Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust

ON THE ACCOUNTS OF THE VOLUNTARY FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE

As a result, public access to, and information about, the Fund's proceedings may be somewhat more difficult to obtain.

iv) WWSF receives regular financial contributions from WFP, IFAD, UNHCR, the World Bank, and received a donation from UNIFEM and UNFPA in the past.

16. Commends the Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund for its efforts to remedy the continuing difficult financial situation of the Fund, which is due to a lack of contributions

41. Currently, UNHCR has three types of reserves the Emergency Fund, the Voluntary Repatriation Fund and the Programme Reserve.

Voluntary Funds Administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)h

The children had sought safety in UNICEF s Juba compound before being sent under UNICEF protection to Khartoum.

Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PROGRAMME

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PROGRAMME

UNHCR is a member organization participating in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF), which was established by the United Nations General Assembly to provide retirement, death, disability and related benefits.

e) Special Programmes (including Trust Funds) comprise various trust and special programme funds to account for moneys available for purposes falling outside the General Programmes, and within the scope of UNHCR activities.

The competence of the Tribunal extends to the secretariats of the associated programmes that are financed from voluntary contributions, such as the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

32. UNHCR activities are divided into the two broad categories of General Programmes (including a Programme Reserve, the Voluntary Repatriation Fund and the Emergency Fund) and Special Programmes.

The following United Nations bodies were represented by observers United Nations Children apos s Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(c) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(c) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

G. Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The UNICEF Kinshasa office, in collaboration with the personnel of the UNICEF Brazzaville office attended to the protection needs of women and children in the refugee camp.

Few funds were available to UNICEF in the neighbouring countries for Palestinian refugee programmes.

(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (continued)

(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

10. The 1996 memorandum of understanding between UNHCR and UNICEF gives primary responsibility for the welfare of refugee children to UNHCR, while UNICEF takes the lead role for children in their country of origin.

The Fund should ease the difficulties that developing countries faced in accessing funds for projects.

The objective of guaranteeing the reproductive rights of refugees has been integrated into the multilateral cooperation programmes with agencies including UNFPA, UNHCR and UNICEF.

As start up contributions to the Trust Fund, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees provided 100,000 and 50,000, respectively.

Algeria had concluded agreements with Mali and the Niger, as well as with UNHCR and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

(iii) Violence against women, in collaboration with UNHCR and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (priority themes B and C)

For 1996 the target was 750,000 women members, but it must be pointed out that the enrolment system has encountered a number of difficulties.

59. The 1996 memorandum of understanding between UNHCR and UNICEF gives primary responsibility for the welfare of refugee children to UNHCR, while UNICEF takes the lead role for children in their country of origin.

Moreover, the fact that nearly all contributions to the Fund are earmarked for specific uses means that the Fund is predominantly donor driven, and it is difficult for the Fund to develop a coherent, over arching strategy for project development.

In the field, UNHCR, the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) and WFP provided assistance to 400,000 refugees fleeing the conflict as well as internally displaced persons throughout the country.

UNICEF and UNHCR have also collaborated regarding rehabilitation of schools.

Voluntary Funds administered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The policy of the IMF was totally coherent, yet totally catastrophic.

6. He was concerned about the financing of UNHCR operations.

It also attends regularly meetings of UNICEF and the UNHCR Executive Board.

This effort began with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department for Disarmament Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations Population Fund.

UNHCR will play its part in ensuring that Member States are advised of the existence of this fund and the need to make contributions to it.

(v) Trust Funds under both the annual programme and the supplementary programme cover activities for which UNHCR received moneys from donors without assuming ownership of the funds.

The following table shows the total UNHCR expenditure in 2004, broken down between funds and category.

The Department has also increased its cooperation with such United Nations agencies as the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF), UNDP, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).