MIFTAH: Anti- corruption youth strategy; young Palestinians put a corruption-free society as their priority

"...This is their future, they say, because in the end, it is the youth that seeks a society free of corruption that will offer them the opportunity to obtain the right job and the right social status based on their own merits, not on grounds of nepotism and favoritism."

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MIFTAH Anti- corruption youth strategy; young Palestinians put a corruption-free society as their priority 

Ramallah – Now Mohammed Najjar, Najwan Abu Nijem and Zeina Ramadan from MIFTAH’s Palestinian Youth Network are confident that they can begin fighting corruption in all shapes and forms along with other youth groups. This is because these three, along with other youths from the entire political and social spectrum in Palestine, have been working diligently for the past few months in training, awareness and education on the subject of corruption and have finally formulated the first youth anti-corruption strategy, which was announced last week, on January 16.
 
MIFTAH played a strong supporting role for these young Palestinians as did the Anti-Corruption Commission, which signed a memo of understanding with MIFTAH to provide the necessary help and training to youth. The youths were also helped by MIFTAH project coordinator Shadi Zeidat who played a pivotal role in preparing, following up and supervising youth groups side by side with MIFTAH’s program director Lamis Shuaibi, who helped direct these groups over the months of training.

Shuaibi says the network is a developed model for Palestinian youth groups given its diversity at the social, intellectual and geographic levels; it also provided a participatory and safe space for youths with a mutual vision ...READ MORE

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