Program overview
Objectives
Who can benefit
Application requirements
Where to apply

E-mail :iap@paltrade.org

The Internship Assistance Project comes as critical tool in cooperation with USAID to fulfill one of PalTrade's key goals of fostering international business practices and standards among professionals, firms and business organizations in Palestine. This project's main objective is to improve enterprise competitiveness through promoting best employment practices based on employee qualifications and job specifications.

Program overview:

The program had started its pilot phase in the year 2002 and due to its outstanding success and its vital role is now entering the second phase aiming to locate training opportunities to university graduates in Palestine based on identified private sector needs. The program aims to support private sector companies and institutions through a 50% cost-sharing scheme for each of the six month cycle for a total of three cycles. This project simultaneously creates opportunities for graduates to integrate in practical work environment through creating direct contact between trainees and employers, which ultimately should increases efficiency and effectiveness of private firms.

Objectives:

• Contributing to a lower training costs as means of decreasing the unemployment rates among new graduates.

• Enhance firm's competitiveness through maximum utilization and retention of existing qualified graduates within companies' operational framework.

• Enhance individual's (new graduates) understanding of work place environments, ethics and practical work place experience.

• Gain practical insight of private sector's assessment and needs from academic outputs and needed specializations.

Who can benefit:

University Graduates who:

• Are holding bachelor degrees.

• Graduated within the last two years of application submissions.

• Palestinian Citizens.

• Are Unemployed.

Private sector firms (1st priority):

• Must be legally registered entities.

• Must be ready to cover 50% of the intern's monthly training fees.

• Are committed to provide on-the-job training experience within a conductive and healthy working environment that will add to the development of the intern.

Private sector Institutions (2nd priority): 

whose application requirements are the same as private sector companies above.

Information:

Private sector firms and institutions seeking more information and applications for this project can directly contact Paltrade or contact designated Chambers of Commerce in each of the following cities:

• Nablus
  Mr. Naser Shaheen
  Tel: 09-2380335
  Fax: 09-2377605

• Jenin
  Mr. Samer Abu Zeneh
  Tel:04-2501107
  Fax: 04-2503388

• Qalqilya
  Ms. Reham Ayaash
  Tel: 09-2940164
  Fax: 09-2940164

• Jerusalem
  Ms. Na'ela Jowayles
  Tel: 02-2344923
  Fax: 02-2344914

• Ramallah
  Mr. Aymen Almimi
  Tel: 02-2955052
  Fax: 02-2984691

• Jericho
  Ms. Nesrin Ajalin
  Tel:02-2323313
  Fax :02-2322394

• Bethlehem
  Mr. Salim Jarad
  Tel: 02-2742742
  Fax: 02-2764402

• Hebron
  Mr. Majdi Alkhatib
  Tel: 02-2228218
  Fax: 02-2227490

• Gaza 

Graduates can contact Paltrade in addition to the following universities 

• Bir Zeit University
  Mr. Somayda' Abaas
  Tel: 02-2982131 

• Bethlehem University
  Dr. Hind Salman
  Tel: 02-2745559

• American University, Jenin
  Dr. Zakaria Haj-Hamad
  Tel: 04-2510801

• Islamic University & Al-Azahar University, Gaza
  

Applications:

Companies must fill out and submit the designation applications form with the following enclosures:

• A list of its current employees.

• Brochure if available.

Graduates must fill out and submit the designation applications form with the following enclosures:

• A copy of the university transcript.

• A copy of Palestinian Identification Card.

 Follow-up on applications submitted is directly through Paltrade.

E-mail :iap@paltrade.org