Our Strategic

NAWA for Culture and Arts Association (NAWA) is a non-profit organization founded in April 2014 by Ms. Reem Abu Jaber and a group of well-educated, motivated, and dedicated youth that are mostly women.

NAWA aims to create conducive conditions to enhance the personal fulfillment and well-being of children, young adults, and youth by enhancing their lifelong learning capabilities, inclusive learning, 21st-century skills, and work-technical competencies, as well as supporting parents and educators to develop their parenting and educational skills. Through five well-established centers in Deir Al-Balah area, located in the middle governorate of the Gaza Strip, NAWA offers non-discriminatory services to thousands of children, young adults, youth, parents, and educators who have limited access to learning opportunities.

Vision

All Palestinians gain access to innovative, inclusive, high-quality education as well as a cultural environment for the Palestinian family.

Mission

As a local independent NGO, NAWA aims to promote and provide supportive, innovative, and inclusive learning opportunities for all.

Cross-cutting issues

NAWA has adopted the following cross-cutting principles and approaches:

•        A human rights-based approach (HRBA).

•        Inclusive development approach.

•        Gender equality.

•        Responsible environmental culture.

CORE VALUES

•        Human beings, land, and society: As humans and Palestinians, NAWA actively works to deepen the connection between human self-fulfillment, the land, and its resources, and the impact of human learning on the development of their society.

•        Self-fulfillment realization: NAWA provides an encouraging environment for human passions and realizing their self-fulfillment and vision.

•        Self-confidence: NAWA promotes and highly supports self-trust among children, young adults, and youth. It makes all the difference.

•        Responsibilities: NAWA promotes solidarity and highly supports human responsibilities towards others and society. 

•        Happiness heals: NAWA believes that happiness can help humans to heal. Fun and learning are highly encouraged in NAWA’s interventions.

•        Partnerships: NAWA is open to partnerships, cooperation, and coordination with relevant stakeholders and actors. The mutual respect that values institutional identity, independent synergies, and ensuring constructive cooperation is the basis for establishing true partnerships.

NAWA holds itself accountable to these values through its Complaint, Feedback, & Response mechanism SOPs, a Safeguarding policy, a Child Protection policy and Inclusion policy that describes the procedures and process to achieve these values and how NAWA will act if these values are not being fulfilled. 

ALIGNMENTS

NAWA’s efforts are in accordance with:

•          The National Policy Agenda 2017-2022 (National priority 8: quality education for all).

•          The Education Sector Strategy 2017-2022 (Sector Goals 1&2 1. Ensuring safe, inclusive, and equitable access to quality education at all levels of the system and 2. Developing a student-centered teaching and learning pedagogy and environment); That strategy calls for 1) Encouraging and expanding implementation of the free activity and extra-curricular activities as an integral part of the implementation of the curriculum, and making learning more enjoyable for students; 2)Emphasizing the importance of physical education and fine arts, as well as develop strategies to activate these activities at school, especially at the basic school level the National Culture.

•          The Heritage Sector Strategy 2017-2022 (Strategic Objectives 1&4 1. Cultural Heritage of the Palestinian People is Protected, Safeguarded and Renewed through Policy 4. A more Empowering Environment for Palestinian Culture that supports the Citizen's Right to Culture and Disseminates a National Culture that achieves Sustainable Cultural Development and supports and stimulates Creativity Financially and Morally).

•          The Sustainable Development Goals of “2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development” (SDGs 3, 4, 5 &10) 3. Good health and wellbeing: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 4. Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. 5. Gender equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. 10. Reduced Inequalities: Reduce inequality within and among countries.

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