{"id":206113,"date":"2015-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=206113"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:06:55","slug":"auto-insert-206113","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-206113\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland commits \u20ac4.5 million per year to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA for 2015-18 – ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FINLAND COMMITS EUR 4.5 MILLION PER YEAR TO ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA FOR 2015-2018<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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16 March 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finland has signed a new multi-year funding agreement that will see the long-term partner of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA contribute EUR 4.5 million (US$ 4.8 million) per year to the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA General Fund between 2015 and 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said: “Multi-year agreements, like the one signed with Finland, provide valued stability in an environment of financial and political uncertainty. I thank the government and people of Finland for their long standing and generous support for Palestine refugees, one that ensures that ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA can provide reliable and crucial health, education, relief and social services.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finland has been a long-standing supporter of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA, focusing its support on the Agency’s General Fund, while also contributing to Emergency Appeals. In 2014, Finland was among the Top 20 ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA donors, contributing US$ 8.9 million, including US$ 6 million towards the General Fund. This new multi-year agreement follows a previous agreement covering 2011-2014, which committed a baseline of EUR 3 million per year to the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA General Fund. While the EUR 3 million baseline in the previous agreement was topped up each year to reach EUR 4.5 million, ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA appreciates Finland’s commitment to a EUR 1.5 million increase in the annual baseline contribution.<\/p><\/div>\n

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BACKGRO±¬ÁÏÍøD INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, and microfinance.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Financial support to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA has not kept pace with an increased demand for services caused by growing numbers of registered refugees, expanding need, and deepening poverty. As a result, the Agency's General Fund (GF), supporting ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s core activities and 97 per cent reliant on voluntary contributions, has begun each year with a large projected deficit. Currently the deficit stands at US$ 100 million.<\/p><\/div>\n

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For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Christopher Gunness<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Spokesperson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mobile: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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+972 (0)54 240 2659<\/p><\/div>\n

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Office: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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+972 (0)2 589 0267<\/p><\/div>\n

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c.gunness@unrwa.org(link sends e-mail)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Sami Mshasha<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Chief of Communications & Arabic Language Spokesperson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mobile: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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+972 (0)54 216 8295<\/p><\/div>\n

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Office: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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+972 (0)2 589 0724<\/p><\/div>\n

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s.mshasha@unrwa.org<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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FINLAND COMMITS EUR 4.5 MILLION PER YEAR TO ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA FOR 2015-2018 16 March 2015 Finland has signed a new multi-year funding agreement that will see the long-term partner of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA contribute EUR 4.5 million (US$ 4.8 million) per year to the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA General Fund between 2015 and 2018. ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said: “Multi-year agreements, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[831],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1745],"entity":[5343,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-206113","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-finland","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-palestine-plo-palestinian-authority","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/206113","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\/206113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=206113"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=206113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}