Eid Hijazi street
Rashed Khader Building- Basement Floor
Hebron
Palestinian Territories
- International/Cultural relations
PCMRD was established as a NGO, no partisan social center in 2004. PCMRD is Hebron based community development and research center aims at joining and contributing to the efforts of igniting positive community change and human values in Palestine.
PCMRD is employing all the possible tools, resources, methods and instruments to empower CBOs and NGOs to professionally improve the quality and quantity of programs focusing on youth, children and women, and to maximize its impact on the local community; including, quality service delivery, lobby activities, advocacy initiatives and projects that aim at changing the harsh reality and challenges hindering the socioeconomic development. PCMRD develops activities; youth exchanges, voluntary workcamps, training workshops, specialized seminars..)
PCMRD is managed by elected board of 7 members. It receives no funds from any stable sources. depends on project proposals.
Develop the media content and discourse at all levels within the society.
Employ the digital media and its applications in advocacy and lobby for basic civil and human rights of the marginalized groups.
Ignite reasons for behavioral change process by stimulating public and sectors debates, developing activities related to freedom of expression and ideas exchanges on the core issues of democracy, human rights, civil freedoms and active citizenship.
Provide space for young people to develop their professional and career skills using all possible tools and instruments available; media, music and research.
Employ media and its application in exposing the community needs and transparency.
Employ media and its applications in rising the awareness of the decision makers towards certain shortfalls and community needs to encourage their interactions to address them.
Provide periodical studies, researches and reports that tackle community needs with focus on youth and women and ways to address them.
Increase and encourage the participation of young people and the community at large in civil society actions and public life in Palestine.
- Women Voices: project organized by IPYL and funded by UNESCO-IPDC- 2007 and aimed at empowering 25 women in media and its different applications from Hebron district to become agents of change and advocates for women rights.
- “ICT and Media: Efficient tools for youth to counter extremism”.
13 months project aims at empowering young Palestinians from Hebron to counter extremism over the internet. The project took place in 2017- 2018. Funded by UNESCO- Societies of Knowledge Unit
• 20-26/11/2023 three members attended the CCIVS network meeting- General Assembly Athens- Greece.
• 6-17/8/2023 organized and ran international voluntary workcamp- through World Heritage Volunteers at Battir town in south west Jerusalem.
• 25-28/5/2023 two members attended three days’ climate change festival organized by Legambiente - at Paestum (Salerno) Italy and supported by the world heritage volunteers focal point- Better World- Korea.
• 23-31 /5/2023. One member attended this one-week long training workshop (“E=MC²º - Empowerment through Management and Coordination), organized by Egyesek (On behalf of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations) in Holoko-Hungary and co-funded by the European Fund for Council of Europe Youth Council (project reference number: 230.WP.2023) and by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
• 1-6 /3/2023, delegation of 2 members of the center attended the technical meeting of the Alliance (Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations) in Riga- Latvia. The meeting gathered 120 persons from 35 countries to exchange the international voluntary workcamps programs and to maintain our network with influential global networks.
we have very extensive experience in organizing international voluntary workcamps, media productions, music production, youth and cultural exchanges, and networking with many global youth and international voluntary service networks and platforms.
we can train any partner that wishes to enter any of these domains and ready to organize trainings, provide geopolitical visits to Palestine.
We stive to develop our culture and arts capacities through establishing new partnerships and joined actions.