A Closing Ceremony of the project Entitled Hebron Village Profiles and Azahar Program Needs assessme

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A Closing Ceremony of the project Entitled
Hebron Village Profiles and Azahar Program
Needs assessment (Water-Environment
Agriculture) Applied Research Institute
Jerusalem (ARIJ)29/7/2009
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Location and Borders of Hebron Governorate
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Facts about the Hebron Governorate

• The Hebron Governorate is the largest Governorate
  in the West Bank in terms of size and population
  with approximately 552,146 persons.
• Its area before the 1948 war was 2076 km2 and
  when the 1949 Armistice line was drawn it lost
  about 51 of its area.
• Currently, the Hebron governorate's area is about
  1067 km2, which is nearly 19 of the West Bank
  total area.
• There are 182 Palestinian built-up areas in the
  Hebron Governorate of which 17 localities are
  municipalities (compared with only 4
  municipalities in the year 1994).
• According to the PCBS classification for the
  types of the Palestinian communities and the 2007
  census, about 85.3 of the population in the
  Hebron Governorate live in urban areas, 12.1 of
  the populations live in rural areas (While in the
  year 1994 42 of the Palestinian communities were
  rural classified as rural areas) and 2.6 of the
  populations live in refugee camps.
• The Palestinian built-up areas comprise 7.9 of
  the total area of the Hebron Governorate compared
  with 3.6 in the year 1994.
• In 2008, the agricultural sector ranked first in
  the number of working persons in Hebron
  Governorate with 21.7, then quarrying and
  manufacturing with 18.8.

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• Up to 36 of the Palestinians in Bethlehem and
  Hebron Governorates are suffering from poverty
  and hardship.
• In the year 2008, the unemployment rate reached
  25.9 of total working force in Hebron
  Governorate compared with 10 in the year 1999.
• The WFP Food Security survey in the year 2008,
  estimated that 32 households are food insecure
  and another 12.1 are vulnerable of becoming food
  insecure in the Hebron Governorate compare with
  21.5 and 10.1 for the West Bank, respectively.
• The year 2007/08 witnessed lower rainfall than
  usual and it was drought year as only 321.4 mm of
  rainfall was received which formed 67.9 (473.4
  mm/year) of the average annual rainfall.
• 22.6 of the formal employees of Hebron
  Governorate in the year 2008 were employed in
  agricultural sector compared with 11.0 in the
  year 2000.
• 30.4 of the Hebron people are classified as
  poorest compared with 19.5 of the West Bank
  people.
• Currently, there are almost 14,949 dunums of
  forested areas in the Hebron Governorate,
  comprising 22 percent of the total forest area in
  the West Bank.

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• Currently, 17 of the total population in the
  Hebron Governorate is not connected to the water
  network. These rely entirely on cisterns and
  water tankers for their domestic water uses.
• Hebron Governorate ranked first in facing real
  water deficit in its allocated water budget among
  all the West Bank Governorates with 13.31
  Million cubic meters in the year 2007.
• The average of water supply in Hebron Governorate
  does not exceed 84 litters per capita per day
  compared with WHO recommendations with a minimum
  quantity of 100 liters of fresh water/capita/day.
  
• water quality in the majority of communities in
  Hebron Governorate are suffering from water born
  diseases.
• The sewage network serves approximately 27 of
  the Hebron Governorate population, where the
  remaining population uses cesspits and open
  channels for waste water collection.
• Nearly 67 of the solid waste is collected in the
  Hebron Governorate and dumped in 17 open and
  uncontrolled dumping sites, while the remaining
  33 of the solid waste is dumped and burned on
  road sides and vacant lands.

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Geopolitical status

• Under the signed agreement in 1995, the Hebron
  Governorate was fragmented to areas (A24),
  (B22) and (C48), in addition to 6 as a
  nature reserve area.
• In January of 1997, Israel and the Palestinian
  Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the Hebron
  protocol, which divided the city of Hebron into 2
  parts H1 and H2.
• The area identified as H2 covers approximately
  20 of the municipal boundary in the city of
  Hebron.
• Palestinians who live within the H2 area are
  required to register with the Israeli Army to
  access their homes.
• Due to Israeli restrictions, less than 50 of the
  land in the Hebron Governorate is open to the
  Palestinian farmers for utilization.

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Geopolitical classifications Segregation Wall
Route in Hebron Governorate
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Israeli Settlements and Outposts

• There are 28 Israeli settlements built in the
  Hebron governorate all of which have a total
  master plan area of 59.2 km2 (5.5 of the total
  area of the Hebron Governorate). With 17,408
  settlers
• In the years between 1996 and 2005, the Israeli
  settlers has established 44 locations in Hebron
  Governorate that came to be known as Israeli
  settlement outposts.

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Israeli Segregation Wall

• The Israeli Segregation Wall in the Hebron
  Governorate has the total length of 130 km
  (excluding parts of the eastern wall route).
• About 93 km of the route of the Wall have been
  completed, while the remaining 51 km is in the
  planning phase.
• The over all area of land devastated or isolated
  behind the Segregation Wall is 121 km2 (11.3 of
  the total area of Hebron Governorate).
• Of the total Isolated area by the Segregation
  wall of the Hebron Governorate land 80,954 are
  agricultural lands.

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• Israeli Checkpoints and Bypass Roads
• Prior to the year 2000, there were no checkpoints
  of any kind in the Hebron Governorate.
• The obstructions started to build-up over the
  past nine years to reach a record of 308 (out of
  total 669 in the West Bank) different forms of
  obstructions in 2008.
• The bypass roads network of 150 km in the Hebron
  Governorate divides it into six separate
  entities.
• Land Confiscation and Trees Uprooting
• Since the year 2001 the Israeli Occupation
  Authorities has confiscated 37,549 dunums form
  the Hebron Governorate and uprooted 101,706
  trees.

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Israeli Settlements, Outposts, and Bypass Roads
in Hebron Governorate, 2008
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Project Activities

• 1.2.1. Data Collection
• The British Mandate divisions were chosen for
  this study, since they are more suitable than the
  Israeli divisions, and they fit more into the
  Palestinian context.
• According to the British Mandate of Palestine,
  Hebron Governorate was divided into 20 main
  administrative boundaries.
• These 20 boundaries were classified into three
  clusters Northern Hebron Cluster, Central Hebron
  Cluster, and Southern Hebron Cluster.

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British Mandate Administrative Boundaries for
Hebron Governorate by Cluster
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Data Analysis

• A community questionnaire was developed and
  filled by locality officials across the
  governorate under the supervision of the project
  specialists.
• The data provided in the questionnaire, as well
  as other data from the Palestinian Central Bureau
  of Statistics (PCBS), the Ministry of Agriculture
  (MoA), the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the
  Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOHE)
  were analyzed and put together in one village
  profile, which includes data about Demography,
  History, Education, Economy, Natural Resources,
  Agriculture, Infrastructure, Institutions and
  Services.
• ARIJ GIS unit developed the explanatory maps for
  each locality.
• Each community profile contains 3 maps
• a location map,
• an information map, and
• a land use/land cover map.

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Taffuh Location Map
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Taffuh Land use/Land cover map
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Taffuh Main Locations Map
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Beit Amra Location Map
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Beit Amra Land use/Land cover map
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Beit Amra Main Locations Map
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• 90 locality profiles were developed, which
  include all major and minor localities in Hebron
  Governorate. In addition, each profile contains a
  list of each locality's developmental needs and
  priorities. This book contains fact-sheets about
  these localities the complete profiles are
  available on the internet.
• Each village profile contains the following
  items
• Location and Physical Characteristics
• History
• Demography and Population
• Economy
• Education
• Health Status
• Religious and Archeological Sites
• Institutions and Services
• Infrastructure and Natural Resources
• Agricultural Sector
• Impact of the Israeli Occupation
• Locality Development Priorities and Needs

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Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) Workshops

• Several meetings, interviews and focus groups
  were conducted with farmers, local authorities
  and active institutions in the area in order to
  do a collective analysis, upon which all
  development plans will be based.
• The aim of the Participatory Rapid Appraisal
  (PRA) was to learn from the communities and the
  institutions working for these communities about
  their knowledge, attitudes and practices
  concerning agriculture and the management of
  their environment and natural resources, and to
  enable local people to assess these issues, and
  make their own plans to address them.
• Six PRA workshops took place in the Joint Service
  Councils Halhul, Dura, Yatta, and Sa'ir and in
  the Municipality of Adh Dhahiriya. The collected
  data was documented, analyzed and several
  developmental plans and projects were formulated.

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Communities Developmental Needs were assessed in
a participatory approach with local institutions
in the targeted localities
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A List of proposed Developmental projects in the
fields of Agriculture, water and Environment
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Internet Database

• The Computer and Information Technology (IT) unit
  in ARIJ developed a database for the locality
  profiles in both languages Arabic and English.
• All data was posted on the internet in a well
  organized and comprehensive database easy to
  navigate and accessible to all. The profiles,
  maps, and factsheets for every locality can be
  found at the following website

http//proxy.arij.org/vprofile/
Or through visiting ARIJ Website
http//www.arij.org
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Thank You