The Samsung GFP Award for Impact is given to a
programme that demonstrates an ability to positively affect the beneficiary
community, stakeholders and other members of the wider community. It is
also awarded for successful local media coverage and local awareness of
programme, and for quantitative and qualitative reach of programmes.
The winners of the 2015 Impact Award were volunteers
from Ghana for the Catch Them Young Accra Programme. This Sport For Peace
Programme for Children targeted 40 school students to address issues of
bullying and poor communication between students of different ages and social
classes. In implementing the programme, volunteers got members of the
beneficiary community and stakeholders involved. This approach enabled the
wider community to learn about the programme, and start to benefit from the
programme activities. In addition, the programme received wide coverage with
features in the local media.
The award was presented by His Royal Highness Prince
Feisal Al Hussein, Founder and Chairman of Generations For Peace, and Fadi Awni
Abu Shamat, Corporate Marketing Director for Samsung Levant at a ceremony in
Jordan.
Countries like Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia and Palestine
also won awards for Innovation, Quality, and Sustainability respectively. These
four categories are also the key drivers of change for Generations For Peace.
The
fifth Generations For Peace Samsung Advanced Training concluded in Amman,
Jordan. The six day 2015 Samsung Advanced Training, during
which 39 volunteers from 10 countries gained new skills in facilitating
peacebuilding programmes in their communities, ended with the annual Awards
Dinner on 25 November at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan.
HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein congratulated this year’s
award winners, and the nearly 9000 volunteers who have been trained to
implement peacebuilding programmes in their communities around the world.
He also presented certificates in recognition of
Samsung Levant, supporter of GFP’s work since 2008; the Norwegian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, which supports GFP’s work throughout the MENA region; as well
as institutional partner Jordan Olympic Committee, telecommunications partner
Orange, logistics partner DHL, and beverage sponsor CocaCola Jordan.
Generations For Peace (GFP) is a Jordan-based global non-profit
organisation founded by HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein and Sarah Kabbani,
dedicated to sustainable peace building and conflict transformation through
sport, arts, advocacy, dialogue and empowerment.
By providing unique training and continuous support and mentoring
to volunteer leaders of youth, GFP empowers them to lead and cascade change in
their communities, promoting active tolerance and responsible citizenship and
working at the grass roots to address local issues of conflict and violence.
Different contexts include inter-tribal, inter-ethnic, and
inter-religious violence; gender inequality; post-conflict trauma response,
reconciliation and reintegration; exclusion of minorities including IDPs,
refugees and people with a disability; and challenges of integration in
multi-cultural societies. Conflict sensitivity, and the full participation and
empowerment of girls and women, are integrated into GFP’s approach.
GFP uses sport as an entry point to engage with children and
youth, and our carefully-facilitated sport-based games provide a vehicle for
integrated education and behaviour change. In addition to our sport-based
approaches, GFP has also developed arts, advocacy, dialogue, and empowerment
activities to support conflict transformation with children, youth and adults
in different contexts.
In the last seven years, we have trained and mentored more
than 8,500 volunteer leaders of youth in 50 countries and
territories in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. With our support,
their ongoing programmes address local issues of conflict and violence, and
have touched the lives of more than 216,000 children, youth and
adults.
GFP is ranked 32nd in the Top 500 NGOs in the World for
2015 by Global Geneva. The ranking
assesses non-governmental organisations according to innovation, impact, and
sustainability.
GFP is also the only peace-through-sport organisation officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee.