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Bringing Local Sustainable Development To Scale
Thursday, 25 July 2024, 9:36 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
New article considers a key condition for effectively scaling local sustainable development for the benefit of the whole of society: creating participatory and empowering community movements first, driving then the dispersion of productive and appropriate technologies. More >>
Women Transform Their Horizons In Rural Morocco
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 10:19 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
A research study reveals the positive community impact of sustainable agricultural initiatives when preceded by women’s empowerment workshops, leading to participatory action, enhanced community well-being, and decentralization. Since 2016, the High ... More >>
The Final Declaration Of The International Conference On Islam And Climate Emergency
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 7:08 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
The following statement was issued during the International Conference on Islam and Climate Emergency, which was organized by the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) in partnership with the Faculty of Sharia at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Leave ... More >>
Transformational Development In Decentralized Renewable Energy In Morocco
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 6:32 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
By Yossef Ben-Meir Marrakech, Morocco What we know Renewable energy (RE) sources power transformational outcomes for community development projects from all sectors. To secure cross-cutting benefits, localized (or decentralized) RE initiatives need ... More >>
Creating and Codifying the Right to Be Remembered
Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 11:26 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
Yossef Ben-Meir, Emily Oksen, and Kristin O’Donoghue It is human nature to wish to be remembered. We have an innate desire to leave behind a legacy or some tangible proof of our existence that outlasts our fleeting time on Earth. Groups comprised ... More >>
Action Education: An Enduring Throwback For The Future
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 10:39 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
Social scientists across their different disciplines have shared an enduring observation. They have found that the people who apply methods in real settings to understand social life find more elucidation of the inquiry process than those who seriously ... More >>
Critical Outlooks Of The Community Approach To Global Development
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:27 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
Systems devised to organize local community participation in development emerged more than 70 years ago as a means to address poverty by involving people in designing their own initiatives and activities. Today, the people-driven approach to development ... More >>
Building A Definition Of Development
Friday, 24 July 2020, 9:41 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
The idea of development itself, its definition, and even the method we use for defining it, would be a good place to begin toward discovering its potential in our lives. We cannot rely on any single, or even ten, definitions. We need to look at the full ... More >>
Moroccan Agriculture and Rural Development
Tuesday, 21 January 2020, 8:27 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
In recent years, Morocco has put in place the right frameworks for mobilizing rural communities to advance the nation’s sustainable development goals, yet it falls woefully short when it comes to implementation. As someone who has been engaged in ... More >>
A Humanitarian Alternative to Migration
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 10:49 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
December 2018 is gearing up to be a pivotal month for migration on the world stage, and the epicentre is here, in Marrakech, Morocco, with two high-level fora taking place concerning development and migration. However, in order for the discussions ... More >>
A Paradigm Project for the Future – Location: Morocco
Thursday, 3 November 2016, 4:43 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
What makes for a great development project? Which qualities imbue an initiative with longevity and sustainability, enabling it to meet a whole range of interconnected material and emotional needs? Is there a single concept applicable to a specific ... More >>
Racial Reconciliation and Prosperity
Monday, 13 April 2015, 9:03 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
Racial Reconciliation and Prosperity Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir Much of my professional life involves applying democratic, participatory decision-making methods in order to catalyze and bring to fruition human development initiatives. We are fortunate ... More >>
Happy Tears: Human Connection Leading to Human Development
Wednesday, 25 March 2015, 2:47 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
We may know - perhaps even at first hand - of a gap in society whose presence causes pain for countless individuals. Here in Morocco, such a void - that of unrelenting poverty - exists, particularly in rural places (where poverty is typically most concentrated ... More >>
Morocco and South-South Unity
Tuesday, 23 December 2014, 5:30 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The reign of King Mohammed VI of Morocco is in the process of being framed by a number of progressive and productive pillars. Among these is one stand-out initiative focusing on building South-South cooperation between Morocco and its neighbors within Africa. More >>
A Radical Rethink: Aligning People’s and Donors’ Priorities
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 5:26 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
With the enormous diversity of social contexts where development interventions take place, one might imagine it would be extremely difficult to identify a single rule of thumb that enables the best possibility for project success, or sustainability. More >>
Development Visions from the Impoverished
Friday, 17 October 2014, 4:32 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The world’s most extreme poor are located primarily in rural places. Clearly, people’s proximity (or lack of) to city centers of decision-making, power and relative affluence is a determining factor in their life experience, alongside other conditions that ... More >>
Organic Agriculture: Will the ‘Meek’ Inherit the Earth?
Friday, 17 October 2014, 3:53 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The practice of organic agriculture combines traditional methods with today’s knowledge of health and environmental sustainability. In Morocco it is generally observed that the more remote the farming communities – and most often the more disadvantaged ... More >>
Decentralize for People’s Power in Arab Spring Countries
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 11:21 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
To sustainably advance human development and political stability, Arab Spring countries should decentralize to sub-national levels the resources necessary to catalyze and implement community development. Increasingly, Morocco is suggested as a model for ... More >>
Building World Peace, Locally
Monday, 22 September 2014, 3:19 pm | Yossef Ben-Meir
The condition of mutually enforcing bottom-up social development movements and enabling top-down laws, policies and treaties, assist ever more people and groups in coming-together to achieve the change they seek. More >>
Engaging Young People on Democracy
Friday, 12 September 2014, 11:45 am | Yossef Ben-Meir
UN International Day of Democracy -September 15th 2014 Engaging Young People on Democracy By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir 12 September 2014 More >>
