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Household coping strategies in the West BankThis project is a follow-up of earlier empirical studies of how Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip cope with the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fafo’s previous work offer a rich description of and insight into how Palestinians have adapted to a rapidly-changing socio-political and economic landscape, whilst land confiscation, settlement expansion and other colonizing practices continue. In the context of the lengthy period of sustained socio-economic and political pressure on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the growing numbers of West Bank households which have fallen below the poverty line (56% as per UNDP, 2007), this project looked more closely at how Palestinians adapt at the household level and specifically at the gender differences within households, as well as how different coping strategies affect the household resource base in terms of sustainability. In addition to literature from the Middle East which views household coping strategies as forms of resistance during times of crisis, the principal report from the project draws on one hundred individual and group interviews in five communities in the West Bank carried out in October and November 2008 and May 2009. The research was financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. OutputsLaura E. Mitchell (2009) Making Ends Meet: Gender and Household Coping Strategies in the West Bank. Fafo-report 2009:48. Executive summary (English) Executive summary (Arabic)
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