troolari posted:

volunteered for ypg man is my face going to be red if theyre found out to be imperial stooges

good luck!

Activities per geographic region were designed and overseen by respective grants management units (GMUs), program teams dedicated to creating and overseeing all activities in a region or a group of regions. The GMU teams consisted of program development officers, grants managers, procurement specialists, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team members, who all worked together to identify concepts, then develop, implement, and close - out grant activities. The integrated nature of the teams increased overall efficiency and allowed staff to build expertise in particular subject - matter and/or in geographical areas. An additional communications team, part of the national - level GMU, helped integrate outreach elements into activities, and also identified and implemented a wide range of grants to media organizations to produce and amplify coverage of partners, increasing project impact.

Apart from initial visits by SRP staff, no SRP employees were able to travel to Syria over the remainder of the program. The remote operation and management of the program, therefore, necessitated strong M&E systems to ensure effective programming and account for valuable resources. Identifying and verifying information was doubly complicated because security concerns sometimes limited standard M&E practices such as photo and video documentation, which in certain instances would have endangered program partners.
To bolster the program’s connections to Syria, SRP established a robust M&E and research team to provide accurate, real-time situational updates that informed and influenced the program’s direction and ability to adapt quickly. Feeding into this monitoring, the communications team ensured that reporting of key events, achievements, challenges, and opportunities reached program staff and OTI.

Remote implementation of the project required a strong network of trusted individuals and organizations to monitor program outputs and impacts. SRP engaged field personnel to assist with program development, monitor implementation, and track cross-border shipments into Syria and accompany them to their final locations. The field staff utilized multiple point verification, ongoing assessment and social media to monitor the impact of SRP project activities. By relying on the field staff as the program’s eyes and ears in Syria, the program retained close access to the areas in which it worked despite remote management. The field team, in addition to independent research organizations, also provided analysis of the larger impact of programming by conducting surveys of local residents, collecting quantitative and qualitative data. This data was supplemented by large-scale surveys that helped to track changes in attitudes and perceptions over time. Up-to-date information from the field aided in understanding whether project activities were achieving impact and how activities could be redesigned or retargeted in future efforts, as well as in verifying that program objectives were in line with the reality of what was possible inside Syria.

Edited by xipe (May 16, 2017 12:20:59)

@akhbar 11/ More slogans from Idlib:
- Woman as a whole is pudendum (like external genitals), even her nails
- Democracy is Shirk (polytheism) pic.twitter.com/EYvIvzAjmR

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) May 16, 2017

You don't exist. How are you tweeting? https://t.co/gwr5pLg7mT

— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) May 15, 2017

xipe posted:

the zionist regime just gave the man who took this picture of alqaeda & IDF a 14 year prison sentence for 'spying'/sharing them on his fb page.
he had already served 27 years in israeli jails for resisting occupation/'terrorism' :'(

Autoridades sionistas condenan al luchador sirio Sudqi al-Maqt a 14 años de prisión https://t.co/17moOXNpxI pic.twitter.com/h3s6EoWQLT

— Al Mayadeen Español (@almayadeen_es) May 17, 2017

xipe posted:

"Friends of Syria" paid $1+ billion to promote democracy in rebel syria and all they got were these slogans

@akhbar 11/ More slogans from Idlib:
- Woman as a whole is pudendum (like external genitals), even her nails
- Democracy is Shirk (polytheism) pic.twitter.com/EYvIvzAjmR

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) May 16, 2017

these guys seem pretty misogynist. just my o

xipe posted:

for all the stick YPG is getting from anti-imperialists for its collaboration/flirtation with US imperialism ... what about when the conflict in Syria finishes and a semi-autonomous YPG canton will be on the borders of key imperialist points of Turkey & KRG of iraq -- seems like having a base here could develop into going on the attack against them?

troolari posted:

karphead posted:

troolari posted:

volunteered for ypg man is my face going to be red if theyre found out to be imperial stooges

good luck except if not

im poor as hell so it all depends if im going to have to pay for the ride there. so probably not going to happen. im going to sound like a nigerian prince to them

just take out a loan & then pwn those banksters by getting blown up in a isis carbomb.

this guy tried .. and survived

Incredible 🇮🇶

Iraqi soldier drives his bulldozer into a Da'ish car bomb in #Mosul, forcing it to detonate, saving his unit. He survived. pic.twitter.com/eQpRBeBtkH

— Haidar Sumeri (@IraqiSecurity) May 17, 2017

my credit is fucked but I do enjoy the idea of blowing up in a carbomb. very palestinian.

animedad posted:

For every pro YPG post you people made you now have to take in 1 Syrian family to your family's giant suburban house

How many more pentagon funded bombing runs against the ypg is it going to take for those of your ilk to question their allegations, I wonder