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Social Entrepreneurship Skills for Youth and Women

The Arab World Center for Democratic Development and Human Rights, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, held the first workshop for the year of 2022 on Social Entrepreneurship Skills for Youth and Women in Irbid, northern Jordan.

 

The Arab World Center for Democratic Development and Human Rights, in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Stiftung, held the first workshop for the year 2022 over two days in Irbid, where (65) Participants from both youth and women sectors participated.

 

Mrs. Ulla Al-Shraideh & trainer of the workshop Mr. Hasan Al Amour

Mrs. Ulla Al-Shraideh & trainer of the workshop Mr. Hasan Al Amour

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During the workshop the Project Manager at the HSS, Amman Office, Mrs. Ulla Al-Shraideh mentioned that the foundation works in the field of democracy, peace and development, ever since its establishment on April 11, 1967.

Al-Shraideh added, HSS focused on practicing political education, with the aim of supporting democracy and civic education for people, she encouraged the participants to submit any suggestions or comments to the center's management or through the evaluations that are distributed.

The speakers of the workshop, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Sarhan and trainer Hassan Al-Amour said that entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business, organizing its main resources, assuming the associated risks, and creating a free business characterized by creativity and risk, and also the process of seeking to take advantage of opportunities without restrictions by using the available current resources.

With regard to social entrepreneurship, they said, it is the process of finding and implementing innovative solutions to problems and challenges faced by society, the goal of which is mostly non-commercial, but this does not necessarily mean that these solutions are provided free of charge.

They also stated that a community project is every community project that exists with the aim of meeting the unmet needs of a specific group of people, and that it is undertaken by individuals or groups (organizations or businesses), which apply practical skills and techniques in order to come up with innovative solutions that address social, economic and environmental constant challenges.

Speaker Dr. Mahmoud Al Sarhan

Speaker Dr. Mahmoud Al Sarhan

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By the end of the workshop, the participants came out with a set of recommendations and outputs, including:

  1. Providing supportive bodies for youth ideas and projects (financial and logistical support).
  2. Holding courses that are more specialized in the field of entrepreneurship, and intensifying them in various Jordanian governorates and regions.
  3. Providing centers and specialists in the field of business care, with the aim of helping young people in their various locations “for free”.
  4. Focus on holding training programs in the field of "pioneering method" within a plan targeting all segments of society, including children.
  5. Providing entrepreneurship curricula for the first grades "in schools for the primary grades".
  6. Providing entrepreneurs with self-management skills (planning, time management, and communication skills).

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