Economic and Social Development Center of Palestine (ESDC)

Services offered through the Institutional and Capacity Building Program:

• Training cooperatives and community economic organizations at all levels;
• Support community socio-economic organization in business development and services including entrepreneur initiatives with financial and material resources required for the establishment of projects or the development of cooperative services;
• Support improvement of the quality of products and services of cooperatives and CBOs;
• Conduct networking and exchange visits of socio-economic organizations locally and externally.

Services offered through the Livelihood and Food Security Program consists of:

• Technical training for farmers and livestock breeders on the means to produce efficiently and sustainably within national and international quality standards through promotion of Good Farming Practices;
• Increasing access to natural resources and traditional and non-traditional water sources;
• Restoring Palestinian farming activities affected by the occupation practices and natural disasters;
• Establishment and technical support of establishing Village Savings and Lending Schemes.