Urban Safety

JICC advances urban safety via Mini-Active, a network of over 2000 Palestinian women who actively address problems of deficient or damaged municipal infrastructures, remove environmental hazards and promote healthy living in East Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Impact

+2K

Active women volunteers in the network

39K

Followers of social media

Customer complaints submitted to City Hall annually

150

Women receive training annually

Context

Palestinian women are harnessing their private and collective potential to positively impact community health and safety in East Jerusalem.

East Jerusalem neighborhoods are characterized by a dearth of public services, such as infrequent garbage collection, broken streetlights, unkempt or non-existent sidewalks and a host of environmental hazards such as rodents, illegal dumping sites and potholes. This situation, though significantly improved in recent years, is the result of decades of neglect by local and national government. The local population – approximately 40% of the city – feels disenfranchised and experiences high levels of emotional and economic stress.

Strategies

Partnership

Network volunteers track their customer complaints to City Hall using a Salesforce CRM and give public credit to the Jerusalem municipality on social media whenever major successes are reported.

Incentives and Training

Mini Active offers women first-aid courses, facilitates stress and anger management seminars, and supports women’s upward mobility through training, advocacy and job workshops.

Mental Health

Through NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner training and resilience workshops, women address the harmful long-term emotional effects of living in poverty and those related to war.

Relevant Staff

Intisar Qaraeen

Director of Mini Active

Phone:

+972-2-501-*6518