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WAVE : Awareness and advocacy workshop tour

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As part of the WAVE (Women Against a Violent Environment) project, Racines Aisbl organised a series of awareness-raising and advocacy workshops on gender-based violence.

The workshop was aimed at associations, structures and civil organisations, collectives and individuals working on the issue.
The workshop tour took place in: 

  • Tiznit – 6 July 2022.

  • Rabat – 15 July 2022.

  • El Hoceima – 17 July 2022.

  • Casablanca – July 20, 2022 .

All workshops were facilitated by Aïda Khaireddine, who has extensive experience in social action, particularly in research and field diagnosis for the analysis of social issues.
Racines aisbl would like to thank its regional partners for the local coordination of the workshops: Tamaynut (Tiznit), Théâtre Aquarium (Rabat), ATRCA – Association des talents pour la culture et les arts (El Hoceima) and IFAAP – Initiatives de Formations et d’Accompagnement des Acteurs de Proximité (Casablanca)

WAVE: Theatre Forum Tour – “Awili”

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Racines Aisbl has organised a forum theatre tour during the month of July 2022, within the framework of the WAVE (Women Against a Violent Environment) project.
The tour is the outcome of an artistic residency that brought together Moroccan actors and an Egyptian director from the ElMadina Arts Association (Alexandria).

The play “Awili” aims to raise awareness of gender-based violence in Morocco, while inviting the audience to a collective reflection on gender roles and the place of women in Moroccan society.

The play was performed in the public space in Al Hoceima and Casablanca and was a real success with the audience.

Racines Carrées: Incubation of the class of 2021

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Racines Carrées, an artistic and cultural project incubator, has relaunched its activities in September 2021 and has therefore welcomed a completely new promotion of artists and cultural entrepreneurs. 

The group, which is currently pursuing the incubation programme established by Racines Carrées, is composed of about thirty participants for about a dozen projects emerging from different cities and regions of Morocco and belonging to various artistic disciplines (visual arts, circus, literature, dance, theatre…). 

Several of these projects are multidisciplinary, combining art and anthropology, psychology or art therapy.

Racines Carrées, an artistic and cultural project incubator, has relaunched its activities in September 2021 and has therefore welcomed a completely new promotion of artists and cultural entrepreneurs. 

The group, which is currently pursuing the incubation programme established by Racines Carrées, is composed of about thirty participants for about a dozen projects emerging from different cities and regions of Morocco and belonging to various artistic disciplines (visual arts, circus, literature, dance, theatre…). 

Several of these projects are multidisciplinary, combining art and anthropology, psychology or art therapy.

The incubation programme took place as follows:

  • The pre-test phase (3 months): The project holders selected on the basis of their application dossier underwent a 5-day training session and two mentoring sessions with the members of the Racines Carrées team so they could finalise their dossiers and prepare the final presentation to the jury, which evaluated their work and selected the projects able to participate in the second incubation phase. 
  • The incubation phase (7 months): This stage consists of offering theoretical training to the selected incubatees at the rate of one training session per month (cultural action, law of cultural activities, administrative, financial and technical management of cultural projects, communication and relations with audiences, cultural environment, etc.). This phase also offers the incubates immersion internships to be carried out in local cultural structures or abroad, and the organisation of popular education workshops. 

At the end of this phase, the incubates will present their final projects to a second jury in September.

 

For more information on the incubated projects:  www.racines-carrees.org

To follow the Racines Carrées incubator on social networks:

Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

 

The parallel fight – Echoes of resistance

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day.

All CUSP (Culture Inclusive and Sustainable Peace)  partners proposed  a series of articles, where each partner shed light on:

– What a local culture of sustainable peace for women could be like and how this could be achieved;

– How women are celebrated locally and a local proverb about women or peace. 

 

CUSP is funded by the UKRI AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Collective Program (Network Plus).

 

Link to read the article: 

https://www.cuspnetwork.org/the-parallel-fight-echoes-of-resistance/

 

Témoigner pour agir : Open call for testimonies of migrants in North Africa

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The only effective way to advocate is to start from what you have experienced, to talk about yourself” (Franck Lepage) – and to share it with humanity.

Are you a migrant in Morocco, Tunisia or Algeria?

Do you want to share a story, an anecdote or an impression about your journey?

“Témoigner pour agir ” is the right place to do it.

“Témoigner pour agir” is a collection of authentic testimonials through which different voices are heard. Your testimonies will help us:
– Connect people to the human stories of migration;
– Understand what words like “integration”, “protection” and “welcome” really mean;
– Raise awareness of pressing issues related to migration and forced displacement while seeking to inform and shape policy at the national and international levels.

You can share your testimonies, in the form of your choice (video, audio, text, image, illustration, photo, etc.) via this group: www.facebook.com/groups/temoigner.agir;
or by sending an e-mail to: [email protected].

Your testimonials will be published on MADAR’s website (www.madar-network.org) and on its social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, SoundCloud, etc.).

“Témoigner pour agir” is a campaign designed by Racines aisbl, as part of the MADAR (Maghreb Action for Displacement and Rights) Network Plus project, which aims to improve the humanitarian protection of vulnerable displaced people in North Africa.

 

Training workshop for journalists and media on migration

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In the framework of the MADAR Network Plus project, Racines aisbl organized on March 15 and 16, 2022 in Casablanca a training and production workshop on migration and forced displacement for Moroccan media and journalists, in partnership with the Moroccan Network of Migration Journalists (RMJM).

“For a professional and pluralist press coverage”

Twenty participants from several Moroccan cities (Casablanca, Rabat, Fès, Beni Mellal, Kenitra, Tiflet, Tangier, Agadir and Tata) working in national and regional media and covering news related to migration and forced displacement attended the event and showed an exemplary involvement.

 

MADAR’s pre-call workshops

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Racines aisbl and Association des Migrations International (AMI) organized six regional pre-call workshops in six Moroccan regions (Casablanca-Settat, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima, Draa Tafilalet, Fès-Meknès, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Souss-Massa) between November and December 2020.

These workshops are spaces for exchange between civil society, practitioners, researchers, cultural actors, artists … working on issues of migration and forced displacement in Morocco. The aim was to identify the main priorities for action and research on migration, displacement and protection of vulnerable displaced persons in the context of conflict, at the local and regional levels, and to propose useful and effective solutions in the medium and long term.

In consultation with key migration actors in the six regions, several target audiences, issues and recommendations were identified.

 

Mapping of gender based violence in Morocco

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The mapping of gender-based violence in Morocco aims to illustrate the different actors working on the issue of gender-based violence according to their scope of intervention in the treatment of GBV (listening, reception & shelter, family mediation, psychological support, social support, legal support, administrative support, medical support, professional (re)integration, support for women’s initiatives, training, higher education, LGBTQIA+, research, observatory, advocacy, awareness raising, network, funding), as well as their regional distribution, (listening, sheltering, family mediation, psychological support, social support, legal support, administrative support, medical support, professional (re)integration, support to women who take initiatives, training, higher education, LGBTQIA+, research, observatory, advocacy, awareness, network, funding), their regional distribution, as well as their legal status (public institutions, universities, national and international NGOs, research laboratories ) etc.

The objectives of the mapping are to:
– Present an overview of the structures dealing with GBV in the twelve Moroccan regions
– Create a network that allows for the exchange and cooperation between the different actors working on GBV in Morocco
– Improve the current documentation on GBV in Morocco.
– Strengthen efforts to prevent and eradicate GBV through the networking of different actors involved in GBV in Morocco
– Direct future advocacy activities towards forms of violence that have been ignored for a long time.

To consult the mapping: www.gbvmorocco.org

Publication: Gender-based violence in Morocco

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The publication on “Gender-based violence in Morocco” was produced within the framework of the Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace (CUSP) project. 

The study aims to provide an overview of gender-based violence in Morocco (GBV). It is structured around the following axes: a literature review that analyzes the different forms of GBV that exist in Morocco, the national and international legal framework that governs them, an illustration of emblematic examples of GBV produced in Morocco, the evolution of the feminist and LGBTQIA+ movement in Morocco.

The study also contains the results of individual interviews with women’s rights activists, representatives of national and international NGOs, researchers and sociologists. The interviews illustrate the inadequacies of the legal system that governs gender-based violence in Morocco, the difficulties they face as GBV interveners, as well as recommendations to fight GBV in Morocco once and for all.

If you wish to cite this work, please use the following mention:
“Gender based violence in Morocco”, Rajaa Essaghyry & Mouad Meziaty, under the direction of Dounia Benslimane, Aadel Essaadani, and Dr. Mariangela Palladino, published within the framework of the Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace (CUSP) project, illustrations by Rajae Hammadi, December 2020.”

To read the publication in english: https://www.racines-aisbl.org/sites/default/files/gender_based_violence_in_morocco.pdf
To read the publication in french: https://www.racines-aisbl.org/sites/default/files/les_vbg_au_maroc_0.pdf
To read the publication in arabic:
https://www.racines-aisbl.org/sites/default/files/gbv_arabic.pdf

 

WAVE: Women Against a Violent Environment

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WAVE (Women Against a Violent Environment) is a project initiated by Racines aisbl.

WAVE aims to raise awareness about gender-based violence in Morocco through art, culture and popular culture, as well as research-action. WAVE uses art, culture and research as tools to raise awareness about gender-based violence in Morocco, in order to reach decision-makers, civil society organizations, artists and the public at large.

The project brings together three partners from Morocco (Racines aisbl), Egypt (ElMadina Arts) and the United Kingdom (Keele University), to produce:

  • An artistic residency gathering actors and directors from Morocco and Egypt, in order to raise awareness about the issue and create a forum play about GBV;

  • A forum play that will be performed in four cities in Morocco (Tiznit, Rabat, Al Hoceima and Casablanca);

  • A thematic workshop on awareness raising and advocacy techniques for structures and individuals working on GBV-related issues in Morocco: artists, cultural organizations and women’s rights defenders;

  • An academic research on forum theater in Morocco and its impact on social and political change in Morocco;

  • A documentary on the creation of a forum theater play as an advocacy and awareness-raising tool on issues related to GBV.