Newsletter

2013 JCI-AMDEC President Victor Marawu

In this issue: • JCI AMDEC President Victor

Marawu. • JCI President Chiara Milani. • JCI EVP Rania Haddad. • JCI-AMDEC objectives. • JCI Strategies into the future. • JCI-AMDEC since 2008. • JCI-AMDEC Executive. • JCI-AMDEC Growth and

Development Officers.

JCI-AMDEC 2013 Dear fellow members of Africa and the Middle East, 2013 has been a successful year for the JCI Africa and Middle East Development Council (JCI-AMDEC) team, albeit punctuated by many challenges. In line with our mandate, JCI-AMDEC worked very closely with National and Local Organisations in encouraging growth through establishment of new Local Organisations, as well as introducing JCI in completely new territories. To this end, contact was achieved in more than 10 countries, and new affiliations are on the cards at the 2013 JCI World Congress. Overall growth in membership is also expected for the Area. The addition to the JCI-AMDEC structure of Growth and Development Officers (GDOs) has proved to be of great value in the organisation’s function. While providing development opportunities for members, the GDOs’ function has enhanced efficiency. We encourage Past National Presidents who are still within the serving age to consider this position for continued service to the organisation. This is both a way to develop their carriers in JCI as well as achieve individual leadership development. For the first time, JCI-AMDEC held an extremely successful inaugural National Presidents Meeting in Accra, Ghana. This experience gave every officer of the Area a good starting point to the year, with clarity on strategy and objectives, as well as the very critical networking among themselves. The year was also heavy for the Area with the unfortunate loss of three of our distinguished members due to road accidents. We will always remember JCI Nigeria National President Oyebanjo Okunuga, JCI Nigeria Executive Vice President Nnadiekwe Agaptus, JCI Zimbabwe National President's Assistant Lloyd Ngwenya as well as JCI Burkina Faso National President Gaston Palenfo. I end by encouraging JCI Africa and Middle East members to keep working with JCI-AMDEC in pursuing Growth and Development. Without these two pillars, our impact will cease to have the desired effect in our communities. I wish you all a safe journey to Rio, and look forward to seeing you. We have work to do. As the 2013 JCI-AMDEC team, our work continues beyond the World Congress, and I count on your support as we persistently work towards growth in our Area. Victor Marawu 2013 JCI-AMDEC President

 

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JCI-AMDEC exists: To assist the JCI Directors and

elected Officers to the area. To identify areas where the JCI

movement can be furthered and or introduced.

To co-ordinate inter National Organizations activities to achieve

specific targets (growth & development).

To exchange information, skills and experience between National

Organizations in the Area. To assist National Organizations in

training and development. To identify and implement projects to further the organization in the Area

To be the voice of the Area National Organisations within the JCI

structures

   

 

2013 JCI-AMDEC Newsletter

2013 JCI President Chiara Milani

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Dear fellow JCI Members of Africa and Middle East, It gives me great pleasure to address you in this inaugural JCI-Africa and Middle East Development Council (AMDEC) Newsletter. I trust you're impacting your communities positively, and that you are on course with your plans. 2013 has been, and still is a challenging year in many respects. With economic recession continuing to adversely affect many parts of the world, and socio-political instability becoming more common, our challenges today call for new ways of doing things. There is need to understand that as citizens of the world, we shape our own destiny. Because of JCI's unbreakable philosophy of Active Citizenship, which is the solution of all times to our societal challenges, our influence is needed now more than ever in creating positive change around us. Therefore, for us to saturate Africa and Middle East with our culture, we need to create more impact and if we will create more impact for sure more of the young people in this area will join JCI. According to the new Strategic Planning Committee recommendations, growth and development will be a consequence of our impact. I believe we all know what challenges there are in our communities. I certainly believe we know what needs to be done to counter those challenges. Because we have an approach to creating impact through the JCI Active Citizen framework I know that all that is left is for us to do what we have to do. We need to take action. We need to do the best we can. If every member commit to action, then every one of us will certainly shine and in the process attract more young people to join the action and be Active Citizens in the light of ISR, Individual Social Responsibility. We look forward to the 2013 JCI AMDEC team lead by President Victor Marawu achieving or surpassing set growth targets, and for this to happen we count on your continued hard work and cooperation to create even more positive impact.

As I address you, I'm mindful of the very unfortunate experiences the JCI family have encountered this year through loss of lives of our fellow dear members, in particular JCI Nigeria National President Oyebanjo Okunuga, JCI Nigeria Executive Vice President Nnadiekwe Agaptus, JCI Zimbabwe National President's Assistant Lloyd Ngwenya as well as JCI Burkina Faso National President Gaston Palenfo. That all these young men lost their dear lives while servicing is something to inspire us all. My thoughts are with their families.

Last but not the least, I look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible in Rio for the 2013 JCI Congress. I promise you, this will be a Congress to remember!

Meanwhile, continue to DARE TO ACT!!!

Chiara Milani 2013 JCI President

 

Impact. Im-pact / impakt/ Impact is change. Impact is action. Change for the future. Action for society. Impact for the better. Impact created by engaged active citizens at all levels of society. Impact is the result of collective action.

Motivate. Mo-ti-vate \ mo ̄-t-va ̄t\ Motivate is empowerment. Motivate is passion. Empowerment for young people. Passion for stronger communities. Motivate to transform the world. Motivation propelled toward the creation of positive change. Motivate active citizens to step up to the challenge.  Invest. In-vest \in-vest\ Invest is support. Invest is responsibility. Support for advancing our goals. Responsibility for financial stability. Invest in the ideas and efforts of active citizens. Investment that sustains progress. Invest in the dream to unite for a better world.  Collaborate. Col-lab-o-rate \ke-la-b -ra ̄t\ Collaborate is unite. Collaborate is partnerships. Unite for common goals. Partner for community development. Collaborate for mutual impact. Collaboration focused on sharing resources, expertise, knowledge, experience and power. Collaborate to engage like-minded active citizens across all sectors of society.  Connect. Con-nect \k-nekt\ Connect is link. Connect is network. Link to share tools. Network for stronger support. Connect people, communities and society. Connection leads to sharing ideas, actions and results. Connect to unite the global grassroots movement.  

JCI Strategies Into the future

2013 JCI EVP Rania Haddad

JCI-AMDEC since 2008

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Dear fellow members of Africa and the Middle East, It is true that we create impact in our communities through the sustainable projects that we work on. However, without you, these projects cannot be implemented. That is why the most important JCI asset is the members themselves. And, to ensure the continuity of our organization, we need to maintain our existing members and establish new JCI National Organizations in countries that do not have one, which is exactly what the Africa and Middle East Development Council (AMDEC) team are responsible for. Under the outstanding leadership of AMDEC President Victor Marawu from JCI Zimbabwe, the AMDEC team achieved several firsts this year: • Creating the positions of AMDEC Growth Development Officers who report to

the AMDEC Councilors and help them in creating new JCI National Organizations.

• Cancelling the five AMDEC Meetings that we used to conduct annually at the beginning of the year and funding the first National Presidents Meeting of Africa and the Middle East, which was successfully hosted by JCI Ghana on February 7 - 9 earlier this year.

• Providing funds for JCI Trainers from Africa and the Middle East to conduct JCI Achieve and JCI Impact in some of the JCI National Organizations from our area that needed them like JCI Burkina Faso, JCI Lesotho, and JCI Tunisia. More JCI courses will be conducted in other National Organizations from our area later on this year.

• Creating this informative AMDEC Newsletter.

Congratulations to our dynamic AMDEC team on its achievements, and I look forward to celebrating with you newly potentially, provisionally, and fully affiliated JCI National Organizations during our JCI World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November. Keep up the great work! Rania Haddad 2013 JCI Executive Vice President for Africa and the Middle East

 

2008 President : Roland Kwemain

(Cameroon) Regional Meetings: Grand Bassam (Côte d’Ivoire), Rabat (Morocco), Kigali (Rwanda), Antananarivo

(Madagascar), Pointe Noire (Congo) with more than 450 delegates.

JCI Leadership Academy in Ouaga (Burkina Faso): 45 participants

New National Organizations: Chad, Mozambique, UAE

2009 President : Rami Majzoub

(Lebanon) Regional Meetings : Conakry

(Guinea), Aleppo (Syria), Johannesburg (South

Africa),Yaoundé (Cameroon), Kigali (Rwanda) with 478 delegates. JCI Leadership Academy in

Yamoussoukro (Cote dÍvoire): 37 participants

New National Organizations: Lesotho

2010 President: Victorien Tougouma

(Burkina Faso) Regional Meetings: Beirut

(Lebanon), Kigali (Rwanda), Dodowa (Ghana), Lambarene

(Gabon), Antananarivo (Madagascar) with 447 delegates JCI Leadership Academy in Abuja

(Nigeria): 28 participants New National Organizations: Egypt,

Jordan, Sierra Leone

 

 

 

2013 JCI-AMDEC Executive

 

   Victor Marawu

(Zimbabwe) 2013 JCI-AMDEC

President

Materne K. G. Bossou (Togo)

JCI-AMDEC Secretary General & Treasurer

Rania Haddad (Lebanon)

2013 JCI EVP for Africa & Middle East

         

       

 

Kouakou Alexis Kouassi (Cote

D’Ivoir) 2013 JCI-AMDEC

Imm. Past President

Tshepo Thlaku (South Africa)

2013 JCI-AMDEC South Councilor

Shadi Izmiqna (Jordan)

2013 JCI-AMDEC North Councilor

Spicer Munjeri (Zimbabwe)

2013 JCI-AMDEC East Councilor

Kouakou Landry Koffi (Cote D’Ivoir) 2013 JCI-AMDEC

West & Central Councilor

Asmaa Benslimane (Morocco)

2013 JCI Vice President

Abraham Nana Kow Acquaye (Ghana)

2013 JCI Vice President

Maiga Adiaratou Thiam (Mali) 2013 JCI Vice

President

Volkan Ozturk (Turkey)

2013 JCI Vice President

2011 President: Paschal Dike

(Nigeria) Regional Meetings: Lome (Togo),

Brazzaville (Congo), Harare (Zimbabwe), Mohamedia (Morocco)

with 336 delegates JCI Leadership Academy in Bamako

(Mali): 46 participants. New National Organizations: Algeria,

Chad, DR Congo, Gambia

2012 President: Alexis Kouakou Kouassi

(JCI Côte d’Ivoire) Regional Meetings: Cotonou (Benin), Kigali (Rwanda), Maseru (Lesotho),

Douala (Cameroon), Bozerte (Tunisia) with 378 delegates.

JCI Leadership Academy in Casablanca (Morocco): 41

participants. New National Organizations: Zambia

From 2008 and 2012, JCI-AMDEC has paid every year

an average of $17,000 for JCI-AMDEC Regional Meetings

and JCI Leadership Academy for Africa and the Middle East. In 2012, $7,000 was added to the expenses to support new

and challenged National Organizations (Chad,

Comoros, DR Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Lesotho and

Mauritius).    

JCI-AMDEC since 2008 (cont.)

2013 JCI-AMDEC Growth and Development Officers William Nyakudya (Zimbabwe) JCI-AMDEC East Lehlohonolo Chefa (Lesotho) JCI-AMDEC South

Hemraj Pallut (Mauritius) JCI-AMDEC South 4