- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Heritage
- Youth and education
WA envisions the Palestinian people as citizens of an independent, free, and democratic Arab Palestine, living in dignity, prosperity, and self-fulfilment, with equitable access to opportunities to realize their full potential with distinction and creativity.
WA strives to make a distinguished contribution toward furthering the progress of the Palestinians, preserving their heritage and identity, supporting their living culture and building civil society. It aims to achieve these goals by methodically identifying the Palestinian people’s needs and priorities and establishing the soundest mechanisms to maximize the benefits from the available funding resources.
WA objectives:
* Encourage the preservation of Palestinian culture and identity and the revival of Palestinian cultural heritage.
* Develop, upgrade and empower Palestinian individuals to become productive, professional and capable of achieving their goals and aspirations and to contribute to economic and social change.
* Empower local institutions and assist them in providing services that respond to the needs of Palestinians by employing the requirements of good governance and achieving sustainability.
* Provide rapid and effective response to any emergency situation that may put the life, security or health of Palestinians at risk.
Working Sectors and Programs:
In its strategic plan 2011-2013; WA identified four main sectors of intervention: education, culture, community development, and emergency and humanitarian assistance. It adopts a set of development and relief programs and interventions that respond to community needs in all WA fields of operation.
These programs are envisaged to be comprehensive and sustainable in order to expand their impact both vertically and horizontally.
Within this context, the plan gives priority to integrated and comprehensive programs, in addition to a number of individual programs that allow a space for adopting new initiatives or responding to area-specific needs.
The program packaging concept does not apply to the emergency and humanitarian assistance sector as it adopts varied intervention mechanisms based on emergency and humanitarian assistance needs.
In its four main sectors of intervention that assists Palestinian development efforts namely: education, culture, community development, and emergency and humanitarian assistance, the WA adopts a set of development and relief programs and interventions that respond to community needs in all WA fields of operation. These programs are envisaged to be comprehensive and sustainable in order to be attractive for replication for wider impact. Children and youth, the poor, students especially from under-served areas/communities, and special needs individuals are particularly targeted. WA strength is its function not only as a donor, but as a partner in implementation with many donor organizations. It has a wide network of partners locally in West Bank and Gaza Strip, which enables it to be ready for implementation and overseeing of activities with no delay in quality systematic means. This strength can play a key role in supporting/overseeing/partnering future AFL projects within the network of 230 current members, whom some are already current partners with WA.
There are several cross cutting objectives that both our organisations address, and being a part of the ALF network will enable further dialogue and sharing of best practices in the fields of activities.