This program aims at providing job opportunities for unemployed workers, women and men, and to contribute in reducing the impact of unemployment and poverty on Palestinian families. Job opportunities are provided in local Palestinian enterprises and factories. Through an agreement with the owners of selected enterprises, employers cover fifty percent of the workers’ salaries, while the Center’s program covers the other fifty percent for a limited period. In addition, owners of enterprises benefiting from this program commit themselves to try to continue employing the workers after the end of each employment phase.

This program was launched by DWRC in 2001 as a response to massive unemployment among the Palestinian labor force after the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on 28 September 2000 due to Israeli military closures and economic measures aiming at preventing Palestinian workers from working in the Israeli labor market and disrupting the Palestinian economy, with its negative consequences on the local labor market.