Palestinian Center for Communication and Development Strategies (PCCDS)

PCCDS uses mostly interpersonal communication - through face-to-face encounters as part of a strategy that can be articulated in these major streams:

• Non-governmental organisation (NGO) capacity building - This programme intends to build the capacities of NGOs in rural villages adjacent to the Apartheid Wall, refugee camps, and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Also, it works with institutions addressing the issues of young people and women in order to encourage the abilities of their staffs and volunteers to manage their institutions.
• The development programme - This programme aims to establish small income-generating projects to enable young people and women in the most marginalised and economically poorest Palestinian villages adjacent to the Apartheid Wall, Bedouin settlements, Palestinian refugee camps, and disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the cities of West Bank to increase their family income and to protect themselves from destitution and poverty.
• Children's programme, which includes a child rights protection project, efforts to strengthen the role of the mother in dealing with the child in time of crisis, and the establishment of a school network for child rights. The latter project has the goal of reducing child labour, the incidence of children dropping out school, and early marriage for women.
• Youth and democracy - This programme area involves educating young people in the area of democracy and promoting the concept of dialogue and respect for differences of opinion through projects such as "youth project moving", "civic education project", "democracy guardians project", "network of youth volunteers project", "youth clubs project", "enable the youth of peace, forgiveness, coexistence project", and "project of civilizations' dialogue".
• Women's programme - This programme aims to strengthen the role of women in society through the "no to violence against women project", "empowerment of women in politics project", a project focusing on the rights of working women, and through building the capacity of women's institutions.

Children, Youth, Women, Rights, Democracy and Governance, Economic Development.