On – the Job Training on Value Skills for Small Businesses and Chain and Marketing in six villages in the Jordan Valley, under the project of “Rural Development Project in Area C”

Project Overview

Rural Development Project (RDP), is implemented through the Department of projects of the MoLG and linking with Local Governments Units (LGUs) in the targeted communities, and funded by French Development Agency (AFD), this project targeted communities in Area C of the Jordan Valley. The general objective of this project is to contribute to the reinforcement of the resilience of Palestinian communities in Area C. Resilience is defined as the ability of palestinian communities to cope with a host of socioeconomic and political shocks that threaten their assets, way of life, and their continued presence on their land.Within the framework of the project activities is to enhance capacity building for both MoLG and the LGU’s for planning and Development in order to support the Palestinian communities in Area C. MoLG/RDP contracted GCT to conduct on the Job Training on Value Skills for Small Businesses in six villages in the Jordan Valley (Ein Shibli, Froush Beit Dajjan, AlJiftlik, Marj Ghazal, Marj N’aja and Azzubaidat), as one of the capacity building activities that aimed at strengthening and supporting the targeted beneficiaries of these villages who gained grants to establish their own small projects under the first component of this project (Community empowerment) and, since the economy of the target areas has a strongly agricultural focus, most are benefiting from component 2 (support to livelihoods) in which most of them are women who gained these grants to have and manage their own projects, as the total labour force in the agricultural sector in Palestine and these villages are women. On the job training covered different topics including; Farm and agricultural projects management, Veterinary guidance & Public health, Marketing of agricultural/cooperatives products and Food Processing Training.