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Report on Youth Delegation to Tuscany Region in
Italy
Youth spring across ethnicities: a new social alliance to empower youth of minorities in North Iraq and KRG
EuropeAid-European Commissions DIC-MED/2013334-829
The delegation in Iraq and KRG visited Tuscany region in Italy between 10th -19th of December
2015 within the project of “youth spring across Ethnicities” , the project funded by European
Union and implemented by Al Mesalla ORG. for Human Resource Development, UPP and ARCI
and some other local institutes, association and organizations in each of Italy and KRG,
including IID, Yazidi Solidarity, Municipal of Valdera , Table of peace …etc.
The purpose of the delegation to:
1. Exchange information and ideas and to transfer the situation and crises and also the
situation of IDPs and Syrian refugees.
2. The situation of the youth and women situation in the region.
3. Minorities in Iraq and the risks are facing.
4. The situation of the cities and villages after ISIS crises.
5. How to involve youth in the youth center and how to benefit from experience in
Tuscany region.
Below is the agenda for the delegation to Italy:
1- Azra Jwad – Christian from Mosul/Qaraqosh
2- Haneen Maki- Bahai Minority / Baghdad
3- Basam Salim – Yazidi Minority from Mosul/Basheqa
4- Rana Abdul – (Arab-Turkman-Kurd) from Mosul
5- Resan Edo- Yazidi from Shxan/ Mosul
6- Fuad Abdullah – Kurdish muslim from Kirkuk
7- Fathi – Director from Ankawa Youth Center
8- Salar Ahmed- project coordinator
Subject : Delegation to Italy Center name: Youth Center delegation
Reported by: Salar Ahmed & Rana Al Bayati Date:10-19/Decemberr/2015
Below is the agenda for the delegation:
SCHEDULE OF THE IRAQI DELEGATION IN TUSCANY 11-19 of December 2015
Day hour place
PERSONS OR INSTITUTION TO BE MET
MEETING REASON REFERENCES FOR
THE DEFINITION OF PROGRAMS
Friday 11.12
11.00 Arrival of delegation
Partners of project in Civil society
Welcome at the airport. Supper and explanation of weekly program.
Martina Pignatti, Carla Cocilova, Pietro Pertici
15.00 Pontedera
Meeting with the Mayors board of the Union of Municipalities
Welcome and formal meeting with Politicians
Giovanni Forte
Night Dinner
Saturday 12.12
9.00-13.00 a.m.
Pontedera (PI)
1st training session (4h): Participative and inclusive approach. How to draft a comprehensive action plan. Example of programs addressed to youth and created by a system of consultation between institutions and civil society.
Carla Cocilova Sara Bandecchi (ARCI Servizio Civile) Giovanni Forte Monica Baldini
16.00-18.00
Fornacette (PI)
Meeting with Youth association Comitato XXV Aprile
Meeting a concrete and active experience of youth association
To be confirmed
18.30-24.00
Vicopisano (PI)
Circolo ARCI Ortaccio
Meeting with the members of the circle. Sharing the idea of community center. Explaining how to build a comprehensive and collective program of activities. Dinner and public initiative in the circle.
Carla Cocilova
Sunday 13.12
12.00 Lari (PI)
Social lunch and meeting with Associazione la Rossa
Knowing an association and sharing the project purposes and activities
Carla Cocilova
Afternoon Free
Monday 14.12
9.00-13.00
Pontedera
1st training session (4h): Participative and inclusive approach. How to draft a comprehensive action plan. Example of programs addressed to youth and created by a system of consultation between institutions and civil society.
Carla Cocilova Giovanni Forte Coop.Arnèra (social cooperative staff)
14.30-18.30
Pontedera
2nd session (4 hours) Team building and team working activities. Different practical and concrete techniques to build up a group (as staff team and as youth group)
Coop.Arnèra (social cooperative staff)
Tuesday 15.12
Morning and afternoon
Empoli
ARCI Empolese Valdelsa and Association Agrado (Youth association working with youth)
3rd session (8 hours) Youth involvement and community approach: theory, programs and some concrete examples
21.00 Pontedera Population
Public initiative about Iraqi situation and presentation of the project
Wednesday 16.12
9.00-11.00 11.30-12.30
Pisa
Students and teachers Municipality representatives
Meeting with High schools Formal meeting with Pisa Municipality
Assessora M.Chiofalo
16.00-19.00
Pisa, UPP office, ex Opera Cardinal Maffi
University students and civil society representatives
Meeting with student representatives and associations of Pisa
Martina Pignatti
21.00 Pisa Population
Participation to an event organized by students networks about international situation
Martina Pignatti
Thursday 17.12
morning
FREE DAY afternoon
Friday 18.12
morning Meeting with school or youth association
TBC
Visit of Florence
18.00 Participation to a public initiative
Saturday 19.12
Morning Pontedera Partners Evaluation and follow up
6 pm Departure
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The delegation arrived to Pontedera noon time on 11th of
December 2015, and in same day had the first meeting to
discuss the agenda with each of Carla from ARCI Association
and Martina from UPP and to address the role of each
Planning for delegation
activities with each of UPP
and ARCI
individual from Iraqi delegation and the association, organizations and municipal that planned to
visit, also discussed logistic issues related to the delegation.
Meeting with president
of Municipals in
Valdera and some
Mayors
In the same day the delegation met with the Mayors board of the Union of Municipalities and
also the president of 12 municipals in Valdera Mr, Giovanni Forte, the Mayors welcome the
delegation and explained why it is important to meet such a delegation from Iraq, in order to
understand better the situation in Iraq and Kurdistan Region after recent crises including the
war against ISIS, and also explained the work in the municipals of Valdera.
The delegation clarified some important points as they came from different part of Iraq and half
o0f them were internal displacement people who left their places because of the ISIS attach in
Iraq, also explained the situation of youth in Iraq and why it is important to have youth centers
in the region in order to promote youth from different background for peace-building, tolerance
and coexistence.
Each individual in the delegation gave short speech about different issue related to the whole
situation in the country including immigration, refugees, youth, minority and of course the
violence occur after all crises heated the country, and women issue was part of discussion and
there were some question from audience came to welcome the delegation about some unclear
issues.
On 12th of December 2015 there were the first training for the youth and delegation on
Participative and inclusive approach, How to draft a comprehensive action plan, for Example of
programs addressed to youth and created by a system of consultation between institutions and
civil society, the leaded by each of Carla Cocilova from (ARCI Servizio Civile) Giovanni Forte(the
president of Municipals in Valdera) and Monica Baldini.
The session started with the detailed explanation about the youth center and how the youth
and volunteers work in the center and the ways that the center encourages youth from different
background to involve within the activities in the center.
Carla and Giovanni explained how the system of the youth center and association work and how
could benefit from their experience and translated into the reality situation in Iraq, and also
Monica Baladini explained how the system works that to involve everyone in the process in
using democratic Methods.
On the evening of 12th of December 2015, the delegation meet with the members of the circle
sharing the idea of community center in Vicapisiano, Explaining how to build a comprehensive
and collective program of activities.
This even was opportunity to meet with one of the ARCI circles and discus our project and
situation in Iraq and KRG, also was time we heard how people worked in Kobani crises,
especially the initiatives who support the people in Kobani and the way they are working with
the Kurdish Syrian youth in the city.
On Sunday 13th of December 2015, the delegation participated in the Social lunch and meeting
with Associazione la Rossa in Lari , in order to Knowing an
association and sharing the project purposes and activities.
The delegation shared their idea and opinion with people in the
event and there were speech by Salar Ahmed to introduce the
member of delegation and the project of “Youth Spring Across the
ethnicities” to the people in the event and also the people
welcome the delegation in the Lari.
Social Lunch was a
meeting the
delegation
exchanged the idea
and shared
information with the
local communities in
presence of some
refugees from Africa
Training session: Participative and inclusive approach. How to draft a comprehensive action plan.
Example of programs addressed to youth and created by a system of consultation between
institutions and civil society.
On 14th of December 2015, the delegation participated in the session to plan to address how to
work with youth and children in the centers with the trainer Helga, the trainer worked with the
youth on how to involve and encourage youth in the activities and in the center, and also
discussed some methods that had been implemented in the youth centers in the past.
On the same day on 14th of December 2015, the delegation
visited Youth association (Agardo) in Sovigliana in Employ
City to discuss Youth involvement and community approach:
theory, programs and some concrete examples.
The plan for meeting the youth center to exchange experience and ideas between both centers,
the delegation met with the staff, trainers and volunteers in the Agardo center, plus of the
Mayor of the center, the first day of the meeting starting with the welcome and introduction of
the both centers, and also was detail explanation about the center partner and how they write
and apply for the projects.
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On 15th of December 2015, the delegation
participated in the second session of training
with the trainer Helga , and it was practice
Agardo Youth
Association,
working with youth
activities how to deal with youth and how to direct them in academic way to lead other
volunteers, the youth from delegation participate with Helga in deep trainings and discussion to
build their capacity and to understand more how to work with youth and children.
Second day in Agardo Youth
Association to introduce them with
activities and plan of the youth center
in KRG and how the plan work
The second day of the delegation visit to go back to Agardo Association Center on 15th of
December 2015, the meeting was to introduce Agardo Association with Youth center in KRG,
and how new developed the plan to involve youth in the center and the methods to organize
activities in the center and outside centers in the IDPs camp.
The delegation present two PowerPoint by Each of project manager Salar Ahmed and
coordinator for Erbil Center Fouad Abdullah about the establishment of the youth centers and
how to create safe place for youth to visit it in daily basis and the service provided freely by the
center to the youth.
The delegation participated in the session with
people from Pontedera, politician, Associations
and activists to talk about Iraqi situation and
present whole project “Youth Spring across
Ethinicities” in order for people in the region to understand more about the situation in Iraq
before and after ISIS war and all other crises, including flow of the IDPs toward Kurdistan region
which estimated by more than 1500000 people from other Iraqi cities , also each of the member
of the delegation spoke about their minorities and components and their cities.
Meeting with schools:
On 16th of December 2015, the delegation dived in to two groups in order to visit secondary
schools as there were two meeting in same time in two schools for that was necessary to dived
delegation to cover as much as many schools in same time.
The meeting was about to tell students what we do in the youth center and also to explain for
them general situation for youth in our country also to give them some of the example about
the schools in Iraq and how to encourage them in the Youth Centre and transfer the activities of
the youth center to the schools.
There were time of discussion and questions asked by the students in order to get more
information about real situation and the situation of the IDPs girls in the camp and outside camp
also local community, the student union in the schools shoed the delegation how the process of
Meeting with people from
Pontedera and politician
involving youth and students work in the schools to involve youth in the decision making, also it
was exchanging T-Shirts with logo of the center with schools.
Meeting with University students in UPP office
The delegation meet with University students in Pisa inside Main UPP office in order to discuss
youth situation and also to answer students questions and concerns about multiple issues in
Iraq and Kurdistan related to the women, IDPs, refugees, students and youth.
Participation to an event organized by students networks about international situation
The delegation meet with big number of people from organizations, associations, students
unions and others interested to know more about Iraq and Kurdistan region, the discussion
started and lasted for more than two hours, at the beginning it was presentations from some
members of the delegation about the situation in Iraq, especially Mosul city, the discussion
mainly was about Ethnic and religion minorities and how they effected of ISIS attack in the
region, people in Italy want to know exactly what is happening on the ground, as we heard from
them, they don’t believe much media and the stories telling in the media, the delegation tried to
transfer the correct information and news about what happening in Iraq and Kurdistan and the
war effected people life.
Formal meeting with Pisa Municipality
In the afternoon of 16th December 2015, the delegations meet with Mrs., Maria luicia from Pisa
Municipal and people from women union we discussed the process of the project and the work
in the Youth Centers in Kurdistan region, the discussion lasted more than 1 hour.
Pisa municipal promised to support us if we have any proposal working in schools and with the
youth, then Al Mesalla ORG. for Human Resource Development have been awarded with prize
form Pisa Municipal, this prize is given to individual, organizations and Association who has role
to improve women issues in the world.
This year this prize awarded to Al Mesalla ORG. for its role working with local, IDPs and refugees
women in KRG and for the service the organization provided to those women.
Participation to a public initiative
On Friday 18th of December, 2015, the delegation participated in the public events organized by
ARCI, there were different subjects discussed, one of them related to Iraq and Kurdistan region
and the presentation was two parts, first; about the situation in Iraq and youth Centre and the
second part was about why people in Iraq immigrate toward Europe, as there are many risks on
their ways.
Evaluation and Follow-up
At the last day of the delegation trip it was meeting with each of Martina from UPP and Carla
from ARCI and Piatro from Table of peace to evaluate all the activities and the trip agenda and
other issues related to the delegation, was focused on the following points:
1- We all agree in that in general the trip for the delegation was successful and the
activities this year was perfect, it was only few notice we could work on it to make it
more better.
2- The most positive things about the trip was working directly with youth centers in
Tuscany region and live with them and work to gather to find out weak and strong
points and how we could make activities more effected.
3- Exchanging experiences with other organizations, Associations and individuals
4- Training sessions was great for the future we could make it better if it is practically more
than theory, as it is not difficult to get those articles through internet, but the practical
exercises will learn youth a lot.
5- Political and social events were important too in order to give them right message from
Iraqi people and to make them understand the situation and the reality of the crises and
problems directly from the delegation.