The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; ) is a

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in

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in the

West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

. ARIJ is actively working on research projects in the fields of management of natural resources,

water management Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. These resources can be either freshwater from natural sources, or water produced artificia ...

, sustainable agriculture and political dynamics of development in the

Palestinian Territories The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former Mandate for Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine ...

Projects

POICA

Together with the Land Research Center (LRC), ARIJ runs a joint project named 'POICA', ''Eye on Palestine–Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian Territories''. The project, funded by the

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, inspects and scrutinizes Israeli colonizing activities in the West Bank and Gaza, and disseminates the related information to policy makers in the European countries and to the general public.

Sustainable waste treatment

In 2011 ARIJ, along with the TTZ Bremerhaven, the

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, and the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ITM) started a project with the title of "Sustainable Treatment and Valorization of Olive Mill Waste in Palestine". The project is funded by the

under the

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Funders

* Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation

Criticism

According to

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, the ARIJ has an anti-Israel policy that includes support for BDS.

References

External links

''ARIJ website''

''POICA website''

''Sustainable Treatment and Valorization of Olive Mill Waste in Palestine''
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