4th Floor – Dream Building – Haboush Street – Al Remal
Gaza
Palestinian Territories
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
Vision Statement: To be a leading think and do tank in Palestine and in the Middle East that contributes to the building of a free and modern Palestinian state and democratic society.
Mission Statement: To promote peace, freedom and prosperity through debate on public issues, and produce policy recommendations to the decision makers in Palestine and Middle East. Pal-Think aims to perform constructive and facilitative roles in the rationalization of public discussions, thinking and decision processes, and improves the Palestinians’ life quality by promoting innovative development solutions that challenges mainstream thinking on politics, economics and social issues.
Some of our main projects throughout the past 6 years include the followings:
2007 Engaging the community into the process of reconciliation ($35,000)
2008 Empowering the community in the Palestinian National Reconciliation ($42,000)
2010 Influential Confidence Building between Decision Makers and the Community ($45,000)
2011 Restoring the Cooperation amongst Community Actors towards a Reconciled and Civilized Society ($52,000)
2012 Civil society’s heavy involvement to restore unity, democracy and rule of law ($65,000)
2013 Toward holding public policies accountable, respecting women rights & empowering tolerance ($85,000).
Through this membership will further engage the the ALF network with orgnizations in the Gaza Strip. In the mean time, by becoming a member of the network, Pal-Think for Strategic Studies is ambitious to be:
• Highly credible and effective scholarly research center.
• Attractive to those who have an idea that needs further researching and exploration.
• A place that provides a supportive incubator to the liberal, free and diversified thoughts and ideas.
• A place that produces policy recommendations that attract the attention and the respect of the private sector, governments and civil society institutions.
The ALF network provides a great opportunity for us a civil society organization to connect with other organizations the Euro-Mediterranean region. This will allow us to engage in programs and activities where expertise such as our are needed. We seek partnership and cooperation. We are a very influential institution in the Gaza Strip and would be very honored to share, exchange and plan actions with other regional organizations.