Strategic Objectives
Higher revenues and better competiveness opportunities for Palestinian products, i.e. Strengthening the agricultural sector profitability and its competitiveness through
Strategic Goal number 1:
Higher revenues and better competiveness opportunities for Palestinian products, i.e. Strengthening the agricultural sector profitability and its competitiveness through:
- Developing and improving land productivity and accessibility.
- Ensuring additional water resources.
- Increasing and developing fodder production, animal breed and pastoral areas.
- Improving and expanding fish farming.
- Strengthening households’ economy and marketing mechanism in favor of the small producers.
- Supporting and expanding application of renewable energy.
- Protecting and developing local seeds among producers and consumers.
- Establishing of business oriented models/ economic entrepreneurs with partnerships among private sector –farmers’ bodies.
- Developing microfinance products for agriculture development.
- Improving crop pattern and diversity based on consumer needs.
- Improving agriculture infrastructures facilities.
- Improving the quality of local products.
- Developing and strengthening Palestinian branding, trade market and certifications.
- Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the extension services program.
- Improving and encouraging applied research and innovation.
- Strengthening skills and capacities of workers in pre and post harvesting.
- Strengthening and empowering farmers committees.
- Supporting cooperation and networking among different stakeholders.
Strategic Goal number 2:
Holding the occupation accountable towards Palestinian rights related to the agricultural sector and rural areas.
- Pursuing the Israeli’s occupation to protect farmer’s rights and compensate them for damages.
- Supporting farmers’ efforts in prosecuting Israeli’s occupation.
- Drawing attention to the situation at the checkpoints and crossing borders.
- Monitoring and documenting the movement of the Israelis’ product in the Palestinian markets.
- Supporting farmers’ initiatives to invest in their agriculture lands behind the apartheid wall.
- Encouraging and promoting the presence of local products.
- Boycotting of the Israelis’ settlement products.
- Raising the Awareness of the solidarity groups to magnitude of the Israeli’s violations to the rights of producers and farmers.
Strategic Goal number 3:
Creating an enabling legal environment and governmental policies for the development of the agricultural sector and rural areas.
- Development of an economic incentive’s package for agricultural rural areas.
- Promoting Land registration.
- Support and development of different risk insurance and emergency response systems.
- Protection of the agricultural farmland usage.
- Developing of Palestinian Standard and specifications.
- Activating trade exchange agreements.
- Import and export.
- Developing of Brand name – trade mark.
- Developing the agricultural calendar.
- Organizing awareness campaigns in the field of legislation governing system.
- Developing a pattern of holding the private sector accountable to the farmer’s rights.
- Development of the agricultural census and linked them with the development plans.
- Strengthening consumer committees.
- Developing of farmer’s health insurance.
- Monitoring of local policies and strategies.
Strategic Goal number 4:
Enhancing the role of agricultural cooperatives and grassroots institutions working in agriculture and rural development.
- Promoting collective ownership of production inputs.
- Mechanization and agro-processing.
- Developing mechanisms of collective purchasing.
- Upgrading infrastructure of marketing and production.
- Purchasing and collective marketing.
- Cooperative capacity building.
- Developing governance system and practices.
- People organization and mobilization.
- Establishing cooperatives.
Strategic Goal number 5:
Enhancing PARC’s efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and accountability.
- Ensuring PARC’s sustainability (efficiency & effectiveness).
- Fundraising by ensuring diversity of resources.
- Developing the organization’s property returns and investments.
- Developing logistical support and information and communication systems.
- Strengthening the governance in the organization.
- Developing policies and procedures.
- Staff training.
- Training of volunteers.
- Improving media and telecommunications.
- The formation of employees committees.
- Strengthening the governance in the organization.
