{"id":200160,"date":"2010-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=200160"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:55:18","slug":"auto-insert-200160","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-200160\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank grants PA additional $3 million in social service support – World Bank press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Bank Grants Palestinian Authority Additional $3 Million in Social Service Support<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Press Release No: <\/strong>2011\/144\/MNA<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Contacts:<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>
\nIn Washington:<\/i><\/span> <\/span>Hafed Al-Ghwell, (202) 473-8930,<\/span> <\/span>halghwell@worldbank.org<\/u><\/a>; <\/span>
\nIn West Bank and Gaza:<\/i><\/span> <\/span>Mary Koussa, (972) 2 2366500,<\/span> <\/span>mkoussa@worldbank.org<\/u><\/a> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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WASHINGTON, October 21, 2010<\/strong> — The World Bank Board of Directors approved today an additional grant of US$3 million to support the delivery of essential social services to the Palestinian people through its Third Emergency Services Support Program (ESSP III). The program, now totaling US$18 million, is designed to assist the Palestinian Authority in sustaining the delivery of education, health and social services to the Palestinian population.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“By covering operating costs, this program has helped the Palestinian Authority sustain essential social service delivery,”<\/i><\/span> <\/span>said <\/span>Eileen Murray<\/strong><\/span>, <\/span>World Bank Lead Operations Officer for the West Bank and Gaza<\/strong><\/span>. <\/span>“Assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the Palestinian population — marginalized youth, unskilled laborers, elderly indigents, as well as the many school and university students dependent on public education — has remained largely uninterrupted,<\/i><\/span> <\/span>even under the most extreme conditions of escalated conflict.”<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Items financed by the<\/span> <\/span>ESSP over the previous fiscal year included: fuel, utilities and stationery for the education system; recurrent costs for the health sector and contracting of specialized services in the health system; and the operation of the Ministry of Social Affairs’ social care centers, rehabilitation services for the disabled, training for youth and programs for the elderly.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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“Most of our work here focuses on the twin pre-conditions for the establishment of a viable Palestinian State: sustainable economic growth and robust institutions of state and civil society,”<\/i> said Mariam Sherman, World Bank Country Director for West Bank and Gaza.<\/strong> “We must not forget, however, that it is the resilience of Palestinian society that makes these long-term goals achievable. Therefore, programs designed to preserve valuable social and human capital in the short-term are critical to the state-building effort.”<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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The<\/span> <\/span>ESSP is financed through the World Bank’s Trust Fund for Wes<\/span>t Bank and Gaza. In addition, the Bank administers the Emergency Services Support Multi-Donor Trust Fund, which provides similar budget support for non-salary recurrent expenditures.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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For more information, please visit:<\/span> <\/span>www.worldbank.org\/ps<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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For more information, please visit the <\/span>Projects<\/u><\/a> website.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Bank Grants Palestinian Authority Additional $3 Million in Social Service Support Press Release No: 2011\/144\/MNA Contacts:  In Washington: Hafed Al-Ghwell, (202) 473-8930, halghwell@worldbank.org;  In West Bank and Gaza: Mary Koussa, (972) 2 2366500, mkoussa@worldbank.org    WASHINGTON, October 21, 2010 — The World Bank Board of Directors approved today an additional grant of US$3 million to support the delivery of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1957],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1937],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-200160","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-world-bank","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-economic-issues","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/200160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/200160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=200160"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=200160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}