From Section: Culture and Development
Project "Bringing Congress Project southwest through art and media" contest earns Social Development Fund for the World Bank's Civil Society
June 6, 2008
The FDS 2008 has provided the Foundation with Taigüey U.S. $ 12,000 for the project "Bridging the Congress through multimedia art and southwest." The project aims to raise awareness and encourage reflection of the / as community, municipalities and municipal districts of the province of Barahona, on the work of congress and the lead role of pro-active citizens in the monitoring and management control Congress through the creation and presentation of a play and the development and facilitation of self-reflective materials in multimedia format and online. The project seeks to provide, implicitly, equal opportunities to access information to marginalized communities.
S expected results of the (s) activity (s) proposal (s) are
a. Creating a theatrical drama on the theme of the work of Congress and social monitoring to management that uses a theatrical language and cultural references adapted to the public goal.
b. Six theatrical presentations on the subject of the work of Congress and social monitoring to management, with a scenic language creative, playful, simple and straightforward.
c. Making seven forums for reflection on the topic covered in the play and its relationship with the local realities of the / as spectators.
d. Development of a multimedia material for self-reflection from theatrical and think tanks, accessible through the internet (youtube short style)
e. Training of community youth as multipliers of the reflection process from the application of multimedia material for reflection.
The project includes in its results the systematization of the experience through the development of multimedia material for self-reflection, in which video fragments collected in the play and impressions / viewers as participants in the forums.
This material is available through the internet and disseminated by electronic means (creation of a special section within the website Taigüey, distributed through mailing lists, virtual magazines and promote development, Son de Tambora, youtube etc.). Likewise, the project includes the training of young people in targeted communities as multipliers of the reflection process.
About the FSD:
The purpose of the Social Development Fund for the World Bank's Civil Society (formerly known as Small Grants Program), is to support activities whose primary objective is civic participation. For the FDS 2008 the World Bank convened with the support of the Chamber of Deputies through its Center for representation. The FDS's main objective is the incentive of the interaction of citizens, individually or in groups, to strengthen mechanisms for inclusion of vulnerable groups, the demand for accountability, and participation of a greater number of citizens in the public sector and their processes in order to expand and influence the development outputs.
In the press:
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