{"id":202230,"date":"2011-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202230"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:19:40","slug":"auto-insert-202230","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202230\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and UNRWA sign agreement to build schools in Gaza – UNRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development through the Islamic Development Bank signs groundbreaking agreement to build schools in Gaza<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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الصندوق الكويتي للتنمية الإقتصادية العربية من خلال البنك الإسلامي للتنمية يوقع إتفاقية رائدة لبناء مدارس في غزّة<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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5 December 2011
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development acting through the Islamic Development Bank have signed an agreement worth US$ 9,550,000 to construct five new schools in the Gaza Strip. The agreement was signed in Amman between the Director of the IDB’s Trust Funds Department, Mr Mansour Bin Feten, and Mr Peter Ford, Representative of the UNRWA Commissioner-General.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Education forms the Agency’s largest programme and UNRWA currently educates more than 218,000 refugee students across 243 schools in the Gaza Strip. About 94 per cent of the schools are run on a double-shift basis and the average class size in Gaza is 38.5 pupils. These five new schools will go a significant way towards easing the overcrowding that is endemic in Gaza’s schools, and which has begun to negatively impact on academic attainment levels.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Among the five schools funded by the Kuwait Fund is a groundbreaking, pilot “environmental zero impact” school, designed by the Italian architecture firm, Mario Cucinella Architects, which will be showcased by UNRWA at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Durban, South Africa. It is hoped that the green school concept will be rolled out more widely across the Gaza Strip in the coming years.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Commenting on the agreement, Mr Filippo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner-General, underlined that: “UNRWA is delighted to have signed this agreement to build five schools in Gaza. Education remains the key intervention for the Agency in Gaza and we are most grateful that the Kuwait Fund has come on board to help us meet our goals for Palestine refugee children. This contribution is the first-ever agreement between UNRWA and the Kuwait Fund, acting through the Islamic Development Bank, one of the Agency’s most valued partners, and we are confident that this marks the start of a long and fruitful relationship. We are particularly pleased that the Kuwait Fund and the IDB have decided to fund the pilot green school, an exciting and groundbreaking initiative for the Agency.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Established in 1961, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development assists Arab and other developing countries in developing their economies by providing loans, guarantees, grants, technical assistance, and contributing to capital stocks of international and regional development finance institutions and other development institutions.
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For more information please contact:<\/strong><\/i>
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Christopher Gunness
\nUNRWA Spokesperson
\nMobile: +972 (0)54 240 2659
\nOffice: +972 (0)2 589 0267<\/span>
\n<\/span>c.gunness@unrwa.org<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Sami Mshasha
\nUNRWA Arabic Spokesperson
\nMobile: +972 (0)54 216 8295
\nOffice: +972 (0)2 589 0724 <\/span>
\n<\/span>s.mshasha@unrwa.org<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development through the Islamic Development Bank signs groundbreaking agreement to build schools in Gaza الصندوق الكويتي للتنمية الإقتصادية العربية من خلال البنك الإسلامي للتنمية يوقع إتفاقية رائدة لبناء مدارس في غزّة 5 December 2011 Amman The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, and the Kuwait Fund for Arab […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[921],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[3481,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2441,1745],"entity":[5343,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-202230","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-kuwait","document-category-press-release","document-source-islamic-development-bank","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-education-and-culture","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\/202230","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\/202230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=202230"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=202230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}