Assessments

Executive Summary The occupied Palestinian Territories have a low HDI, and ranks number 102 in the 2005 Human Development report (UNDP 2005), with 67% of the population living below the monetary poverty line. In 2006, the unemployment is given as…

Executive Summary Highlights: Provision of reliable, treated piped water is probably the single most important intervention for improving health and quality of life in the West Bank within a water supply and sanitation program context. Introduction and Background This…

This paper examines the humanitarian risks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the coming months. It warns of an extremely bleak humanitarian situation for the Palestinian people. The analysis has been organised according to three scenarios. Scenario 1…

This report is divided into four parts; - The first part provides a general overview of the Barrier route and its humanitarian implications. It also includes a brief overview of certain legal developments. - The second part of the report…

Summary WFP began operating in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) in 1991 when a series of smallscale interventions targeting specific vulnerable groups were implemented through local Palestinian institutions. Throughout the 1990s and up to 2002, WFP activities ranged from relief, recovery…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As requested by the Minister for Agriculture of the Palestinian Authority (PA), FAO in cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) undertook an assessment of the food and nutrition…

Executive Summary In summer 2002, in the context of continuing attacks on civilians in Israel, the Government of Israel began construction of a separation barrier ("The Wall") - a complex series of walls, barriers, trenches, and fences - within…

Press Release No: 2003/241/MNA JERUSALEM, March 5, 2003 ― Twenty-seven months after the outbreak of the intifada, 60 percent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza live under a poverty line of US$2 per…

UNEP's Governing Council 3 to 7 February: Environment for Development Nairobi, January 2003 - A report on the environmental situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was today published on the Internet. The document will be discussed by environment ministers attending the 22nd…