Women Aid Women: Humanitarian response in the West Bank ltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gtDriven and facilitated by community-based,
women-led teams in Hebron and Bethlehem governates in previous project,
DanChurchAid/Norwegian Church Aid’s (DCA/NCA) and the local organization, the Young
Men’s Christian Association (YMCA.) aim to provide Multipurpose Cash Assistance
(MPCA) to 169 women and their households to lt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: black"gtmeet
their basic needs in accountable and satisfactory form in ten (10) communities.lt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gt Each woman and her household will receive 1240 shekel each
month for 5 consecutive months. The MPCA transfer value is based on the minimum
expenditure basket (MEB) developed by the West Bank Cash Working Group (CWG).lt/spangtlt/pgt

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ltp class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gtThe overall project objective is to lt/spangtltbgtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: black"gtEnhance the economic coping
capacity of vulnerable women and their familieslt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: red"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: black"gtduring the Palestinian protracted crises in the Southern governorates of
the West Banklt/spangtlt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gt. While the entry point for identifying target
women is their socio-economic situation, the project’s impact encompasses women
with different sensitive and vulnerable living circumstances. lt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74)"gtltbrgt
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ltspan style="background-color: white"gtThe YMCA will work through a highly
participatory approach, centered around collaboration with established PGs in
10 communities in both design and implementation. Key elements of the project
approach are:lt/spangtltbrgt
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ltspan style="background-color: white"gtA Survivor Community-Led Response (sclr) method:lt/spangtltbrgt
ltspan style="background-color: white"gtThe sclr approach puts communities in the
driver’s seat when identifying their own needs, deciding on priorities,
planning, and implementing actions to respond to needs identified.lt/spangtltbrgt
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ltp class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gtThe Protection Groups (PGs)lt/spangtlt/pgt

ltpgtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74) background-color: white"gtThe proposed project will
work with already established PGs that were established in the two governorates
of Hebron and Bethlehem during previous projects supported by DCA/NCA.lt/spangtltspan style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif color: rgb(74, 74, 74)"gtltbrgt
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ltspan style="background-color: white"gtA community PG is an informal structure that
consists of a group of women, young women, men, and young men from the
community. The SCLR approach has equipped the PGs with the necessary skills and
preparedness to facilitate, organize, and coordinate collective action by the community.
The proposed project will further empower the PGs as they will play a key role in
the implementation of the proposed project as they are the connection between
communities, DCA/NCA and its partner YMCA.lt/spangtltbrgt
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ltspan style="background-color: white"gtIn this project, each PG will nominate 2 women
and they will act with the EJ-YMCA field teams to reach out to the vulnerable
women within their communities. The PG will map women’s needs in their
communities for the vulnerable targeted women, based on their first-hand
knowledge of the socio-economic situation and vulnerability of women in their
communities, develop the localized selection criteria, assist the YMCA project
field team to collect data, and document the action/process.lt/spangtltbrgt
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ltspan style="background-color: white"gtWith the project relying on nominated PG women,
it seeks to promote women as active, capable, resilient participants in their
communities. The project aims to support the women themselves in making the
choice to undertake and commit to responsibilities that go beyond the family
sphere and are at community level. The project seeks to enhance their
confidence in decision-making and highlight this within their communities.
These discussions seek as well to add transparency, accountability, and
responsiveness to the PG women’s role and enhance visibility in the
communities.lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgt