Glossary

JLC Joint Liaison Committee [1994 – 2005]
[1994-2005]

The Joint Liaison Committee (JLC) was created in November 1994 to provide a forum for major donors, the Palestinian Authority and the Government of Israel to discuss policy issues and strategies and to promote stronger policy-level coordination. This Committee was chaired by the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and played a major role in monitoring the Tripartite Action Plan agreed between Palestinians, Israelis and the donor community. JLC meetings were discontinued in September 2000 and the JLC was dissolved in 2005.
Composition:

Chair: PA

Members: Norway, UNSCO, World Bank, EU, the United States, Japan and Israel, meeting with the Palestinian representatives to the LACC
Secretariat: Norway

JSWG Judiciary Sector Working Group

LACC Local Aid Coordination Committee [1994-2005]
The LACC comprised all donors and international agencies with a local presence in the West Bank and Gaza. It provided a forum for aid coordination, exchange of policy views and information on developments in the field. As a result of restructuring the aid management structure in the oPt in December 2005 the LACC was transformed into the Local Development Forum (LDF).

LACS Local Aid Coordination Secretariat

LDF Local Development Forum [see under Aid Coordination on www.ldf.ps]

MCR Ministerial Committee on Reform [Established by PA in June 2002 and adopted the “100-Days Plan”, the first of a series of PA Reform plans. In spring 2003, the MCR became a standing Cabinet Committee.]

MDLG SWG Municipal Development & Local Governance Sector Working Group

MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs [since 2003]

MoA Ministry of Agriculture

MoEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education

MoF Ministry of Finance

MoH Ministry of Health

MoI Ministry of Interior

MoJ Ministry of Justice

MoL Ministry of Labour

MoLG Ministry of Local Government

MoNE Ministry of National Economy

MOP Ministry of Planning [since 2003]

MoPAD Ministry of Planning and Administrative Development [since 2009]

MoPIC Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation [until 2003]

MoPWH Ministry of Public Works and Housing

MoSA Ministry of Social Affairs

MoT Ministry of Transport

MoTA Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

MoWA Ministry of Women's Affairs

MoYS Ministry of Youth and Sports

MSTF Micro and Small Finance Task Force

MTDP Medium Term Development Plan

MTEF Mid-Term Expenditure Framework

MWG Multilateral Working Group [see Oslo accords]

NGO Non Governmental Organisation

NIS New Israeli Shekel [Commonly used abbreviation for the official currency of the State of Israel. The ISO standard is ILS.]

NRC National Reform Committee The NRC was established in spring 2003 by the PA to include Palestinian civil society and the private sector in the reform debate. The NRC has been dormant since June 2005.

NRC Norwegian Refugee Council

NSU Negotiations Support Unit

OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

OECD Organisation for Economic Security and Development

OECD/DAC Organisation for Economic Security and Development/Development Assistance Committee

OoP Office of the President

oPt occupied Palestinian territory

OQR Office of the Quartet Representative

PA Palestinian Authority [also known as Palestinian National Authority]

PACS SWG Public Administration & Civil Service Sector Working Group

PARC Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee

PCBS Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

PDP Palestinian Development Plan

PECDAR Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction

PEGASE Mécanisme "Palestino - Européen de Gestion et d'Aide Socio-Economique” [since February 2008, replaced TIM, see EC]

PHG Palestinian Hydrology Group

PICCR Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights

PIF Palestinian Investment Fund

PLC Palestinian Legislative Council

PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation

PMA Palestine Monetary Authority

PMO Prime Minister's Office

PNA Palestinian National Authority [also known as Palestinian Authority (PA)]

PNGO Palestinian Non Governmental Organisations' Network

PPIP Palestinian Public Investment Programme

PRCS Palestinian Red Crescent Society

PRDP Palestinian Reform and Development Plan

PSDT SWG Private Sector Development & Trade Sector Working Group

PSE occupied Palestinian territory [International Organization for Standardization (ISO) code for the oPt. The 2-digit (Alpha-2) ISO 3166-1 code is PS. The numeric ISO 3166-1 code is 275. The top-level domain for the oPT is ps.]

PWA Palestine Water Authority

RC Resident Coordinator [see United Nations]

RCSU Reform Coordination Support Unit [Established in January 2003 to function as the Secretariat of the PA’s Ministerial Committee on Reform (MCR) and the National Reform committee (NRC).]

RSG Reform Support Group
[2002-2005]

[Established in July 2002 as a substructure of the Task Force on Palestinian Reform (TFPR) as donor bodies that interacted with Palestinian partners via a counterpart model. Seven RSGs were initially established:
Civil Society (coordinated by Norway), Elections (coordinated by the EC and the US), Financial Accountability (coordinated by the EC and the IMF), Judicial and Rule of Law Reform (coordinated by EC and the Netherlands), Market Economics (coordinated by the US and the World Bank), Local Government (coordinated by Japan), and Public Administration and Civil Service Reform (coordinated by Germany and initially the World Bank – later UK). In 2003 the RSG on Civil Society was dissolved and instead a RSG on Legislative (coordinated by UNSCO and Germany) was established.]

SDC Swiss Development Cooperation

SDHA SG Social Development and Humanitarian Assistance Strategy Group [renamed Social Development Strategy Group in 2008]

SDSG Social Development Strategy Group [renamed from the Social Development and Humanitarian Assistance Group in 2008]

SG Strategy Group [see under Aid Coordination on www.ldf.ps]

SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

SP SWG Social Protection Sector Working Group

SSWG Security Sector Working Group

STA Single Treasury Account

SWAP Sector-Wide Approach

SWG Sector Working Group The Sector Working Groups (SWGs) were created in 1995 as a sub-structure to the Local Aid Co-ordination Committee. The SWGs were intended to be used as a PA-donor forum where sectoral issues could be discussed and co-coordinated. In the original setup, the PA used to hold the chair, a lead donor in the sector would act as shepherd while the secretariat was run by one of the UN specialized agencies. After 1999, the SWG scope of activities was refocused to ensure convergence between the Palestinian Development Plan (PDP) and donor assistance and to give a wider role to the PA. As a result, the SWGs were regrouped to reflect the sectoral categorization used in the PDP (infrastructure, productive sector, social sector, institution building). In turn, these SWGs spawned numerous various sub-groups, each one under the responsibility of different PA line ministries and lead donors in the sector. The current formation of the SWGs reflects the structure of the aid coordination mechanism post November 2005.

TA Technical Assistance

TAP Tripartite Action Plan [Document brokered by the AHLC which sets out the respective commitments of the Palestinian Authority, the Government of Israel, and the donor community towards overcoming the constraints to development in the oPt.]

TATF Technical Assistance Trust Fund [see IFC]

TC Technical cooperation

TFPI Task Force on Project Implementation [see under Aid Coordination on www.ldf.ps]

TFPR Task Force for Palestinian Reform [2002 – 2005]
[2002-2005]

The TFPR was established in July 2002 as a temporary mechanism to monitor and support the PA’s internal reform process, and guide the international donor community in its support for the Palestinian reform agenda. It reported to the Quartet. Day-to-day activities of the TFPR had been delegated to Reform Support Groups (RSGs), composed of donor representatives working in the oPt.

As a result of revamping the aid management structure in the oPt in December 2005 the TFPR was integrated into the AHLC at the international level. On the local level its functions have been carried over to the Governance Strategy Group (GSG).

Composition:

Convener: Norway

Members: United States, EU [Presidency, EC, European Councils Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (EUSR)], Russia, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), Norway, Japan, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Secretariat: TFPR-Secretariat embedded in the LACC-Secretariat

TIM Temporary International Mechanism [see EU]

UN United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Program

UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund

UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNSCO The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process [see http://www.un.org/unsco]

USAID United States Agency for International Development

USSEMERS United States Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security

WB World Bank

WBG West Bank and Gaza

WFP World Food Programme [see link: http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?country=275]

WSWG Water & Sanitation Sector Working Group

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