Our Promises

IRW is committed to the international humanitarian commitments and Core Humanitarian Standards drawing on our Gender Justice policy, Child Protection policy, Inclusivity and Conflict Sensitivity experiences and practice. Islamic Relief ensures its work has the greatest positive impact on the lives of all women, men, girls and boys of all ages and abilities whom we serve. We will also make an active effort to engage minority communities equitably. To achieve this IRPAL will be mobilizing resources, building partnerships, and developing local capacity to enable communities to mitigate the effect of disasters/ conflict and promote integrated development and environmental custodianship.

We understand the need to continue to strengthen the inclusivity and sensitivity of the humanitarian programming in some of the most fragile regions of the world. So that, as a part of the big Islamic Relief family, IRPAL has developed projects and programs that aim at improving the ability of our staff to adhere to sectoral best practice on quality such as conflict sensitivity, gender sensitivity, GBV, child protection and inclusion.

Gender Justice

IRPAL is committed to achieve its goals in maintaining dignity of all people via eliminating poverty. To achieve this, IRPAL will work on enhancing justice, and equity and stressing the equal importance of the roles of both men and women, and boys and girls.

Moving towards a gender-equal society is becoming a pressing need. The task of achieving a gender just community involve profound institutional change as well as changes to the everyday life of the community. These changes support achieving holistic well-being and fulfillment of human potential.

IRPAL intends to integrate gender justice prospects into all the policies, procedures and tasks to ensure equitable impact, and effective access, participation, recognition and voice of both males and females.

For more information on Islamic Relief’s work on gender justice, including details and summaries of the events, follow the latest updates on our IRW dedicated Gender Justice page.

Protection & Inclusion

IRPAL has a strict commitment towards achieving protection and real inclusion of older people and people with disability in all our interventions especially during crises. IRPAL stresses the importance of the role that each and every member of the community can play.

It is significant that everybody in the community realize their opportunities and potentials. IRPAL pays great efforts in identifying these people and assessing their needs to be able to insure safe, equitable and meaningful access to our services in the right times. Also, IRPAL believes in the great importance of their active participation in making the decisions that affect their lives.

Campaigning for Change

1- Environmental Custodianship

One of IRPAL main commitments towards our people and community is making the Gaza Strip a better living place for them. We believe that tacking care of our environment is the pivot step to be achieved in the way to achieve this commitment.

Islamic Relief does a tremendous effort to spread an environmentally friendly culture based on increasing the environmental custodianship awareness at different levels starting with children at their kindergartens and continues to all other different community events and occasions. several environmental initiatives are being implemented and numerous efforts of other players are brought together to stress the importunate of making our land a much beautiful and friendly place.

2- TVET

The current deteriorated conditions in the Gaza Strip along the past years left behind more than 200,000 jobless university graduates which created a whole generation of desperate, frustrated and unproductive youth. These people are trying to cope with their conditions in different ways however some of the coping mechanisms are deepening and worsening their suffering.

Islamic Relief is paying a great attention and exerts extensive efforts to spreading the culture of TVET education amongst the youth so as to decrease numbers of unemployed youth, throughout creating new opportunities for leading a dignified life. These efforts involve various awareness campaigns in addition to the excreted efforts to improve the TVIT education environment in the Gaza Strip working on both the physical improvement and soft component levels.

Assessing and analyzing the labor market needs in the Gaza strip in the current deteriorated conditions, youth will eventually earn their living through joining and receiving vocational education.