Legislative Environment Development Project

After months of preparations that included three stages: “planning, implementation, evaluation,” the “Developing the Legislative Environment for Civil and Community Work in Syria” team within the Nation Building Movement has completed the first stage of the project.

During these stages, work was carried out on two main tracks. The first was the “legal experts track” who worked in cooperation with the team to classify the guide to laws regulating community and civil work and collect its legal materials. The second track specialized in raising awareness and building a team that carries the project’s message and forms the core of basic advocacy. Therefore, the Building Movement, along with the project team, invited 50 activists, from diverse cultural, regional and civil backgrounds, to be the launch of a network that carries the idea in all Syrian governorates.

After a series of workshops and training sessions, the project team completed the preparation of an initial draft of the guide, in addition to a knowledge paper entitled “Towards an Independent and Effective Civil Society,” which includes basic determinants of civil work agreed upon by the network of fifty activists.

It is worth mentioning that this project came to achieve main objectives, including raising awareness of the current legislative environment and structure regulating civil work in Syria, and trying to reach a common understanding between “governmental regulatory bodies, international organizations, and civil organizations” to develop a legislative environment that encourages civil work in Syria.

The Nation Building Movement is preparing, with the Legislative Environment Project team, to launch the second phase of the project, to complete the guide and study the gaps between the regulatory legislation and the desired civil roles.​