The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) concluded on Monday eight community meetings on the role of NGOs in promoting resilience of the Palestinian people; especially the most marginalized groups in society, as a basis to demand for the basic rights enshrined in the international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

The meetings held as part of the project of "Rights and Resilience" in partnership with ActionAid-Palestine and funded by DANIDA, and they targeted non-governmental organizations members of PNGO sectors (PNGO includes in total six sectors which are the agricultural, education, rehabilitation, health, youth and  women), in addition to human rights organizations and international organizations operating in the Gaza Strip.

The meetings aimed at promoting the resilience of women and youth affected by protracted crises and disasters, and aimed at examining the awareness and commitment of NGOs to the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Quality and Accountability of humanitarian response interventions.

They also aimed at examining and documenting accountability mechanisms outlined by CHS and used by NGOs in planning and implementing humanitarian interventions.

The meetings as well aimed at identifying the most important sectors of NGOs and NGOs response to the needs and rights of the Palestinian people.

They also aimed at identifying the most prominent gaps and challenges facing the humanitarian interventions of NGOs as well as gender sensitivity and NGOs response to gender sensitivity in the current reality of the Gaza Strip.

A research study will be launched through this project, to document NGOs accountability mechanisms particularly employed by women and the extent to which NGO interventions are consistent with the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Quality and Accountability and gender sensitivity.