{"id":98998,"date":"2022-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13282\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:00:00","slug":"13282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13282","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Says It Faces $100m Funding Shortage for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is entering a \u201cdanger zone\u201ddue to a $100 million budget shortage for 2022, according to the agency’s spokesperson.<\/span><\/p>\n

UNRWA Spokesperson Tamara Al Rifai told The Jordan Times that UNRWA’s annual core budget for programmes like health, education and social protection is $817 million for 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now, between what UNRWA has already received and what is expected to be received, including the amounts which were announced at the pledging conference in New York last week, we expect a shortage of more than $100 million this year,\u201dRifai said.<\/span><\/p>\n

While donors pledged about $160 million for UNRWA during the pledging conference in New York last week, Rifai warned that if the required funds are not raised, it will be very difficult to maintain all the services for Palestinian refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN member states who gathered at the UNRWA pledging conference recognised that UNRWA is irreplaceable and that services should not and cannot be interrupted,\u201dshe added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rifai said that UNRWA is calling for funding and financial resources that are equal to the political recognition the agency receives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPolitical support is huge but we need matching funding,\u201dRifai continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to UNRWA, the organisation still needs over $100 million to support education for more than half a million children, to offer primary healthcare for around two million people and to provide emergency cash assistance to the poorest refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said during a press conference on Thursday that the pledges will enable UNRWA to run its operations through September.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know if we will get the necessary cash to allow us to pay the salaries after the month of September,\u201dhe said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in an early warning mode,\u201dLazzarini said.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to avoid a situation where UNRWA is pushed to cross the tipping point, because if we cross the tipping point that means 28,000 teachers, health workers, nurses, doctors, engineers, cannot be paid,\u201dhe added. The agency, officially known as the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, currently helps some 5.6 million Palestine refugees and their descendants in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria as well as in West Bank and Gaza, by providing education, primary health, and social protection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is entering a \u201cdanger zone\u201ddue to a $100 million budget shortage for 2022, according to the agency’s spokesperson. UNRWA Spokesperson Tamara Al Rifai told The Jordan Times that UNRWA’s annual core budget for programmes like health, education and social protection is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}