The purpose of the project is to establish a much-needed Crisis Management Center and to introduce crisis management practices and contingency plans to all Palestinian sectors in the area.

The situation in Palestine is particular in that the nature of the crises in light of the ongoing conflict is negatively impacting the economy, the infrastructure and society on all levels. Repeated damage has been and continues to be sustained to civilian buildings, businesses, government offices and infrastructure in Palestinian areas, including the partial or complete destruction of roads, sewage networks, water supplies and electrical grids. There are heavy restrictions on civilian movement in all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip accompanied by extensive curfews, notification of which is unpredictable, inconsistent and randomly enforced. Movement on primary roads and the majority of secondary roads was banned for much of 2002, enforced via cement blocks and earth ramparts. The Israeli military presence is observable throughout some 150 to 180 military checkpoints.

The curriculum of the training program that is expected should be structured to deal with the above challenges. It should be designed to form the project’s coordinators to become professional trainers with the requisite knowledge, skills and strategies that will enable them to respond to the needs and provide services, training programs and workshops, and training manuals and materials to representatives from the non-governmental, governmental and private sectors.

Please let us know if you or any other suitable consultants that you may know would be interested in this assignment and what is their earliest availability and fees.

Juliette Abu-Iyun
Project's Coordinator