Contribute towards developing the effectiveness of social work and ensuring its freedom and independence in a civil society that is based on law, pluralism and in full coordination and cooperation with civil society institutions, all governmental agencies and the other concerned parties

Achieving this mission requires reaching various aims within an environment based on cooperation and trust with NGOs, in which the Ministry plays the role of a facilitator to these institutions and not as a substitute to them, these aims are as follows:

First Objective: Develop organizational structures and set up clear visions and policies

1. Increasing the skills and knowledge of NGO employees

2.      Developing internal systems – administrative and financial systems within NGOs

3.      Developing organizational structures within NGOs

4.      Enhancing the internal democratic environment within NGOs

5.      Differentiating between professional and political activity

6.      Enhancing the developmental nature of NGOs

7.      Helping NGOs open up to the local community

8.      Enhancing exposure and benefiting from the experience and expertise of Arab and International NGOs

Second Objective: Develop and apply professional transparency

1.      Activating the NGO law and preparing internal systems

2.      Developing internal and external professional supervision

3. Activating internal systems

Third Objective: Granting voluntarism its importance and activating it

1.      Increasing awareness in regard to voluntarism and its role in developing civil society activities

2.      Issuing law and decrees that encourage adopting and enlivening voluntarism

3.      Emphasizing the role and results of voluntarism, and disseminating contemporary concepts among the local community

4.      Activating participation of women leaders in voluntary and civil work

Enhancing and developing social links and ties

Fourth Objective: Increasing coordination and cooperation between NGOs on the one hand, and between them and the public sector on the other

1.      Increasing and developing coordination frameworks and mechanisms between NGOs and increasing their effectiveness

2.      Increasing awareness of the importance and necessity of cooperation and coordination

3.      Enhancing coordination and cooperation between NGOs and both the PNA and the private sector

Finding incentives for common work and cooperation between the three sectors

Fifth Objective: Developing sources and size of funding for NGOs

Through:

1.      Developing and organizing government support sources

2.      Increasing local support to NGOs

3.      Enabling NGOs to draft project proposals and to carry out fund-raising activities

4.      Developing self-reliance among NGOs

Establishing a trust fund to support civil work

Sixth Objective: Enhancing the freedom and independence of Palestinian civil society

1.      Confronting Israeli policies hostile to civil society institutions and activities, especially in Jerusalem

2.      Applying the NGO Law and all its bylaws

3.      Increasing awareness of the role of NGOs and that of the PNA in developing the local community

4.      Increasing some NGOs’ exposure and contact with other NGOs

5.      Establishing a general code of conduct for NGOs

Ensuring the independence and freedom of civil society so as to complement the role of government in serving the various working sectors

Seventh Objective: Helping NGOs in adopting national development priorities as per the Palestinian National Development Plan.

1.      Enabling NGOs to hold to the national development priorities

2.      Making donor agencies adopt national development priorities

3.      Enhancing the role and participation of NGOs in defining and preparing national and sectoral development priorities

4.      Enhancing coordination and exchange information between NGOs on the one hand and between government and private sector on the other

Developing sectoral strategies on the national level.