A robust, mutually supportive, and productive Palestinian society which provides a dignified life to all households and individuals and releases their energies and guarantees their rights, equality, justice, partnership, inclusion and integration.
The Ministry of Social Development (MOSD) aims to provide and coordinate the provision of integrated protection and social development services to protect poor and marginalized persons; as well as providing care to them and integrating and empowering them in partnership and cooperation with governmental organizations, NGOs, and the private sector. This is done through the Case Management methodology and enhancement of local community alternatives.
Strategic Objective 1: Reduction of poverty on all levels.
Strategic Objective 2: Effective national and local measures for protecting poor and vulnerable men and women, including the elimination of all forms of marginalization, violence, exclusion, shocks, trauma, and disasters within the Palestinian society.
Strategic Objective 3: Strengthen the standards of governance, integrity, and transparency
Citizen Budget
a simplified document of the general budget Ministry of Education. Expressed in numbers, figures and graphs, it summarizes the key expenditure policies, approaches and priorities of the Ministry for the upcoming year. The budget enables citizens to become familiarized with the distribution of expenses among different programs and items in the education sector and consequently, to monitor governmental expenditures on education.
Operational costs
the necessary expenditures for the operation of the public institution, i.e. the Ministry (Electricity, water, fuel, travel, etc.)
Developmental expenditures
are expenditures which have a nature that is different from current expenditures in terms of their useful life and the return from expenditures, and are financed by the PA budget and donors.
Capital expenditures
what the government [Ministry] spends on the possession of capital assets (buildings, land, equipment, vehicles, etc.)
Current expenditures
This includes salaries and wages, raises, operational and referral expenditures of the ministry, public institutions and the other executive bodies of the State of Palestine
Program for employees not distributed within programs
a special program for employees in the Gaza Strip
Gender-responsive budget
A gender-responsive budget is considered a tool for financial planning with economic and social dimensions, which helps the government to integrate gender in the preparation and implementation of the public budget. This is to ensure that available financial resources are allocated in a just manner and aimed at eradicating discrimination on the basis of gender in regards to government services and in a way that meets the specific needs of men, women, girls, boys and marginalized social sectors.