Fostering Tenure Security And Resilience Of Palestinian Communities Through Spatial-Economic Planning Interventions In Area C

The majority of Area C remains inaccessible to large-scale Palestinian investment and economic enterprise, while greater and more far reaching progress for Palestinians in Area C is considered essential, including infrastructure and basic service expansion from Area A and B into Area C. The full economic potential can be unleashed only when access is assured for Palestinian activity in Area C within a coherent spatial planning approach that functionally link the statutory local outline plans in Area C to those in Area A and B, as inputs to the National Spatial Framework through non-statutory cluster and city-region plans with a focus on strategic development and spatial-economic considerations. The impact of the intervention will be an improvement of the resilience and tenure security of Palestinian communities in the Israeli occupied Area C of the West Bank through a wide-range of spatial-economic planning interventions that target more than 75 percent of the West Bank's Palestinian population and over 50 percent of the West Bank's mass area by the year 2020. 

Under this project, UN-Habitat will provide technical and logistical support to MoLG and its constituents, including the local Palestinian communities in Area C, who are effectively under the threat of forced displacement. Furthermore, UN-Habitat will provide high-level policy advice on how to consider alternatives to security of tenure based on global experience, especially for the Bedouin and herding communities living in Area C of the west Bank.