Title:
UNRWA 2023 Emergency Appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Agreement Number:
7448510 P009528010
Agreement Value:
$3,000,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 28, 2023 - Dec 31, 2028
Description:
This project provides support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East's (UNRWA) 2023 Emergency Appeal for the West Bank and Gaza. Funding contributes to: (1) providing emergency food assistance to over 1.3 million Palestinian refugees; (2) providing cash for work economic opportunities to approximately 46,000 individuals to alleviate abject poverty; (3) covering the hospitalization needs and provide critical medications to poor Palestine refugees who cannot afford care; (4) basic education and back-to-school supplies to elementary and preparatory school students (including students with disabilities); (5) school psychosocial counsellors across all UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip and mental health and psychosocial support counselling to vulnerable refugees (including women of reproductive age, children, older persons and persons with disabilities); (6) shelter repair; (7) ensuring that safe complaint and feedback channels are accessible and known to the refugee population, including complaints related to serious misconduct and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA); (8) improved sanitation and hygiene, flood prevention and mitigation, and (9) urgent WASH facility upgrades.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
Support to UNRWA will contribute to meeting the immediate humanitarian and protection needs of
Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. Specifically, funding would contribute to the following:
emergency food assistance; cash-for-work opportunities; emergency health services and provision of critical
medications; basic education and back-to-school supplies for students (including those with disabilities);
access to mental health and psychosocial support counselling (including women of reproductive age,
children, older persons and persons with disabilities); shelter repair; accessible complaint and feedback
channels to report complaints related to serious misconduct and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA);
improved sanitation and hygiene, flood prevention and mitigation, and urgent WASH facility upgrades.
Reference Number:
064-2024-2025-Q2-00497
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Operating Name:
UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Recipient's Legal Name:
UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Program:
International Development Assistance Program
Program Purpose:
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.