NGO Grant Programs for Social Service Delivery
NDC invests in four different grant schemes to individual NGOs to enhance the delivery of social services to targeted communities and groups. Grants are awarded to local Palestinian organizations through an effective approach combining intensive local needs assessment, program design and evaluation processes, and hands-on technical assistance and guidance to NGOs.
Disadvantaged communities such as those isolated by the separation barrier receive preferential access, as do target vulnerable groups such as women, youth, people with special needs, children, orphans, women headed households, and the destitute elderly. Priority sectors include Agricultural Activities, Youth Development, Early Childhood Development, Psychosocial/Mental Health, Disability, and Social Protection Services.
Organizations may receive only one type of grant at a time, in response to a call for proposals. Funding is leveraged with capacity-building activities that strengthen NGO management, finance, and monitoring and evaluation skills, among others. All participating NGOs are expected to contribute at least five percent towards the total cost of the project.
The four grant types are:
NDC has completed the appraisal and selection of the beneficiary NGOs, and are in the process of implementing project activities..
