SHAMS – Subproject 1

Bosra Development Office - BDO

•The objectives and requirements

•The tasks, phases and the colours

•The trainings

•The people

•The deliverables within Shams and beyond

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ObjectivesCreate a permanent structure, located in a building in the old city with

qualified staff that can practically assist, support and stimulate the city of Bosra and its inhabitants on their way to sustainable development and improvement of living condition.

Requirements– Start with doable and visible action, take time to create trust

among inhabitants

– Good equipment, reliable office hours

– Create reputation of being accountable = take on what you can manage and deliver on time

The objectives and requirements

Short-term

• Connect to the inhabitants, inform about the project SHAMS and other projects in the future, collect feedback provide space for specific activities, ad.es learning english

• Develop ideas for development and act wherever it is possible and in alignment with the authorities, immediately, and/or activate people among the inhabitants capable and willing to do it

Medium- term

• Plan and organise minor works and/or project meetings; organise visitors from European universities that come for study tour

• Develop and manage new projects, create new funds for Bosra

Its tasks, phases and colours

Long- term

• Coordinate and network with other initiatives – Lobby

• Observe emerging new tendencies in the area of sustainable tourism – deliver information to policy makers

connectact

plan,organisedevelop

networkobserve

• Integral Approach and

Spiraldynamics

• SHAMS - Project Accounting

• Creative/Strategic Thinking, SEA,

General communication on project

for Dalida?

• Internet Research

• Office management – Keeping

track of events and documents

• Selected software training

• Project development and

management, Budgeting

Fundraising, Communication

• Networking and Coordination

• Sustainable Development

• General Heritage Management

• Sustainable Tourism, Enterprise

creation

• Elza Maalouf, Anne Caspari

• Francesca Agostini

• Anne Caspari, Kamal Bitar

• Bettina Geiken (online?)

• Anne Verdoot? or Ghada Rifai

• Ghada Rifai, Kamal Bitar

• Anne Caspari, Bettina Geiken, Kamal Bitar

• ICCROM – Comune di Roma?• Federculture – Comune di

Roma?

The trainings – on-site and online

Indicative roadmap • July 2007

• From 15th October

• From 15th October

• As soon as contracts are ready

• November 07

• December 07 – Dec 2008

• December 07 – Dec 2008

• December 07 – Dec 2008

The people – Essential skills

Staff´(linked TOR)

• Ahmad Shahma – Senior

• Wa’ad Al Moukdad – Junior?

• N.N from Governorate of Dara’a

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Assistants

• Dalida

• Women from the old city

• President of Womens League

• Girls from schools

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Supervision

• Kamal Bitar

• Ghada Rifai

• Anne Caspari

• Kasem Khalil

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The deliverables within Shams and beyond

During the duration of the project Shams•Have set up the Office and have it open regularly

•Provide information in arabic about the project and the initiatives,

•Have the staff (and other people) trained

•Have created a database of feasible funding possibilities for Bosra

•Develop a new project and submit it to a donor organisation

•Coordinate and make the link project activities and government initiatives

•Support the municipality to elaborate the financial reports of SHAMS

•Find financing for the following years - lobbying

Beyond SHAMS

Implement new projects, constantly produce new initiatives

Coordinate the numerous visitors and volunteer groups coming from Europe

Monitor the implementation of the SEA strategic plan

Monitor the rehabilitation works, advise municipality on new trends