Basic Organization Profile

Name of organization Union of Agricultural Work Committees

Registration # with MoI RA-222220-A
Year of foundation 1986
Address of HQ Al-Bireh, Sateh Marhaba, Next to Trust Insurance
Company, Seida Building, Ground Floor
Ramallah
Head of Organization Name: Fuad Abusaif
Title: General Director
Mobile: 00970599375445
E-mail: fuad@uawc-pal.org
Point of Contact Name: Hiba Al-Jbeihi
Title: Fundraising Officer
Mobile: 00970595941363
E-mail: hiba@uawc-pal.org
Organization’s Vision and Mission
UAWC’s Mission:
A progressive civil society organization, contributing to the agricultural sector’s development, through
empowering farmer’s steadfastness and sovereignty over their resources within a sustainable community-
based liberation developmental framework.

UAWC’s Vision:
A free Palestinian farmer, committed to her/his national, socio-economic and cultural rights, a believer in
democratic practices, within a food secured society with sovereignty over its resources.

Location of offices in Palestine: - Ramallah

- Hebron
- Nablus
- Gaza
Number of full-time staff in Palestine: 90
Annual Budget (USD): 2018: $7,130,883
2017: $ 6,220,769
2016: $ 7,046,838
Please use exchange rate of 1USD = 3.5 ILS for
conversion.
Main sources of funds and donors: - The Netherlands Representative Office
- Medico International
- Grassroots International
- NPA (Norwegian’s People Aid)
- Experts Solidaires

Experience in similar fields

Funding Amount
Project Title Donor Year
(USD)
1. Socialist Youth Cooperative: Promotion of Grassroots 2018-2020 60,000
International
socialist economic alternative -Tubas, Qalqilia,
Hebron, Ramallah

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 2. Strengthening of Sustainable Livelihoods in the GIZ 2019-2020 99,316.72
Rural Areas of the Southern Districts of West
Bank
3. promote and develop the ability of uneducated GIZ 2018 56,485
youth to choose the future vocational  by
raising awareness of the vocational and
agricultural work
4. Support Economic growth through optimized FAO 2018-2019 $92,000
agricultural value chain in the west bank
5. Support resilience of unemployed women in FDHT 2019 23,000
Fasayel village through building their capacity in
sewing
6. improving youth income and promoting food Zaragoza/ 2018 19,070
sovereignty with a gender approach in Mundubat
communities of Ramallah, Palestine
7. Protecting vulnerable Palestinian agriculture- Islamic 2017-2019 $800,000
based livelihoods in Southern West-Bank by Development
sustaining and developing agricultural Bank
production capacity vital for food security
within a commercial and ecological perspective
8. Enhance resilience and maintain livelihoods of ACF 2017-2018 43,000
Palestinians food insecure households affected
by the conflict, Palestine”
9. The Deprived families Economic UNDP 2013-2015 $810,567
2016-2018
Empowerment Programme (DEEP)- two phases each
Third phase : Palestinian youth economic
empowerment project ( Deep )
10. Transitioning from Relief to Sustainable Care 2013-2016 8 million
Livelihoods (R2S): Strengthening Food Security International
in West Bank and Gaza
Food Security-Livelihoods Sector

Attached UAWC’s annual report for 2018.

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 Project Concept

Proposed Project Title Promoting the Role of Agricultural Sector as a Catalyst for Youth and adolescents Economic
Empowerment
Objectives
A brief description of the proposed objectives of the project.
The overall goal:

To secure a decent livelihood for young people who have dropped out of school, unemployed and live in poverty in the most conflict-affected

areas

Specific objectives:

1. Provide 89 poor young people with the equipment/skills needed to pursue a livelihood within their projects and trainings.

2. To cooperate in decreasing the percentage of unemployment and sense of hopeless among youths.

3. To enhance the Palestinian food sufficiency and Economic independence from the Israeli part

4. To revive the concept of working on lands and in agricultural sector among youths.

5. To secure the economic empowerment of school dropouts.

6. To challenge gender inequity in disadvantaged communities, by empowering poor women and enable them to achieve a better quality of

life for themselves and their families.

Problem Analysis
President Trump’s administration has posed a great challenge to the Palestinian people and exacerbated their tragic situation. Settlements

have multiplied by 30%, and the impact has been the greatest in the Qalqilya Governorate where more than 30,000 dunums have been

confiscated. The Deal of the Century’s effect has been worst in the Jordan Valley and Tubas (Northern Valley) governorates, as the occupation

seeks to annex this region to “Israel”.

These factors, combined with the Palestinian people’s loss of hope and prospects, the occupation’s economic impact, and the worsening

unemployment rates, have created a generation of adolescents and young adults without hope. According to the Palestinian Central Statistics

report, issued on 2/13/2020, the number of unemployed persons aged 15 years and over reached 343,800 in Palestine during 2019, of whom

73,000 thousand were hopeless. A UNICEF report states that the percentage of school dropouts by age 15 is nearly 22% for boys and 7% for

girls. In the Jordan Valley and Tubas governorates alone, this percentage reached 10%, according to a report issued by the Al-Marsad

organization for 2019.

The Palestinian economy suffers from total dependence on Israel, preventing government intervention to solve the Palestinian people’s

economic and living problems. Nevertheless, the Palestinian government has announced with its National Policy Agenda the intention to

achieve economic independence from Israel and activate the agricultural sector’s role in achieving economic independence and self-

sufficiency (page 46).

This project will work with 68 school dropouts between the ages of 10 and 17 years; Half will be female and will receive vocational training to

develop their skills and provide them with job opportunities and a decent living after they reach the legal working age of 18. The vocational

training will include specialized agricultural training, carpentry, blacksmithing, electricity, car maintenance, painting, sewing, beautification,

and graphic design, based on the students’ own interest and market needs. In addition, Twenty-one young unemployed people between the

ages of 18-24 years will be supported in economic empowerment projects compatible with the Ministry of Agriculture’s agricultural cluster

plans, through cultivating crops that achieve self-sufficiency, including bananas, citrus fruits, medicinal plants, Al-Howirna, pumpkins, guava,

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pomegranates, garlic, pepper, and seed grapes, etc.
Beneficiaries
The target group of the project is 89 young people (half of them are female). All of whom:

- Belong to the most underprivileged strata of society and conflict-affected regions of the West Bank, Jordan Valley and Tubas governorate

who under the threat of Israeli plan of annexation, and Qalqilia governorate, the most affected governorate from Israeli settlement

expansion.

- UAWC will work together with its agricultural committees, village councils and Agricultural directorates to select beneficiaries from the most

vulnerable and poor families to generate the long list of the suitable beneficiaries.

- Based on the agricultural committees and Agricultural directorates nomination, UAWC will conduct field visits to the individual beneficiary

to make sure of their urgent needs, vulnerability, and priorities in comparison of others to generate the list of beneficiaries.
Target Area
As elaborated in details in problem analysis section, the project target areas are the Jordan Valley and Tubas governorate and Qalqilia
governorate.
Activities and Expected Outcomes
1) Beneficiary selection: UAWC will adopt the above-mentioned method to select the two groups of beneficiaries of the two ages category.

2) Awareness and Accountability: UAWC's staff will conduct an introduction workshop for the targeted beneficiaries to introduce them to the

project activities, outputs and outcomes as well as to the quality standards of these activities. Thus, the affected persons will be participated in

monitoring and evaluation of the project activities and will participate in tracking project activities, outputs, outcomes and compare them to

the quality standards required within the project.

3)Needs assessment survey: UAWC will conduct a needs assessment survey to investigate the interests, needs, and skills of the beneficiaries.

The outcomes of the survey will be matched against market demands analysis to ensure that the vocational trainings for group 1 those who

aged 10-17 years, and the agricultural projects for group 2 those who aged 18-24 years meets market demands.

4) Vocational Trainings and implementation of projects: based on the results of the needs assessment and market demand analysis, the first

group will be provided with the vocational trainings, and the second group will be provided with the required production inputs and

machinery they need to pursue a livelihood. To enhance the beneficiaries'; commitment, interest, and sense of ownership, each beneficiary is

required to find a suitable place to set up their project.

4) Building Capacities: UAWC will recruit specialists to work with the targeted beneficiaries to develop trainings specialized for the types of the

projects implemented for group 2 and other trainings on administrative, management of projects. User-friendly training booklets will be

developed and distributed to the targeted group at the time of training. All beneficiaries will receive follow up in the 15 hours’ field training

and coaching distributed on 3 days.

5) Technical and operational follow-ups: UAWC's staff will continue working with the targeted beneficiaries and will help in any

administrative, operational, and technical issues raised to ensure the future sustainability of the project and follow-up beyond the lifetime of

the project.
Coordination and Partnerships
In designing and writing this project, contacts were made with the directorates of agriculture in the targeted governorates to find out their
recommendations and suggestions regarding the needed priority agricultural crops to achieve self-sufficiency and economic independence,
according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s cluster plan and in line with the National Policy Agenda. During the implementation phase, the
Ministry of Agriculture, the directorates of agriculture, the agricultural committees, and the village councils will be involved in selecting the
beneficiaries and discussing their interests and their compatibility with the market and national needs.
Sustainability
In particular, the project will achieve sustainability through:

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Local partnership: this project builds on UAWC’s experience of having established more than 8,000 small income-generation projects and its

experience in providing more than 1000 vocational trainings. Furthermore, UAWC has a continuing commitment to ensure the future

sustainability of the project and follow-up beyond the lifetime of the project.

Community ownership: the provision of income-generation projects and vocational trainings will give the beneficiaries a sustainable source of

income. Furthermore, the participation of beneficiaries in defining the nature of the trainings and projects and working site helps strengthen

their involvement at a local level and ensures that their priorities are considered. The vision of the project is to support them in developing

sustainable models for income-generation so that they can cover their running costs in the long run.

Market-driven: the project is designed based on the demands of the local market to ensure that the products developed by the beneficiaries

are in demand and will continue to bring in a profit.

Dissemination of knowledge: the project includes building the sustainable capacities of the beneficiaries, and they will be given the chance to
practice and share the skills they have gained
Expected Budget
Unit

# Description Unit Quant. Cost Total cost

A) Provision of Vocational trainings

A.1 extensive one year vocational trainings individual 68 2,000 136,000

Subtotal cost 136,000

B) Implementation of projects

allocation of fund to establish various agricultural

B.1 project 21 7000 147,000
income-generation projects

subtotal Cost 147,000

C) 15 hours training/ 3 days for each project

C.1 Trainer cost of hours*# of hours 750 21 15750

C.2 Training Booklet (4 booklet for each project) booklet 10 84 840

C.3 Hospitality and Lunch day/project 45 21 945

C.4 Stationary lump sum 500 500

Subtotal cost 18,035

D) Direct personal cost

D.1 Local Staff (Administrative coordinator) month 12 1800 21600

D.2 Local Staff (Technical coordinator) month 12 1700 20400

D.3 Accountant (50%) month 12 750 9000

D.4 Procurement Officer (50%) month 12 750 9000

D.5 Communications month 12 300 3600

D.6 Local Travel month 12 500 6000

Subtotal cost 69,600

Total Cost of activities 370,635

Admin cost 7% 25,944.45

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Total cost 396,579.45