The World Bank PNGO Project website states that it aims to "strengthen NGOs' capacity to deliver sustainable services to poor and marginalized Palestinians, while supporting the overall professional, and strategic development of the Palestinian NGO sector".

Split into two phases, the World Bank's PNGO and PNGO II projects will together have provided US$41.9m for Palestinian NGOs by June 2006. However, PNGO II also funds the Palestinian NGO portal that provides a platform for extremist political NGOs such as PCHR, Al Haq, the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights and ARIJ; and has been a source of funding for Al Mezan, which was involved in its development.

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