and negotiation and collaboration skills-building. In addition, ARDI developed a monthly Atmospheric Report highlighting local news, social updates, political and military concerns, and local council/CSO information from Raqqa via our local network and field team.

(Dresden, Germany, September – December, 2018)

ARDI implemented a series of workshops for Germans and Arabic-speaking ‘new Dresdeners” with migration backgrounds. The workshops are focused on human rights, gender equality, democracy building, and social acceptance, and will be held in Friedrichstadt, Johannstadt, and Gorbitz. ARDI and its partners aim to help build lasting bridges among participants with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds and experiences. ARDI is working in partnership with long-established and highly-regarded local associations, to provide expert training, contextualization of materials and methods, and workshop hosting.

(Eastern Syria, May – October 2018)

(Northern Syria, December 2017 – March 2019)

ARDI is leading efforts to build the capacity of CSOs through a small grants program supporting local initiatives that address peacebuilding and CVE in northern Syria. The objective of the project is to support civil society organizations led by women, youth, and minorities to become more effective at service provision and enable CSOs to be a vehicle for women to advocate for their needs among and Local and Provincial Councils. The program focuses on opposition-held areas, with an emphasis on areas with mixed ethnic and religious groups and provides small-grant funding for activities that increases CSO and Local Council coordination over shared peacebuilding, CVE, and/or service-provision objectives.

(Northern Syria, November 2017 – May 2018)

ARDI led efforts to increase the political representation of women among Local and Provincial Councils in northern Syria by supporting women leaders and women-led CSOs with technical political training and providing small grants to demonstrate their leadership and service provision capacity on-the-ground. Through this project, ARDI developed and led a series of complementary services, programming, and grants for women professionals, leaders, activists, and entrepreneurs to address needs within their communities and by doing so, increase their social standing and enable their increased participation in local governance and decision-making.

(Northern Syria, September 2017 – March 2018)

(Northern Syria, July 2017 – January 2018)

ARDI led efforts to amplify the voices of Alawite, Druze, Ismaili and Christian communities in Syria. The purpose of the project was aimed at support minorities in articulating their needs and vision for the future, separate from Assad Government’s narrative that paints the regime as the ‘protector of minorities, by (1) understanding the social, economic and political situation among minority groups and what their actual hopes, needs, and fears are, (2) amplifying the hopes, fears, and concerns of Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities via an online platform, (3) and empowering female and male leaders among Syria’s minority communities and to support their coordination between each other and with the Syrian political opposition.

(Northern Syria, 2014 – 2016)

ARDI, then operating under a previous name led efforts to implement advocacy and peacebuilding projects in the Syrian Governorates of Sweida, Damascus, Aleppo, Deraa, Al-Hasakah, Idlib, Tartuos, and Lattakia. Through the project, ARDI conducted numerous workshops and provided and managed small-grant funding for workshop participants, which included local activists, civil society organization leaders, and respected community leaders.

(Southern Syria, 2013 – 2015)

ARDI, then operating under a previous name, designed and implemented several successful projects focused on understanding and amplifying the needs of specific Syrian minority groups, including the design of in-depth qualitative and quantitative surveys to better understand the viewpoints of the Syrian Alawite community located in Damascus and along the Syrian coast. The goals of these projects were to identify the fissures between Alawite community and the Assad regime in order to help separate their base of support and highlight the group’s genuine perspectives of the regime using their own words and perspectives.