The workshop was attended by Dr. Antonio La Rocca and Ms. Francesca Nardi from the Italian Consulate, Mr. Foad Salem general director of the Governorate, Dr. Sameer Hazboun president of the Chamber of Commerce, Fr. Tony Zgenda director of the Salesian Centre, Eng. Nader Saca, Mr. Zoughbi Zoughbi, Mr. Khalil Shoukeh and Mrs. Duha Bandak from the municipal council, in addition to number of local organizations representatives and inhabitants and shopkeepers of the project's area.

Mr. George Sa'adeh, deputy mayor, welcomed the audience and spoke about the importance of developing the area and its facilities.  In addition, he stressed out to the need for community participation in order to best accomplish this project, and thanked all society institutions especially the CCHP and donor of the project.

 
Arch. Issam Juha, director of CCHP, pointed out that this project is one of many others implemented through the Italian Government and in cooperation with the Bethlehem Municipality, which aims at developing the area and enhance it commercially and touristy.  Moreover, he mentioned the importance of this project at this point especially after inscribing Bethlehem on the UNESCO's World Heritage List.

 
After which, Arch. Samia Murra from CCHP presented an explanation about the project, its goals, accomplishments up to now, and current problems and issues.  Whereas, Ms. Mays Salsa', director of PR and Awareness Dept. at CCHP, stressed on the importance of the community outreach activities and participation, in order to plan and design the project according to the needs to the stakeholders, and viewed some of the survey results CCHP is implementing.

At the end of the workshop, Bethlehem Municipality and CCHP opened the space for discussions and suggestions from the audience, who discussed certain issues and serious problems they are facing in the area.  The most important problems were the public hygiene of the area, bad implementation or planning of previous similar projects, lack of public toilets, drainage problems, and lack of parking for the public cars.  One of the recommendations of the audience is to pay more attention on better organizing these issues, study the traffic, and focus on the interests of the shopkeepers and services offices in the area.