Competency and Capacity building for Al Rajaa’s project management team on MEAL and Project Cycle Management

Project Overview

The GIZ’s strengthening the Civil Society Programme (CSP) is designed to improve the capacity of Civil ‘Society Organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The project is currently in its third project phase. The main objective of CSP III is: Civil society organizations are better able to contribute towards the political participation of the population in line with the 2030 Agenda demand to ‘leave no one behind’. To achieve its objective, CSP provides technical advice and support to NGOs and CBOs that focus on advocating the rights and interests of women, youth and people with disability. The main geographic intervention areas of the CSP are in East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and marginalized areas of the West Bank.Al Rajaa’ Center for Sports and Development is a national NGO that was established in Jerusalem in 2016, is one of the selected NGOs under CSP. The center provides a series of activities and programs to children and youth in Jerusalem, including children with disabilities. Also, the center targets women and children and their parents. In this context, GIZ has contracted GCT to provide capacity building activities to Al Rajaa’ Center, these activities aimed to capitalize on and build the (1) MEAL capacity and (2) Project Cycle Management (PCM) skills of Al Rajaa’s project management team through the following steps: 1) Build MEAL capacity and enhance knowledge of Al Rajaa’s staff members (program department staff including project managers, project officers, field coordinators, advocacy and commission officers). 2) Build PCM capacity and enhance knowledge of Al Rajaa’s staff members to enhance the understanding and the skills of the staff in project cycle management by applying participatory approaches as an implementation approach to ensure the community is given enough space in the phases of the project cycle. The staff will acquire skills to manage the project through community participation and will provide Al Rajaa's senior staff with a complete set of competencies, techniques, tools and good practices for managing all project life-cycle phases: project identification, preparation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.