Press Coverage
The media professionals were followed up by the supervising expert to produce media reports and news stories that achieve the project’s vision for elections, development and peacebuilding. The number of news stories implemented reached:
- 30 press and radio reports on development and peace building in localities:
Suggestion: Examination of candidates under the Local Administration Law
Increase in women candidates for local councils in rural Damascus and ambition to achieve added value in service work
Where do local councils get their revenues from and where do they spend them?
Professor Mahmoud Maamari, Director of Municipal Councils, to Zenobia FM: The mission of municipal councils is to develop the local community culturally, economically and urbanistically.
Emphasis on maintaining security and order to ensure the success of local administration elections in Hama
The rush of qualified candidates to run for local administration elections. Will it tip the balance in favor of services?
Local Development: An Introduction to Change the Ways of Dealing with Local Administration Elections in Syria
In the presence of the exorbitant “spending” of advertising in the streets of Aleppo.. Candidates resort to social media to communicate with their voters
Will the lack of financial resources remain an excuse for heads of administrative units to refrain from completing service projects?
Citizens in Daraya and Moadamiya in Rif Dimashq elect their representatives for local administrative councils
Polling stations in Rif Dimashq Governorate witness good turnout
What does the citizen want from local councils? Are they capable of making a positive change in the service reality?
13 male and female journalists compete in local council elections. Al-Hajli: “The nature of a journalist’s work makes him a reporter and a decision maker.”
Director of Councils: “Training programs for heads and members of executive offices in administrative units”… For the first time in Quneitra’s history, 45 women have reached local councils and 43 have university degrees in the provincial council
Mr. Samer Dahi, Head of the “Your Role” Initiative in the Nation Building Movement, is the guest of the episode from Homs today.
New local councils...and the challenges of effective presence
Damascus election results... candidates who did not win any votes and others who could be counted on the fingers of one hand
Local Councils and Society: The Need for Partnership
17% is the percentage of representation of women in Aleppo in the provincial council...an increase of 9% over the previous session...a social researcher: "The percentage is still small and women's tasks are limited to specific offices"
Huge tasks facing the new local administrative councils.. Optimum investment of resources and implementation of development projects.. Improving services for citizens in all sectors
“Once Upon a Time… Aleppo” is a magical world of art, lights and shadows, and its only message is to make peace.