- To secure and maintain the involvement of the targeted local and national authorities throughout and after the course of project implementation.
- To establish an effective participatory process that ensures a representative
participation of the communities' members with the targeted local and national authorities in the community visioning process.
- To assess the communities' environmental and socioeconomic conditions as well as the institutional arrangements, structures and practices.
- To establish a GIS based information system and reinforce the technical capacities of the selected municipalities and rural councils in GIS, database management and environmental monitoring.
- To formulate shared community vision statements that declare the communities' visions for more sustainable communities and to set sustainability goals, targets and actions.
- To develop local sustainability action strategies "Local Agendas 21" based on the baseline community profiles and the outcomes of the community visioning process.
- To transfer the gained knowledge to other local authorities in the West Bank and encourage them to carry out similar sustainability initiatives.
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