{"id":2269,"date":"2018-04-12T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/didouqen.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:12:05","slug":"notes-from-the-field-28-students-trained-60000-trees-planted-and-9-villages-receive-clean-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/notes-from-the-field-28-students-trained-60000-trees-planted-and-9-villages-receive-clean-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTES FROM THE FIELD: 28 STUDENTS TRAINED, 60,000 TREES PLANTED, AND 9 VILLAGES RECEIVE CLEAN DRINKING WATER"},"content":{"rendered":"
In partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Morocco, HAF organized and presented a series of workshops focused on the theme of inclusive community planning during the months of January and February 2010. HAF provided hands-on training to twenty-eight Masters students at Hassan II University\u2019s Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Mohammedia, Morocco. Five workshops were held over the course of three weeks, both in the field and at the Center for Community Consensus-Building and Sustainable Development<\/a>\u00a0– a partnership between HAF and Hassan II University-Mohammedia. Field-based training was held in the villages of Rass El Bghal and Ain El Jebbouja, in the Commune of Mansouria in the Region of Mohammedia, which offered students the opportunity to practice hands-on activities, such as community mapping, pair-wise ranking, and institutional diagramming \u2013 all with the ultimate goal of helping communities reach consensus on their priority development needs. Through this multi-day experience they built relationships with the local population and gained deeper insights into the development challenges facing communities close to home. The students created practical plans for how to continue their work with the communities beyond the workshop series, and HAF has created an internship program to help facilitate this.<\/p>\n