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- Gender through Theatre: the British Council has partnered the University of Yarmouk and Jordan University Drama Departments to launch a theatre project discussing Gender issues. The British Council has trained 14 students and professors from both universities on the technicalities of the Theatre of the Oppressed (Interactive theatre). This type of theatre holds debates and asks the audience to be part of the play and find a solution for the issue and the problem discussed. The two Plays that toured different Jordanian universities and were attended by hundreds of students, they held the titles of: “Fill the Gap” and “That is it!!!”
- OFAN: the “Opportunities for All Network” is a network of NGOs concerned with the Rights of People with Disability. The British Council has launched this project under the Royal Patronage of Princess Rym Ali in 2007. moreover, the BC signed two MOUs with the National Centre for Human Rights and the Higher Council for the Affairs of People with Disability to start the network and plan its first years activities. The Network aimed “to achieve a full guarantee of the Rights for People with Disability on the basis of Equal Opportunities and Human Rights”. In the time being, the Network membership is 72 NGOs working in the field of Disability and Human Rights.
- InterAction: this Project was renamed to be “Leadership in Community Development”, through this project; the British Council has trained 6 Local Facilitators on new emerging terminologies of Leadership. Through the second Phase the facilitators have trained 50 local community leaders from all over the country. The participants went through 4 training workshops, they have been exposed to the following topics: Appreciative Inquiry, Systems thinking and UBUNTU (the mirror of community work). the third phase of the project for the year 09/10 will be receiving and approving Community Development Projects from the trained participants giving back what they learnt to their societies.
- The Great Debate: the British Council has Signed and MOU for three years to implement the Great Debate Project with Princess Basma Youth resource Centre and Jordan Youth NGO. PBYRC and JY have the responsibility of creating Debate clubs and training youth on Debate skills through our partners the Open Society Institute. This year, Jordan has 8 debate clubs in centres across Jordan and around 200 youth were trained on Debate skills. A National Competition was held between clubs and they discussed several issues concerning inclusion and marginalised groups of the society. The last Debate session of the competition was attended by the Minister of Political Development and the notion was “The minimum age for a person to run for parliament should be 18”.
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