Central
The Ministry of Labour is responsible for:
- Ensuring adherence to labour law;
- Overseeing the Palestinian Fund for Employment and Social Protection;
- Managing the labour market information system;
- Establishing and funding local education and training (LET) councils
- Overseeing the employment offices providing services to jobseekers and employers.
The Palestinian Fund for Employment and Social
Protection is responsible for:
- Assisting in job placements;
- Supporting self-employment and micro-enterprise creation;
- Implementing self-employment and cooperative projects targeting people with disabilities, ex-detainees, settlement workers and graduates through cooperation with the Palestine Credit and Development Body.
Employment Offices provide services to jobseekers. Some offices offer a package of career guidance, vocational training-related services, job search and application support and work permits.
The Local Employment and Training
Councils are responsible for:
- Running entrepreneurship training and business start-up programmes;
- Maintaining links and communication between employment stakeholders;
- Supporting partnerships.
The UNRWA runs some employment programmes in Palestinian refugee camps.
Regional
Governorates’ regional planning initiatives include mechanisms to facilitate economic development.
Local
Municipalities are responsible for:
Public markets management;
Licensing of trades and businesses;
Initiating plans to create employment opportunities for their communities.
Although municipalities are legally responsible for employment issues, they do not have the fiscal and professional capacities to implement independent programmes. It is severely affected by restrictions imposed by the Israeli government and the accompanying economic and political crisis. Low levels of compliance with local tax laws shrink local authorities’ budgets, making it harder for them to deliver services and to plan ahead.
However, they do promote locally oriented preconceived plans. For this purpose, some municipalities work with foreign development funds that offer technical experience and funding. For example, Agence Francaise de Development worked with municipalities such as Nablus to improve local infrastructure.
International donors such as the EU, the World Bank and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) focus on creating an enabling environment for local government..
Responsible ministries/bodies
Sources:
- ETF and Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute, 2014 Labour Market And Employment Policies In
Palestine
- Implementation of the European
Neighbourhood Policy in 2009 Progress Report on the Occupied Palestinian
Territory’, European Commission Staff (Mai 2010),
- Local Employment and Training Councils
- Ministry of Education, and Higher Education[H1]
- Ministry of Labour
- National Development Plan 2014-2016
- Palestinian Fund for Employment and Social Protection
- Senechal, T., 2011 ‘AFD Municipal Development Project in the Palestinian Territories’, Evaluation and Capitalisation
- Signoles, A. 2010 ‘Local Government in Palestine’, Focales 02
- The World Bank 2014, West Bank and Gaza: County Brief
- UNRWA, 2016 Projects in the West Bank,,
[H1]combined ministries
