Description
During 2015-2016, PASSIA, in partnership with the Open Regional Fund for the MENA region (ORF-MENA) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, implemented a project, entitled Building Strategies and Scenarios Towards Socioeconomic Development in East Jerusalem. It included a software-assisted development of various scenarios, strategies, and advocacy measures for Jerusalem’s future, the process of which is described in a separate publication. The goal was to identify ways and means that help Palestinian Jerusalemites remain steadfast inside the city and develop mechanisms as well as advocacy tools to improve their socioeconomic situation.
The outcome was the MUSTAQBALNA/OUR FUTURE!, which is described in detail in this paper. It is a local initiative of PASSIA, together with professionals of various fields, which follows an inclusive bottom-up approach that intends to provide proactive and operational strategic options to defy the fragmentation, isolation, and economic collapse in the city and return hope, justice and dignity to the lives of the Palestinians living there.
