The Office of the Assistant to the AAUP President for Community Affairs organized a workshop entitled “Management of Local Authorities at Times of Crises and Disasters for the Emergency Committee in Jenin Governorate,” with the presence of the Director of Local Government in Jenin, and the heads of municipalities and village councils in the governorate.
The workshop was inaugurated by the Assistant to the President of the University for Community Affairs, Dr. Laila Herzallah, with a speech in which she welcomed the attendees. She indicated that the aim of organizing the workshop is to develop the emergency committee’s strategies, raise the level of awareness, and know the obstacles that cause crises within municipalities for the sake of overcoming them and providing all services to the local community. She continued explaining that this workshop is being held for the sake of strengthening true partnership and cooperation with the local community, and opening channels of communication and communication with all components of this community, especially in the current circumstances that the country is going through.
Professor Dr. Ayman Youssef, a specialist in crisis management, gave a lecture in which he touched on the concept of crises and their causes, the strategy for dealing with them, and developing local government plans for crisis management.
