  {"id":194044,"date":"2005-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194044"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:43:58","slug":"auto-insert-194044","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194044\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank approves water project for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip &#8211; WB press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"795px\" style=\"text-align:center;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"795\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/p>\n<p 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valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>West Bank and Gaza: Gaza Emergency Water Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#6699cc\" colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" style=\"text-align:left;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" 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style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>WASHINGTON, &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The following project was approved today by the World Bank&#8217;s Board of Executive Directors:<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>IDA GRANT AMOUNT:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">$20 million<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>PROJECT DESCRIPTION:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The development objectives of the project are: i) To develop a sustainable institutional structure of the water and wastewater sector in the Gaza Strip by supporting the functional establishment of a Coastal Water Utility under the ownership of the local governments representing those communities as well as by enhancing and deepening the involvement of the private sector, and strengthening the regulatory and institutional capacity of the Palestinian Water Authority.&#160; ii) To continue improving the water and sanitation services by rehabilitation, upgrading and expansion of the existing systems and facilities.&#160; <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>For more information, please call Sereen Juma&#160; at (202) 473-7199, or e-mail<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:sjuma@worldbank.org\" style=\"color:#204e84;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i><u>sjuma@worldbank.org<\/u><\/i><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>&nbsp;For project information documents, please visit:<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/external\/projects\/main?pagePK=104231&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P065920\" style=\"color:#606420;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 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