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Food security and livelihoods
CARE WBG is the leading organization in fresh food distribution and food security activities in the oPt. With limitation on access to movement within the West Bank due to check- points and political restrictions, many Palestinians cannot continue lifestyles that were once feasible. A year after the end of the Israeli offensive on Gaza in December 2008, more that 75% of Gaza households - 1 million Palestinians - still rely on food aid to support their families.
Under its food security and livelihood program, CARE was able to assist more than 300,000 vulnerable individuals in 2009. The program addresses both immediate and long term food security needs of Palestinians. It provides vulnerable households and social and health care institutions with fresh vegetables, at the same time it assists farmers in selling their products. It also contributes to protecting vulnerable households who lost their main source of income from falling into the poverty cycle by creating small income generating activities for them. These include but are not limited to: providing them with beehives, rabbits, small greenhouses, chicken, sheep and the appropriate training as needed. Farmers are also supported to rehabilitate their agricultural lands and greenhouses in order to resume their agricultural production. Such programs assist vulnerable households in achieving sustainable livelihoods, especially at a time of rapidly increasing unemployment and a limited economy.
Current Projects:
Reducing Food Insecurity in Conflict Affected Communities in the West Bank
The goal of this project is to improve the amount and quality of food for people indentified as being at risk ....
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Fresh Food IV: Reducing Food Insecurity through Fresh Food Assistance and Agricultural Inputs to Vulnerable Households in the Gaza Strip
The goal of this project is to support vulnerable households and small farmers to maintain their livelihoods ....
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CIDA: Quick Impact Agricultural Livelihood Recovery
This project aims to support 3,530 households with support recovery for agricultural production, increase access to nutritious food, and rehabilitate agricultural infrastructure ....
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Completed Projects:
DFID: Emergency Livelihood Support for Conflict Affected Small Farmers and Rural Households in the Gaza Strip
This project seeks to provide 7,560 households with regular access to fresh food as well as economic aid in order to sustain a regular income ....
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DEC: Recovery of Agricultural Livelihoods Lost as a Direct Result of the Recent Conflict
This project aims to help 550 small scale farmers and rural households with strategic recovery of harvests destroyed by conflict ....
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ECHO Food Security: Emergency Assistance for Households and Farmers in West Bank and Gaza
Recognizing the necessity of finding longterm solutions to alleviate rural poverty, CARE West Bank and Gaza (CARE WBG), with funding from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), began implementing the ....
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Food 7: Emergency Food Security Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
To ensure vulnerable communities in the West Bank and Gaza are food secure by helping to increase their food production and income ....
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SAFES: Emergency Water Supply and Sanitation in the West Bank
Project Sector: Food Security
Project Type: Development
Donor: The European Commission
The SAFES Jenin project will improve food security in 763 poor and marginalized Palestinian households in ten villages in the Jenin District of the West Bank. Because of the ongoing conflict and travel restrictions, residents of the beneficiary villages are vulnerable to declining living standards ....
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LIOPT: Livelihood Improvement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Project Sector: Food Security
Project Type: Development
Donor: AUSAID
The purpose of LIOPT is to improve food security, and community resilience in a way that supports equal participation of women in 9 communities in Jenin and Tubas Governorates. The attainment of this purpose rests upon three components that are complementary in nature and linked in practice ....
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Food 4: Emergency Food Security Assistance to Vulnerable Households in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Project Sector: Food Security
Project Type: Emergency Relief
Donor: The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department
This project, “Emergency Food Security Assistance to Vulnerable Households in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” will improve the food security of families living in villages in the West Bank and Gaza through the promotion of small-scale agricultural activities ....
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