Partners for Sustainable Development

Partners for Sustainable Development (PSD) is a Palestinian nonprofit organization established in 2009 to equip Palestinian youth with the skills and knowledge required by an increasingly complex and demanding 21st century. Over the past ten years, PSD’s programs have unleashed the potential of communities by supporting their grass roots activities and social enterprises. Programmatic interventions implemented by PSD have focused on youth engagement in their communities through formal and informal education, ICT, and entrepreneurship. What we do: -Help youth develop 21st century skills and scale-up innovative solutions to some of societies’ greatest problems via training and mentoring -Work with trans-Mediterranean partners to stimulate exchange and dialogue, empower youth and women, and encourage media-literacy -Digitize the Palestinian curriculum and develop Arabic- language educational content -Distribute PSD’s flagship product, NETKETABi, preloaded with Arabic-language educational content to students in the West Bank -Create “Edu-tainment” games that complement the curriculum or address specific social issues -Develop and manage an online digital library of educational videos and study collections How we do it: By leveraging on public-private partnerships with ministries, educational institutions, private foundations, companies, and service providers By utilizing holistic approaches in program design and implementation that incorporate human-centered design, service learning and civic engagement, and learner centered pedagogy PSD’s main programmatic interventions are focused on three main pillars: educational content development, ICT, and youth empowerment.