{"id":2119,"date":"2018-04-06T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/didouqen.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2018-04-06T17:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:04:04","slug":"getting-to-know-civil-society-in-boujdour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/getting-to-know-civil-society-in-boujdour\/","title":{"rendered":"GETTING TO KNOW CIVIL SOCIETY IN BOUJDOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Wednesday, November 28, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I first saw the operations of civil society agents of Boujdour Province at the workshop room at the Associative Space, where the INDH training started on Tuesday. Wednesday was the second day of the first training session, which was organized by Boujdour Province within the framework of INDH and in implementation of the Provincial plan of Trainings for the Year of 2012, for the benefit of local associations and coops. This first training session was lead by Mohammed Mustapha Ben Daoud, a member of Expert\u2019 Networks of INDH. There were two groups each one at a room. For the first training session, I attended with the group Animated by Mr. Mustapha Ben Daoud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/images\/stories\/week%204%20photo%202.png\" width=\"814\" height=\"718\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Mohammed Ouhmidou, the president of Social Action Division \u201c DAS\u201d stated that this first training session was under the title \u201c The Financial Management of Associations and Coops\u201d taking into consideration a series of remarks presented by the committee of monitoring the financial reports of the Associations and Coops.\u00a0 These remarks emphasized that local associations and coops should be learn the proper form to write financial reports correctly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After Mr. Ouhmido\u2019s words, Mr. Ben Daoud asked the participants, \u201cWhat do you want to get from this workshop, what are your goals?\u201d After a while of brainstorming, it became clear that the general objective is the development of participants\u2019 administrative and associative capacities\/competences. He quoted Elmahdi Elmanjra, the great Moroccan scholar and said: \u201cDevelopment will not be achieved only when science becomes culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The workshop\u2019s activities came out of the brainstorming and answers to the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">&#8211;\u00a0What is a coop?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">&#8211;\u00a0What is an association?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">&#8211;\u00a0Why do we need to found\/ create a coop\/association?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">&#8211;\u00a0How to guarantee a successful participatory work between the members of association\/coop?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr.. Ben Daoud also explained the hierarchical structure of the coop associations, which is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">1)\u00a0The General Assembly<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">2)\u00a0Board Members, which includes the president, general secretary, and the treasurer<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">3)\u00a0The administration for better management through planning, organization, orientation and monitoring, including a discussion of the two types of administrative management: passive and positive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\">The trainer showed examples of administrative documents and their classification, including: general administrative documents, administrative documents for notification, administrative documents for demonstration, administrative documents for local authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Each day of the training concludes with a learned lesson. Today\u2019s was \u201cChange your tools\/means when things don\u2019t go right, and bear in mind that means are changed according to the situation, time place and people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Thursday, November 29, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was the third day of the first training session. At the beginning, Mr. Ben Daoud had mentioned many theoretical notions about financial management. This helped participants understand budgets, accounting, the use and the exploit, consumption, storage, conservation, maintenance, repair and monitoring for better investment in the association\u00a0 or coop. The leader distilled five principles of the good financial management: simplicity, clarification, transparency, credibility and monitoring. Following these principles brings about successful projects for both the associations and coops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the second part of the workshop, the participants were divided into five smaller groups taking the names of five continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, America and Australia). They were asked to do an exercise in which each group presents a project with its budget after 60 minutes. From this exercise, the participants learned how to develop the budgeting of their project and also how to present the coop\/ association financial report at the end of the year by providing them with samples of financial and project charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After delivering some handouts to the participants, the day concluded with one of Thomas Edison\u2019s wise sayings: \u201cMost failed situations in life were made by those people who didn\u2019t perceive how near they were from success when they finally surrender\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/images\/stories\/week%204%20photo%201.png\" width=\"467\" height=\"504\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Highlights of attending the first training session<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For me, attending the first training session was a huge value-added for my stay in Boujdour. It was a great opportunity for me to get to know the civil society members from different groups of local communities of Boujdour Province. It was really the best moment of getting to know each other, to share discussion, ideas, tea breaks and of course contact information. I am grateful for this time to build trust and friendly relationship with this new heterogeneous community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I appreciated the generosity, the word \u201cMerhba\u201d (welcome), of Sahrawi people whenever I ask them questions. I also appreciate being familiar with Hassanian language and learning from the community when talking together. It is really amazing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I would like to thank Mr. Larbi Touijer, the Governor of Boujdour Province, Mr. Abdelkarim, the president of Interior Affairs Division, Mr. Mohammed Ouhmido, the president of the Social Action Division \u201cDAS\u201d, Mr. Mouloud, staff member of \u201cDAS\u201d and Mr. Khalid, a staff member at the Associative Space of Boujdour for offering me the chance and help to be with these wonderful people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 28, 2012 I first saw the operations of civil society agents of Boujdour Province at the workshop room at the Associative Space, where the INDH training started on Tuesday. 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