The Palestinian Experience with RIA

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The Palestinian Experience with RIA

• A Training for civil society workers in the
• Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Presented by Munir Nuseibah, LL.M
• Lecturer, The faculty of law
• Al-Quds University
• Occupied Palestine

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Palestine is a fertile land for change

• Active civil society
• Example Youth Guardianship Law????? ?????
  ?????? later Youth Law????? ??????
• Problems
• Ex volunteers needing a permit from the youth
  ministry and municipality to volunteer!!!
• Activism

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Legislation in PalestineCopy-Paste

• Governmental employees law????? ?????? ???????
• Minimum salaries for governmental employees
• Labor Law ????? ????? ???????
• Minimum wages
• A work accident includes car accidents
• Safety measures
• Until today, many of the laws articles are not
  being implemented or enforced

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Cant implement it?

• RULE OF LAW!
• ????? ???????!

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DAI Training in PalestinePhase I

• Target Group Civil Society in the West Bank and
  Gaza NGOs and Universities a say in the
  legislative process
• A skilled trainer with practical experience
  interactive training program
• Questionnaire what do you know about RIA?
• The participants had to prepare, before the
  trainer arrived, an example of a law that failed

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Phase IRIA Case Study A Palestinian Welfare
Legislation

• Each member of the trainees participating in an
  RIA study
• Every step in the forming of the RIA study took
  sufficient time
• Main Learning points
• How to produce an RIA document
• The benefits of RIA

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Between Phase I Phase II

• 2 groups worked on 2 RIAs
• Ex. Free Medical Services to children over 3
  years old.
• Result
• To increase the age of Palestinians insured under
  health insurance from 3 years to eventually-
  reach 18
• first will cover the age group (4-7), the next
  phase will be from (8-12), and finally from
  (13-18).

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Phase II

• Revision of Case studies
• Role Play An RIA study with different
  stakeholders
• President of Palestine
• PLC members and president
• Prime Ministers Office
• Ministers offices
• Civil Society
• Media
• Private Sector Bodies
• Future of RIA in Palestine
• Presentations in couples

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Key learning points at Phase IIThe Power of RIA

• Using RIA as an advocacy tool
• Stakeholders contribution
• Knowing how to address each audience with the RIA

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Why RIA in Palestine, and the Arab Region?

• Scientific tool for building and reforming the
  Palestinian Legal System
• A Democratic tool Consideration of all society
  sectors and stakeholders. Impact assessment on
  Ethnic equality
• Impact assessment on Health
• Impact assessment on ------
• Not costly. Palestine has the capacity to start!
• No need for foreign Experts!
• Government closer to public important to consult
  non-governmental bodies
• Adaptable to any system

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How to start?

• Local Capacity Building
• Forming a small team with legal, economic, and
  other relevant experiences represented
• A pilot project

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Future of RIA in Palestine

• Further in-depth training
• Introductory training using existing experts
• Developing a Legislative Diploma course
• Developing a RIA Manual