Rahmen für Kleinprojekte Ramallah



Contract partner: Diverse Träger Country: Palästinensische Gebiete Funding amount: € 70.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2020 End: 31.10.2020

Short Description:

Overall goal


The overall objective of the small project fund is to contribute to the overall objective of the ADC programme in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), namely to support the two state solution. The specific objectives are to strengthen institutional capacities for developing and implementing national policies, to contribute to women and youth empowerment and to strengthen democratic processes, in particular civil society.


Expected results


The small projects funded through this instrument will allow for the following results:

- The small projects complemented and supported the Austrian engagement in the priority areas;

- Piloting of new initiatives, in particular to advance peace and women empowerment

- Studies to support learning are conducted and shared

- Cooperation and networking among various national and international stakeholders is achieved


Target group / Beneficiaries


- Civil society organizations from oPt

- Palestinian authorities

- Universities and other academic institutions


Activities


The following measures will be taken to supplement the current programmes and priority areas in oPt:

- Strengthening Resilience building

- Technical assistance to public administration

- Women and youth empowerment

- Humanitarian – Development – Security nexus

- Sector or program-relevant studies

- Promoting innovation in particular in environment and climate change.


Context


Small Projects shall primarily complement measures which are in line with the ADC priority areas related to resilience building in AREA C and the Gaza Strip, women and youth empowerment as well as promoting the water-energy-agriculture/food security as well as the humanitarian-development-peace/security nexus.

The projects will be in line with the priorities of the Palestinian partners, as outlined in the National Development Plan, and the EU joint strategy.

project number 6508-00/2020
source of funding OEZA
sector Andere multisektorielle Maßnahmen
tied 0
modality Project-type interventions
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.