As a leading Palestinian non-governmental development organization, the Welfare Association is dedicated to making 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 Palestinian needs and priorities and establishing sound mechanisms to maximize benefits from the available funding resources.

Welfare Association is a private, non-profit foundation established in Geneva in 1983 to support Palestinian society in sustainable development. It has become better known in Palestine and the Arab region by its Arabic name, Ta"awoun, meaning cooperation.
WA beneficiaries are the more than 4 million Palestinians who are served by Palestinian non-governmental organizations, community institutions and charitable organizations in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Galilee, Jaffa, Akka, Nazareth and Naqab, as well as in refugee camps in Lebanon.

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The World Bank is not a bank in the common sense. The World Bank is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 185 member countries, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

Each institution plays a different but supportive role in the World Bank mission of global poverty reduction and the improvement of living standards. The IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together they provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit and grants to developing countries for education, health, infrastructure, communications and many other purposes.

The French Development Agency (AFD) is a financial institution that is at the heart of France’s Development Assistance policy. Its mission is to finance development.

AFD’s actions in favor of economic growth and preservation of the environment fall directly within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These priority development objectives were set out in the year 2000 by the United Nations and seek to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015.

AFD also contributes to the preservation of Global Public Goods and can react to crisis situations. The Agency is also developing financial and intellectual partnerships with other donors and strives to increase French influence in the area of development. AFD is involved in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, in the Middle East, and in Overseas France, thanks to its network of agencies and its different subsidiaries.

A group of donors, namely Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Switzerland have decided to harmonize their financial assistance to NGOs that work on promoting Human Rights and Good Governance (HR/GG) in the oPt. This funding was a continuation of their support to the sector, which started in 2005. Accordingly, donors have identified a suitable implementing partner to establish a new mechanism through the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) to achieve this objective. This program is currently managed by NDC. For more on the program, please click here.