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Box 140157 Amman 11814 - Jordan ^VopJO^pj Fax: (+972-8) 677 7707 UNRWA Headquarters Gaza 16 July 2002 To: Mr. Miles Stoby f: Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs enow and Conference services United Nations II JUL j 92002 :XEC!JTlV'L OFFICE From: iansen _QF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL Commissioner-General UNRWA HQ Gaza Subject: Page limits for reports originating in the Secretariat I should like to refer to the Secretary-General's memorandum of 25 April 2002 regarding the above subject. In view of the need for comprehensive information that the Agency has to submit to the General Assembly in my Annual Report, I should appreciate it if a waiver could be granted with respect to my Report. With kind regards. c/I'V Mr. Iqbal Riza Under -Secretary-General Chef de Cabinet United Nations New York Mr. Maher Nasser CUL/NY A/57/13 United Nations Report of the Commissioner- General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 1 July 200 MO June 2002. General Assembly Official Records Fifty-Lseventh Session Supplement No. 13 (A/57/13) Contents Chapter Paragraphs Page Abbreviations Letter of transmittal Letter dated 26 September 2002 from the Chairperson of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General of the Agency I. Introduction II. General developments in Agency programmes A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services D. Microfmance and microenterprise E. Peace Implementation Programme F. Projects G. Lebanon appeal H. Emergency appeals III. Financial matters A. Fund structure B. Budget, income and expenditure C. Extrabudgetary activities D. Current financial situation IV. Legal matters A. Agency staff. B. Agency services and premises C. Other matters V. Jordan A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services 1 VI. Lebanon A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services VII. Syria A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services VIII. West Bank A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services IX. Gaza Strip A. Education B. Health C. Relief and social services Annexes I. Statistical and financial information tables II. Pertinent records of the General Assembly and other United Nations bodies Abbreviations ACABQ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions CBO Community-based organization CRC Community rehabilitation centre EC European Community NGO non-governmental organization PA Palestinian Authority PIP Peace Implementation Programme PLO Palestine Liberation Organization RMTC Ramallah men's training centre (West Bank) RWTC Ramallah women's training centre (West Bank) SGL Solidarity-group lending SHC Special hardship case UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNSCO Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization WHO World Health Organization WPC Women's programme centre YAC Youth activities centre GTC Gaza training centre RMTC Ramallah men's training centre RWTC Ramallah women's training centre DTC Damascus training centre STC Siblin training centre VTC Vocational training centre WSTC Wadi Seer training centre ESF Educational science faculty Letter of transmittal XX September 2002 President of the General Assembly United Nations New York (Signed) Peter Hansen Commissioner-General United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Letter dated 26 September 2002 from the Chairperson of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General of the Agency (Signed) XX XX (France) Chairperson of the Advisory Commission Chapter I Introduction 1. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949. The Agency became operational on 1 May 1950 with its headquarters in Beirut, and began responding to immediate humanitarian needs of about 880,000 Palestine refugees in the region. Over the past five decades, the Agency has grown into one of the largest United Nations programme, employing over 22,000 staff members, including teachers, health workers, social workers and other service providers. The Agency operates some 900 facilities providing education, health, relief and social services, as well as a microfinance and microenterprise programme, for a growing population of refugees who now number over four million. The refugees are registered with UNRWA in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Some one-third of the refugees live in camps that are administered by the governmental authorities where they are located. A number of the Agency's installations are also located in the camps. The Agency's services are, for the most part, rendered directly to the beneficiaries, along with services provided by the public sector of the host authorities. While the Agency's services are funded directly from its budget, where appropriate and possible, refugees contribute to the cost of the services through co-payments, self-help schemes, voluntary efforts, participation fees and voluntary contributions. 2. The Agency's services for the refugees include the following broad categories: elementary and preparatory education; vocational and technical training; comprehensive primary health care, including family health; assistance towards hospitalization; environmental health services in refugee camps; relief assistance to needy households; and developmental social services for women, youth and persons with disabilities. The Agency has developed a successful microfinance and microenterprise programme which assists in developing the income-generating capacity and self-reliance of the refugees. In addition to its regular programme, the Agency undertakes a range of infrastructure projects to improve the living conditions of the refugees. 3. During the reporting period, the conditions of strife in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) continued with increasing intensity in a cycle of violence. Since February 2002, there was a major upsurge in the level of violence, characterized by a pattern that included suicide bombings by Palestinian militants in Israel and the oPt, causing heavy loss of life, and a massive armoured military offensive launched by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in the West Bank against Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, causing heavy loss of life and widespread damage and destruction of Palestinian property and infrastructure, including governmental institutions, residential buildings, refugee shelters, water and electricity supply systems, and sewage disposal systems. Included among buildings and equipment damaged and destroyed were UNRWA installations, such as schools, training centres, and health care facilities. Israeli forces also took over a number of UNRWA schools and used them as bases and centres for detention and interrogation of Palestinians. 4. By mid-April, the Israeli forces made partial withdrawals from some of the Palestinian cities and refugee camps, but this was followed by a number of incursions of shorter duration into the same areas. The pattern of attacks by Palestinian militants in Israel and in the oPt also continued. By the end of the reporting period, the Israeli authorities announced that their forces would enter Palestinian controlled areas (area A) and maintain an extended presence there for as long as it was operationally necessary. Thus, Israeli armoured forces entered seven of the major Palestinian cities in the West Bank, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilia, Ramallah and Tulkarem, and had effectively reoccupied them at the end of the reporting period. In these cities they imposed curfews, carried out searches and detained and arrested large numbers of Palestinians. A number of Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops in the operations. 5. The large scale military operations carried out by Israeli forces in the West Bank which included the imposition of curfews, closures, the creation of closed military zones and other measures, had a very adverse impact on the Agency's ability to carry out its humanitarian functions in support of the Palestine refugees. Movement of humanitarian goods, particularly in places where supplies of food, medicines, blood and other items were urgently needed, was often blocked, delayed or made very difficult. In a number of instances UNRWA vehicles and staff
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