Dr. Atallah Kuttab, Director General of the Welfare Association and Dr. Juan Jose Daboub, the World Bank’s Middle East Managing Director signed an agreement for the administration of US$10 million grant to support the Palestinian NGO Project III (PNGOIII). The signing ceremony took place in the President’s Office in Ramallah on Friday 2 February 2007.

The proposed development objective of PNGO III project is to institutionalize mechanisms for supporting the Palestinian NGO sector and thereby improve access for effective social services to poor and marginalized communities.

The 3 year project will support the development of a credible and sustainable professional agency (the NGO Development Center, NDC) which will effectively provide technical, policy and funding support to NGOs service delivery programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. NDC will oversee the management of PNGO III project.
The PNGOIII project will have three main components; Institutional Development of NDC, NGO Grant Facility and NGO Sector Development.