Project title:Tempory Implementation Mechanism

Sector: Post-Crisis

Overall term: 05/2006 - 09/2008

Financial Instrument: MEDA and ENPI

Budget: €1.900.000

Detailed project description: At the end of June 2006, the European Commission and member States established the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) to provide direct support to the Palestinian population and bypassing the Hamas Government.
The TIM, renewed every 3 months, addressed the basic social needs of the Palestinian population and focused on delivering aid to the poorest Palestinians.
Following the establishment of the interim government, TIM implementation support was modified progressively to work directly with the Palestinian administration. Nevertheless, despite the real success of TIM in delivering essential social and financial support, its scope was much too limited to support the Palestinian recovery.
To help the PA administration to meet the difficult challenges which were set out in the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP), a new mechanism was put in place incorporating the flexibility and diversified instruments required to support the PRDP.
From 2008, PEGASE, the new European Mechanism which replaced TIM, provided support to the three year Palestinian Reform and Development Plan. It was fully aligned with the main axes of the PRDP:

• Governance,
• Social Development,
• Economic and Private sector Development and
• Public Infrastructure Development.