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Introduction:
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AMAN Coalition for Accountability and Integrity and within the
third phase of its core program " promoting
integrity,transparency and accountability in the Palestinian
society," initiated the implementation of the grant funds
program targeting the Palestinian NGOs working in the oPT, AMAN
Coalition has been entrusted to grant funds to Palestinian NGOs;
these funds has been made available as part of AMAN’s core fund
provided by the governments of Norway and the Netherlands. |
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This program, the first of its kind from AMAN coalition, aims at
encouraging Palestinian NGOs to adopt initiatives and activities in the
area of good governance and anti-corruption culture through the
promoting the values of integrity, transparency and accountability in
the Palestinian society, in addition to the dissemination of and
promoting a non tolerant culture with corruption,
the grant program came from the basis of the initial commitment
of such rules as an essential component of good governance on the road
to building a system of national integrity, which AMAN coalition adopted
since its establishment in the year 2000 upon the initiative by a number
of Palestinian civil society organizations working in the field of human
rights and good governance to promote the values of integrity,
principles of transparency and systems of accountability in the
Palestinian society.
Outsourcing
program Description:
In order to raise the capacity of civil society organizations (in
particular NGOs) to act as watchdogs on the public sector, AMAN has
planned to outsource part of its program fund to encourage NGOs to
submit proposals on themes handling minimizing impact of corruption on
marginalized groups and raising awareness campaigns about various forms
of corruption and its impact on the Palestinian Society.
The notion behind outsourcing strategy is to stimulate local partners
and channel them in the direction of AMAN’s mission. This will encourage
them to incorporate anti-corruption activities in their programs and
mandate. By doing so, AMAN will enhance the capacity of these
organizations and spread the anti-corruption culture and practices
amongst the Palestinian people.
Outsourcing will serve AMAN’s new approach that will be adopted and
followed during this phase; it will release part of the load pertaining
to awareness raising activities and channel it to partner organizations.
Thus, AMAN’s role will move to a higher level of monitoring and
directing of the overall process. Throughout this process, AMAN will
focus on building the capacity of the NGOs in the direction of
accountability and transparency as well as pressuring the PNA and public
institutions to be more responsive to transparency and accountability
through the implementation of relevant legislations, policies and
bylaws.
Local partners will be selected to implement the outsourced activities,
such partnership is planned to take place through the year of 2009 and
estimated to start on late march and the beginning of April 2009 and
will last for a period of 8 months. Financial and technical reports will
be submitted to AMAN as will be agreed in the joint contracts. AMAN’s
team will assume the responsibility of monitoring and evaluating the
implemented activities.
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