2-Enhance resilience of damaged or affected women-led enterprises through Cash for Resilience mechanism. Each woman will receive an in-kind grant (for purchasing production inputs to restore their production capacity), this will be also an important entry point to enhance resilience of family farming livelihoods and resilience of local food system as well.

3-Enhance and support 25  Survivors’ Community-Led Responses in most vulnerable, remote and damaged agricultural communities in crisis, in cooperation with already existed Community Based Organizations and relevant local committees. GUPAP will use SCLR and Participatory Action & Learning in Crisis (PALC) approaches 

Jinwar was built in the course of the revolutionary changes in North and East Syria. In a situation of war and crisis the aim was to develop an alternative rooted in the communal values and self-administration. Relying on Kurdish Women’s Movement experiences and people’s self-organization in North and East Syria. It integrates the values of the Women’s Revolution that started in 2012: women’s liberation, cooperative economy, free education, sustainable approach to health care, recovering local knowledges, assembly and council self-organizing, gathering different cultural backgrounds, ecological and sustainable approach in food, energy and all aspects, human relations based on ecological and comradeship values. 

In the sense of taking the organizing of all aspects in life back in the hands of society, Jineolojî proposes a new perspective to science and knowledge. Popular education, research on women’s history, building practical knowledge, organizing autonomously as women, gathering experiences that are the base of social transformation. Jinwar, the women’s village, is a practical example of putting jineolojî in practice. As we wrote on a separate post, all aspects of life in Jinwar are communally organized. 

The idea of Democratic Confederalism is not only organizing people’s sovereignty but also defending it against the systems of domination, such as patriarchy, capitalism and colonization. And simultaneously defending the structures that are being built from the attacks of the occupying State, the Turkish State, and the Syrian regime, as well as from other occupying and genocidal forces, like Daesh.  

The elements of Democratic Confederalism can be found in many different places of the world. What we find interesting about Democratic Confederalism is that is gives us a key on how to integrate the different parts of the struggle to a common strategy. Internationalism, for example, is another important element of it, because what Democratic Confederalism actually means is to unite struggles and articulate them altogether in building alternatives.  

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