• Contact: TAMADOR AKEL
  • Address: Ramallah, Almaahed Street.
  • Phone: 00970 2 2963840
  • Email: info@pal-arc.org
  • Web: www.pal-arc.org
  • Members:
    PARC

PARC

The Agricultural Development Association

Member since: 2018

Working towards these commitments

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
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Protected land rights defenders

Mission

PARC is  a national developmental organization that strives to develop the agricultural sector, strengthen the resilience of farmers, reach out to the poor and marginalized groups and their CBO's, mobilize and develop the capabilities of rural people to enable them to control their resources, through the work of a distinguished professional teams and loyal volunteers. This has been accomplished through creative programs and transparent management and through technical practices to contribute to the establishment of a free and democratic Palestinian society with the values of social justice.

Objectives

The strategic objectives of PARC are the following: strengthening the agricultural sector profitability and its competitiveness, holding the occupation accountable towards Palestinian rights related to the agricultural sector and rural areas, creating and enabling legal environment and governmental policies for the development of the agricultural sector and rural areas, enhancing the role of agricultural cooperatives and grassroots institutions working in agricultural and rural development and enhancing PARC's efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and accountability.

Constituencies

PARC is a pioneer national developmental organization with a regional trend committed to rural and agricultural development, social justice and national liberation.

  • Contact: TAMADOR AKEL
  • Address: Ramallah, Almaahed Street.
  • Phone: 00970 2 2963840
  • Email: info@pal-arc.org
  • Web: www.pal-arc.org
  • Members:
    PARC
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