Coalition Building and Coordinating
SHATIL provides professional services to over 30 coalitions and forums in Israel in a variety of areas including equality, social and human rights, education, environmental justice, and religious pluralism. Bringing together organizations to pursue a shared goal, these coalitions and forums create a pool of expertise, experience, skills, contacts and power that enable more effective activism towards a common end. SHATIL 's services range from initiating and coordinating coalitions to providing professional consulting and guidance in areas such as advocacy, media, and public relations.
A few examples of SHATIL coordinated coalitions include:
Ethiopian Women's Coalition to Address Domestic Violence- While Ethiopians comprise one percent of Israel's population, 25 percent of women killed by their husbands since 1996 have been Ethiopian. Many of the men go on to commit suicide. This shocking statistic is a symptom of a community in crisis. In response, the Shatil-coordinated coalition is working to reduce the incidence of domestic violence in the community by raising community awareness and advocating for policy changes that address the roots of the problem.
Coalition for the Struggle Against Unemployment - works t o place unemployment on the national public agenda, raise awareness regarding issues of social solidarity and responsibility for the unemployed, and strengthen the social security net in Israel. As a result of public pressure prompted by the SHATIL -led Unemployment Forum the government's plans to freeze unemployment benefits, cut benefits to the disabled and to families of fallen soldiers were reversed in the 2007 budget.
One Year After the War: A Press Conference of the North Star Forum to announce the final report of the Concord Research Center
The North Star Forum is a SHATIL-led coalition of organizations that came together in the aftermath of the War to monitor the rehabilitation of the North including governmental allocations, hazardous materials and their storage, psychological care for post trauma victims and to promote a new socio-economic agenda. The North Star Forum held four public hearings, one each in Haifa, Nazareth, Kiryat Shmona and Tzfat where residents testified to their experiences during the war and the failure of the government to take care of their needs. A final report of the hearing was compiled by the Concord Research Center for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law and went into the Winograd Commission's findings.
