Core Support for ESDC strategy "Dignity Seeds"
Project Objectives
The overall aim is to enable disadvantaged formal and informal women and men groups to engage actively in socio-economic activities. The project tackles two of their own strategic objectives. Strategic Objective 1: Socio-economic organisations have an economic and social role within their community. Strategic Objective 4: ESDC achieves its objectives efficiently and effectively and complies with good governance standards.
Summary
Within rural sustainable development, ESDC supports women and farmer-based organisations, including cooperatives, mainly in organisational and business development and creating enabling environment. Also, ESDC supports sustainable farming and food production as well as building farmers' resilience to fight poverty's root causes that threaten Palestinian small producers because of the occupation and enabling them to adapt to climate change. ESDC will work to build the organisational and business capacities of member-based organisations, including cooperatives. ESDC promotes organised member-based organisations, and will apply a non-discrimination and meaningful participation approach in order to instill ownership and transparency among the target group ensuring the active participation of existing and potential members and the engagement of women and men, girls and boys who live in poverty and whose rights are violated, who work together to reach common goals.
The expected results for this project are:
• Member-based organisations and initiatives adopt internal policies that are consistent with good governance best practices;
• Member-based organisations and initiatives operate businesses and services that are relevant to their mission and members;
• Women, youth and farmers actively engage in social economy organisations and pioneering cooperatives;
• Small-scale producers are organised in a socio-economic groups, to protect their rights and develop their businesses and achievements;
• ESDC has an effective planning and monitoring system;
• Institutionalized gender mainstreaming in all aspects of operations.
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