Annual Report 2011
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Agricultural Development Association جمعية التنمية الزراعية (PARC) )اإلغاثة الزراعية( جمعية التنمية الزراعية Annual Report التقرير السنوي 2011 2011 2011 Agricultural Development Association Development Agricultural Agricultural Development Association (PARC) Annual Report 2011 West Bank P.O.Box: 25128 Shu’fat Jerusalem Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.pal-arc.org Who We Are www.parc.ps The Agricultural Development Association (PARC) is a leading Palestinian non-profit, non-governmental organization involved in rural development and women’s empowerment. PARC provides advice, awareness support, services, and special Gaza consultancies for individuals, groups, and institutions involved P.O.Box: 225 Gaza in similar domains. PARC relies on the broad and efficient Email: [email protected] participation of its beneficiaries, and moreover on developing Email: [email protected] the qualifications of its experts to better benefit and develop a democratic Palestinian civil society. Branch Tel Fax General Goal To Contribute in Achieving Sustainable And Integrated Rural Head Office – Ramallah 02 2963840 02 2963850 Development Head Office – Gaza 08 2805040 /1/2 08 2805039 Middle Branch – Ramallah 02 2952650 02 2952650 A Policy of Quality We do what we say and ensure the quality of our work Jerusalem Office 02 5833818 02 5831898 Jericho Office 02 2327296 02 2327298 A policy of quality is identified at PARC as the adherence by Salfit Office 09 2515220 09 2515220 management and staff to providing technically distinguished development services (In the approach and professional sense) North Branch – Al -Zababdeh 04 2510461/2 04 2520461 Such services spring from the needs and expectations of the Nablus Office 09 2380912 09 2380912 marginalized rural communities extending from their living humanitarian, and environmental prospects and in line with best Tulkarem Office 09 2675944 09 2675944 utilization of available resources. PARC seeks to provide services Azzoun Office 09 2900874 09 2900874 through a permanent and developed system of administration South Branch – Hebron 02 2294585 02 2290288 focusing on staff, and maintaining team and voluntary spirit. Bethlehem Office 02 2770812 02 2750388 Contents Board of Directors Name Location Position I. An Overview of the Palestinian Situation over the Year 2011 ....................... 7 Rawya al – Shawwa Gaza President I.1 Political Situation ........................................................................................................ 7 Sahab Shaheen Nablus Vice President I.2 Economic Situation ..................................................................................................... 9 Issam abu al – hajj Ramallah Treasurer I.3 Social Situation .........................................................................................................10 Jamal ed – Dadah Gaza Vice Treasurer I.4 Local Non-Governmental Organizations ...............................................................10 Abed al – Razeq Salameh Gaza Secretary I.5 Agricultural Situation ...............................................................................................11 Mohammad Brigheith Ramallah Member II. Directions for 2012 .........................................................................................13 Dawoud Ereiqat Jericho Member III. Executive Summary ....................................................................................... 15 A’hed Ghanem Tulkarem Member IV. Target Locations and Beneficiary Groups ....................................................31 Fadwa (Abla) Nasser Jerusalem Member IV.1 Target Locations .....................................................................................................31 Maha Al –Masri Gaza Member IV.2 Targeted Beneficiaries ............................................................................................33 Sa’ed Younes Ramallah Member V. Implementation Performance and Effectiveness......................................... 39 Hatem Al – Shanti Gaza Member V.1 Implementation Performance ................................................................................39 Ghassan Madieh Hebron Member V.2 Achievements of the Indicators .............................................................................46 VI. Implementation Environment and Arrangements .................................... 49 Supervision Committee VI.1 Project Environment ..............................................................................................49 VI.1.1 Project Macro-Environment ...............................................................................49 Name Location VI.1.2 Project Meso-Environment.................................................................................51 Sami Dawoud Nablus VI.1.3 Main Problems Encountered During the Implementation Period .................54 Ameera Abu – Shosheh Jericho VI.2 Progress Towards Stakeholders’ Participation ...................................................58 Adel Zahran Nablus VI.2.1 Main Stakeholder level .......................................................................................58 Imad Abu Daieh Gaza VI.2.2 Secondary Stakeholders Level ...........................................................................60 Amal Siam Gaza VI.3 Implementation Arrangements ............................................................................61 VI.3.1 Strengths and Weaknesses of Implementation Strategy ...............................61 VI.3.2 Organizational and Implementation Procedures ...........................................64 VI.3.3 Success and Constraints in the use of Technology (ies) ..................................65 VI.4 Monitoring Arrangements ....................................................................................67 VII. Progress towards Sustainability ................................................................. 69 Vii.1 Ownership by Beneficiaries .................................................................................69 Vii.2 Appropriate Technology ......................................................................................70 Vii.3 Respect of Socio-Cultural Norms and Attitudes ................................................72 Vii.4 Gender Issues ........................................................................................................73 I. An Overview of the Palestinian Vii.5 Institutional and Management Capacity ..........................................................73 Situation over the Year 2011 Vii.6 Economic and Financial Viability........................................................................74 Vii.7 Environmental Protection ....................................................................................76 VIII. Partnerships and Alliances ......................................................................... 81 Viii.1 Partnerships with NGOs ......................................................................................81 Viii.2 Partnerships with Governmental Institutions and ( Semi Governmental Insti- The Palestinian scene (political, economical and social conditions) in 2011 didn’t witness tutions ) ...........................................................................................................................83 significant changes from that of 2010 and the main characterizing features remained Viii.3 Relationships with Institutions Emerging from Parc ........................................84 almost the same in spite of the expectations of real changes that arose as inspirations Viii.4 Relationships with Universities & Academic Institutions .................................85 of what has been called by great number of observers as the Arabs Spring. More details can be seen in the following paragraphs. Viii.5 The Private Sector ................................................................................................85 IX. Annexes ......................................................................................................... 87 IX.1 List of Parc’s Ongoing Projects Grants in 2011 ....................................................87 I.1 Political Situation IX.2 Summary of Achievments of the 4 Years Plan (2008-2011) ...............................91 The political situation during 2011, at local and external levels, remains very fragile, and volatile. The faltering peace process and Israeli insistence to continue settlements expansion and keeping Gaza Strip under siege as well as the continuation of division between PA in Ramallah and Hamas in Gaza have enormously affected everything. In this respect we can mention the following: The political situation remained during the year 2011, at both at the local and external levels, characterized by fragility and instability. The stalled peace process and Israel’s determination and insistence on moving forward with settlement expansion and keeping Gaza under siege, In addition to the continuing Division; has had a major impact on the whole situation. In this regard we can refer to the following: 8 Annual Report 2011 I. An Overview of the Palestinian Situation over the Year 2011 9 1. Continuation of Israeli siege on Gaza Strip. Some loosening of the siege has I.2 Economic Situation been witnessed from the side of Israeli side, due to continuous International The rise in the GNP for 2011 in the West Bank was lower than announced at the pressure, in comparison with the situation in 2010. Also, considerable improve- beginning of the year and it was around 5.7% compared with