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Japan underscored the vital role of the Agency's activities in the region and reiterated its strong commitment to and support for those activities.

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced yesterday that New Zealand's official response to the relief and reconstruction efforts has climbed to 68 million New Zealand dollars, inclusive of the 10 million dollars already announced for the relief effort, and that it is New Zealand's largest response ever to an international relief and reconstruction programme.

The humanitarian relief and essential services provided by UNRWA to the Palestinians remained vitally important.

To date, the Australian public has contributed some 190 million Australian dollars to the relief and rebuilding effort.

The UNRWA Relief and Social Services Programme focused on the most vulnerable refugees, recognizing also the increasing burden of poverty that falls on women.

He expressed the hope that UNRWA would expand its sphere of activities, notwithstanding its serious financial predicament.

Some 13,000 international and national relief workers have been providing relief to more than 3 million people in Darfur and Chad.

The information in the UNRWA annual report showed a deterioration in the socio economic situation of the Palestinians, and his delegation believed that uninterrupted services from UNRWA were essential at the current difficult time.

Delaying bank restructuring is costly, in terms of both the eventual bailout costs and the damage to the overall economy in the interim.

The volume of data had also increased, due in part to the significant expansion of emergency and relief operations by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The international community responded with massive humanitarian relief, and hundreds of thousands of more lives were saved.

Smooth on site coordination in the event of a major disaster involving both national and international responders is a major challenge.

21.2 UNRWA reports directly to the General Assembly.

In addition, we will provide approximately 170 million as an extra budgetary allocation for humanitarian relief, reconstruction and development assistance in the affected areas.

Ms. Hulan (Canada) said that UNRWA was carrying out critically important work, and her Government had pledged its continuing support for the Agency's endeavours.

All providers of relief assistance should take concrete steps to maximize the participation of beneficiaries in the planning and implementation of relief programmes.

Recognizing also the importance of adequate assistance in the transition from relief to development,

Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

Underlining the urgent need for humanitarian assistance, relief and reconstruction,

Underlining the urgent need for humanitarian assistance, relief and reconstruction,

Reiterating the importance of mounting prompt and effective relief operations in the aftermath of such deadly calamities in the future,

Let me conclude by reiterating Canada's commitment to continue working with the Emergency Relief Coordinator and Member States in strengthening the humanitarian system.

Training is a key component of results based organizations, and UNRWA has identified those areas that will be the focus of its capacity building efforts.

In the face of considerable controversy, assistance continued to be provided without requiring the poor to enter oppressive workhouses. Outdoor relief, as the alternative was known, was expanded as the most cost effective way to address the poverty problem.

The absence of joint planning may give rise to gaps or duplications in relief efforts.

21.1 The General Assembly, by its resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949, established the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a separate entity within the United Nations system and mandated it to provide continued assistance for the relief of Palestine refugees.

(a) There are no reasonably available local remedies to provide effective redress, or the local remedies provide no reasonable possibility of such redress

Local remedies

Social assistance

(ii) Community relief

In that regard, UNMIL relief, recovery and rehabilitation unit established a reintegration task force in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh county, to coordinate reintegration and rehabilitation activities.

We seem to be at the mercy of our narratives. Ever since 2009, most of us have just been waiting for some story to turn our hearts aglow with hope and confidence and to reinvigorate our economies.

The majority of people receiving income assistance need literacy programs, academic or skills developments and the Community Services Employment Supports focuses on these needs.

8. Encourages, in this regard, all parts of the United Nations system to work together closely on the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in order to ensure a smooth transition from relief to development in Afghanistan

The plan focuses on agency responsibilities, possible settlement sites, the pre positioning of relief items and security arrangements.

UNRWA was the primary source of humanitarian relief assistance to Palestinian refugees.

Emergency relief

(a) Relief Services

(b) To provide security and support for the distribution of relief supplies and humanitarian relief operations

As Israel has previously stated, we support the humanitarian mission of UNRWA and recognize its important contribution to the welfare of the Palestinian refugees.

Importantly, it recognizes that emergency relief is just the tip of the iceberg of the true impact of this disaster.

He highlighted the severe and sustained mobility and other restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people, which had repercussions on their daily life and on UNRWA operations, as clearly depicted in the report of the Commissioner General of UNRWA (A 60 13).

The New Zealand relief and reconstruction response that I have just outlined is only the first step in what will be a long term recovery process.

Exhaustion of local remedies