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BAREFOOT COLLEGE

BAREFOOT COLLEGE. ‘The Grandmother Revolution’. First Arab States Regional South-South Development Expo- ILO Solution Forum: Youth Employment and Decent Work in the Arab States Qatar, 19- 21 February 2014. Presented by Raouf Dabbas The Jordanian Friends of Environment Society. 49 LEAST

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BAREFOOT COLLEGE

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  1. BAREFOOT COLLEGE ‘The Grandmother Revolution’ First Arab States Regional South-South Development Expo- ILO Solution Forum: Youth Employment and Decent Work in the Arab States Qatar, 19- 21 February 2014 Presented by Raouf Dabbas The Jordanian Friends of Environment Society

  2. 49LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 12% MAKE UP 12%OF THE WORLD POPULATION 80% of these people live in rural areas.

  3. High unemployment rates especially among the youth • Extreme poverty • Social unrest and civil disobedience • Difficult living environment

  4. The solutions being offered are often irrelevant & inadequate to their lives.

  5. Scalable Impact Could the solution be a Grandmother? 64 COUNTRIES 859 BAREFOOT SOLAR ENGINEERS 1081 VILLAGES 45,000 HOUSES

  6. What can we do?

  7. Triangular cooperation…A partnership among equals North • knowledge sharing and transfer of southern-grown development solutions • Sharing good practices in the formulation and adaptation (or replication) of micro-finance schemes to face the rising levels of unemployment and loss of jobs among vulnerable groups; • Sharing experiences on new incentives and mechanisms for enterprise creation, especially SMEs, which in developing and developed countries constitute the largest part of the sustainable and growth-generating employment base; • Promoting the replication and adaptation of employment guarantee programmes/schemes in developing countries that can be especially cost-effective during a crisis. (e.g. in Argentina, Indonesia and, particularly, in India); • Sharing of youth employment schemes, given that young men and women are most likely to be affected by growing unemployment and precarious jobs. Jordan FOE South Barefoot South

  8. The Jordanian Friends of Environment Society

  9. Manshiet Al Gayath

  10. Learning by doing – hand signals, colors, drawings

  11. 6 month training in a remote rural village where they don’t speak the language, the food is different, life is different

  12. Exposed to a World of Possibilities Our grandmother experiences 40 years of rural village transformation upon arrival to Barefoot College. SOLAR WATER ACTIVISM EDUCATION LIVELIHOOD

  13. World of Possibilities Activism Solutions ACTIVISM SOCIAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL

  14. North South South

  15. Thank you… For more information regarding: http://www.barefootcollege.org For more information regarding:The Jordanian Friends of Environment Society http://www.jofoe.org

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