One Million Voices - The Campaign: Overview

Town Hall Meetings

OneVoice has been working with leading experts in the public opinion field to develop a breaking taboos methodology, which will serve as the basis for a public polling project and a town hall meetings series to be launched in May 2009. A pilot town hall meeting was conducted by OneVoice with 50 of its most advanced youth leaders from each side in July 2008.

Youth Leadership Program

To date in Palestine, approximately 1500 youth activists have completed the training program. These 1500 are spread across: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Hebron, Jericho, Qaliqilya, Jenin and Ramallah.

This year OVP focused on strengthening its youth leadership program, re-activating its youth leaders, and recruiting new ones by taking the following steps:

Printing 30,000 booklet that clarifies in details the OneVoice mission, principles and accomplishments, and distributed them throughout all districts in the West Bank;

Conducting a three-day intensive workshop in which more than 25 youth leaders from all districts gathered to discuss their concerns, suggestions, the internal and external factors that influence OVP’s work;

Starting intensive field visits to all youth groups in all districts including Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron, Tulqarem;

Creating the Youth Advisory Council that consists of 2 representatives from each district. Those members were elected by OVP youth groups in all WB districts;

Resuming the youth training seminars. The first training was for the youth council members. These trainings are conducted on monthly basis;

Starting to support the youth leaders in planning and implementing youth initiatives that serve their communities and help spread the OneVoice message and recruit new members. The purpose of these activities is to empower our youth leaders, give them more responsibility, strengthen their relationships with their local communities, and promote OneVoice as a real grassroots movement interested in civic engagement.

To get involved with this program, please contact Dalia Labadi at dalia@onevoice.ps.