Jewellery and ornaments services and manufacturing The project partners would like to introduce the first high quality refinement and manufacturing facility for gold and silver jewellery and ornaments located in Hebron, the Palestinian Territories. They will substitute products and services which are currently imported or outsourced abroad. During the PSI project the partners will focus on:- Refinement, analysis, recovery and recycling services,- Design, prototyping and master model services,- Gold jewellery & ornament manufacturing from refined and recycled gold.The design services will also focus on the export market, with an initial focus on Jordan and the Gulf countries. The plant will be ISO 14000 certified. The applicant is the Turkish company Odessa, established in 2007 and specialised in manufacturing and exporting gold and silver jewellery and ornaments worldwide with a specific focus on the Gulf countries. Odessa employs ten persons. Odessa partners with the local company Al-Sayyed Jewelry Company, a qualified manufacturing company of different types of jewellery and golden ornament. The company started trading in 1984, but is officially established in 1992 and employs 22 persons. The two companies will set up a joint venture for this project in Hebron.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The joint venture will obtain ISO 9000 certification during the PSI project and the joint venture will comply with the Ethical Trade Initiative. The joint venture will pay health insurance costs to all its employees and will incorporate recycling within their core production process. The partners will prepare their employees for the more complex ISO 14000 during the PSI project, but the certification itself will be introduced and certified in the spin-off phase.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsSalaries are at least 214% above the minimum wage. All employees will be offered long-term employment contracts including severance pay. For new employees there will be probation periods of 3 to 6 months. Work weeks will be 4 hours less than the official average in the Palestinian Territories. The employees will also have 28 days of paid annual leave. For each employee, the joint venture will pay for health insurance and pension schemes on top of their salaries. Furthermore, the costs for travel to and from work will be reimbursed as well as the costs for a daily lunch. The joint venture will support workers' unions and encourage their employees to form one or join an existing one.The employees will periodically be trained by experts on potential health hazards.•	Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeThe employees will be trained on the following subjects:- Product/service.- Market.- Sector effect.- Production method.- Logistics.- Organisation.•	Chain effectsImpact on local suppliersLocal Palestinian jewellery stores, workshops and factories will benefit as they no longer have to go outside the Palestinian Territories for recovery and refining of their precious metals. This saves them travel and transportation costs. It will also shorten delivery time and provide more continuity of services as the precious metals no longer have to go out and come back through check points.Impact on local customers or consumersThe introduction of new technologies and certification will have a positive effect on the sector, but the project includes no concrete activities towards other commercial parties.•	Impact on the sectorThe consortium already started negotiations with the technical universities in Hebron and the Palestinian Territories to be engaged officially with the project as training partner to allow for students to be trained on the new technologies. The universities are very interested to cooperate on different subjects. Not only for introducing knowledge but also providing internships for students.•	EnvironmentThe environmental impact will be positive as local companies/workshops can now use the services of the new factory instead of recovering and refining their precious metals themselves in environmentally unfriendly ways.•	Position of womenOut of the 33 jobs that will be created during the implementation of this project, it is expected that thirteen will be held by female employees: four basic and nine medium/high skilled. The establishment of a services and manufacturing company in gold and silver ornaments and jewellery for the Palestinian Territories.