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Palestine Living Conditions
Surveys
The main objective of the studies is to provide government
officials, donors and civil society representatives
with tools for monitoring the situation and the assistance
in Palestine. Each study relies on polls that measure
the Palestinians’ perceptions about the situation
and its evolution, the assistance received, its impact
and their satisfaction with it as well as many other
topics relevant for the people involved in assistance
in Palestine.
Since January 2001, five relevant polls were conducted.
A representative sample of 1,202 Palestinians over
the age of 18, are interviewed face-to-face. In the
West Bank 633 Palestinians were interviewed, 440 in
the Gaza Strip and 129 in East Jerusalem. The fact
that most questions remained the same throughout the
period gives a unique wealth of monitoring information.
The surveys are divided in the following parts:
Part 1 : The general
situation in terms of mobility and security conditions
during the period covered by the survey.
Part 2 : A portrait of the socio-economic
conditions. This helps the reader in assessing change
in the evolution of poverty and of Palestinians’
strategies for sustaining the hardship and coping
with the situation.
Part 3 : The labour market and the
employment status (including the place of work, occupation
and the effects of the Intifada on jobs).
Part 4 : An overview of the assistance
delivered according to type, value and source with
emphasis on employment generation programs.
Part 5 : A review of the impact of
the assistance delivered for measuring the perceptions
of the Palestinians, including an analysis of the
people’s perceptions on individual and community
assistance, aid priorities as well as the visibility,
importance and effectiveness of the assistance delivered.
Part 6 : All questions pertain to
food. They cover perceived effectiveness of food distribution,
type and source of food assistance provided, changes
in food consumption patterns and types of food required.
Part 7 : Additional questions relate
to health and education. They concern assistance received,
priorities, access to basic services and educational
attainment.
Part 8 : The questions deal with
the issue of Women and Children. The effect of the
Intifada on children, parents’ responses, psychological
support, children’s work and women’s contribution
to the household’s income are investigated in
this part.
Part 9 : An assessment of UNRWA’s
strategies during the past months, the type of assistance
provided by the UN Agency (in particular food aid,
employment generation and financial assistance), the
patterns of aid distribution and its effectiveness,
as well as the satisfaction of its beneficiaries.
Reports
Riccardo BOCCO, Matthias BRUNNER, Isabelle DANEELS,
Jalal HUSSEINI, Frédéric LAPEYRE, Jamil
RABAH
Expert Meetings BADIL Resource
Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
You can find the working papers presented during
the Expert Meetings and the seminar proceedings at:
http://www.badil.org/Campaign/Expert_Forum.htm
Round-tables CETIM Europe
Third-World Center
Some of the interventions and more details about
the round-tables can be downloaded from the CETIM
web site
Relevant literature / «
Grey » literature
International experts and organisations often produce
relevant reports that unfortunately are not shared
with a larger public. The aim of this section is
to
make this “grey” literature more accessible
and in the future, we the agreement of the authors
we will put on the web site a number of documents
interesting for those who are dealing with the interventions
of the international organisations in conflict and
post-conflict regions, with a special interest for
the Palestinian – Israeli conflict.
Others
Palestinian
Public Perceptions Presentation
to the Stakeholders, 13th of September 2005, Ramallah [pdf]
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