project on dialogue within the Palestinian society is carried in Palestine through a network consortium among Civil Society Organizations; CIVITAS is a member of the project Steering Committee that provides the members with necessary training on dialogue concepts.The overall objective of this project is to achieve an internal dialogue on the challenges of the Palestinian Society, across the borders of the different political groupings in Palestine. The objective is also to expose the concept of dialogue to abroad target group as a means to build a solid foundation for an internal dialogue. Project consists of two separate parts, relating to two different aspects of supporting a dialogue within the Palestinian Society. One part mainly has a focus on policy matters, where the main activities are roundtable meetings that gather representatives from different categories in the society for discussions on the challenges that the Palestinian society as a whole face today. The second part of the project focuses on strengthening the culture of dialogue amongst ordinary citizens within the Palestinian Society through training and seminars, based on the network of civil society organizations that is already established through the ongoing work of the Olof center with partner organizations of the Project Steering Committee.

Civitas Institute has teamed up with Swedish Broderskap through the support of the Olof Palme and funding from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) to carry an initiative for the "capacity building" of the Palestinian NGO's in Gaza; the project is part of a long-term program that is carried in partnership between Civitas & Broderskap to empower these NGO's to improve their performances and outputs qualitatively to serve youth communities in Gaza to enhance their role in Palestinian life. The project adopted training that met the priorities of the targeted beneficiaries to help them improving their self-development after a 6-months training program in topics that included role of youth in the development of civil society, leadership and management skills, how to meet the needs of beneficiaries better, gender balance and equity within NGO's, project design & project cycle, and proposal writing. The project targeted 45 beneficiaries who represented 15 NGO's in Gaza.