The ‘European Joint Strategy (EJS) in Support to Palestine 2021-2024’ endorsed by European Development Partners (EDPs) provides a framework for the development cooperation partnership between the Europeans and the Palestinian Authority. The objectives of the EJS are to increase the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of European development cooperation to Palestine. The Result Oriented Framework (ROF) monitors its implementation.

The 2021 Annual Report reviewed the progress of the five pillars of the EJS (thirteen sectors and three main crosscutting themes). An annual policy dialogue meeting was held on 18 and 19 January 2023 with EDPs and the PA institutions to take stock of the progress, challenges and gaps of the sectors and review EDPs funded programmes and government’s reforms. The meeting was co-chaired by the Cabinet Secretariat - Amjed Ghanem, Secretary General of the Council of Ministers - responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the National Development Plan (NDP) and national sectors strategies, and the EUREP - Head of Cooperation, Ibrahim Laafia - entrusted with the overall coordination of the EJS. Officials from some twenty-one Palestinian ministries and institutions, including the Prime Minister Office and the Cabinet Secretariat, and thirteen EDPs participated.

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