Palestinian children – UNICEF – Executive Board decisions (excerpts)

UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND

Executive Board

EXECUTIVE BOARD DECISIONS

A compilation covering the period 1991-1995

INTRODUCTION

This document is a compilation of Executive Board decisions taken between 1991-1995.  It is the seventh in a series of such compilations.1/

Together, these documents provide a record of the evolution of UNICEF policy and strategies in various areas of its work as well as of the functioning of the Executive Board itself.

The main documents to which Executive Board decisions refer are mentioned in the text and can be consulted for a more complete reference source.

Additional sources are the reports of the Executive Board 1991-1995, and the "Overview of UNICEF policies, organization and working methods" (E/ICEF/Overview) and the "Organization of the secretariat of UNICEF" (E/ICEF/Organization/Rev.2) (both to be updated and re-issued in 1996).

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1993/9.  Proposals for UNICEF cooperation and programme reviews

On the recommendation of the Programme Committee,

The Executive Board

1. Approves the following recommendations of the Executive Director for programme cooperation as summarized in document E/ICEF/1993/P/L.2 and Add.1:

(a) $82,634,000 for general resources funding and $97,981,000 for supplementary funding for programme cooperation in Africa, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1993/

(In United States dollars)

Benin 1994    949 000 P/L.26

Botswana 1993-1994  2 105 000 P/L.26

Burkina Faso 1993-1994  5 500 000  8 107 000 P/L.25

Burundi 1993-1997  7 150 000 13 850 000 P/L.4

Central African

  Republic 1993-1997  6 000 000 12 500 000 P/L.6

Côte d'Ivoire 1993-1996  1 243 000 P/L.27

Gabon 1993-1995  2 250 000    142 000 P/L.18

Guinea 1993-1995    725 000 P/L.27

Mali 1993-1997 20 625 000 22 129 000 P/L.7

Mauritania 1994-1998  5 000 000  7 253 000 P/L.8

Niger 1993-1994  2 695 000 P/L.26

Rwanda 1993-1997 2/  9 900 000 13 000 000 P/L.5

Zaire 1993-1995 20 460 000  9 743 000 P/L.25

Zimbabwe 1993-1996  9 289 000 P/L.27

(b)  $13,246,000 for general resources funding and $103,225,000 for supplemen- tary funding for programme cooperation in the Americas and the Caribbean, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1993/

(In United States dollars)

Bolivia 1993-1997  6 875 000 34 275 000 P/L.9 and

  Corr.1

Ecuador 1994-1998  5 000 000 16 450 000 P/L.10

Mexico 1993-1995  4 500 000 P/L.28

Paraguay 1993-1994  1 371 000 P/L.25

Subregional:

  PROANDES 1993-1997   48 000 000 P/L.28

(c) $121,540,000 for general resources funding and $107,491,000 for supple- mentary funding for programme cooperation in Asia, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1993/

(In United States dollars)

Bangladesh 1993-1995 52 800 000 56 821 000 P/L.13

China 1994-1995 36 000 000 13 500 000 P/L.11

Democratic People's

 Republic of

 Korea 1994-1998  5 000 000 P/L.19

Malaysia 1994-1996  2 250 000 P/L.19

Maldives 1994    430 000 P/L.26

Philippines 1994-1998 22 500 000 37 170 000 P/L.12

Philippines 1993  1 060 000 P/L.26

Thailand 1993-1994  1 500 000 P/L.26

(d) $18,500,000 for general resources and $29,345,000 for supplementary funding for programme cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and the new independent States, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1993/

(In United States dollars)

Albania 1993-1995  3 000 000  6 000 000 P/L.21

Armenia 1993-1994  2 000 000  2 000 000 P/L.22

Azerbaijan 1993-1994  2 000 000  2 000 000 P/L.23

Kazakhstan 1993-1994  2 000 000  4 000 000 P/L.24

Kyrgyzstan 1993-1994  2 000 000  2 000 000 P/L.24

Romania 1993-1994  3 345 000 P/L.29

Tajikistan 1993-1994  2 000 000  4 000 000 P/L.24

Turkmenistan 1993-1994  2 000 000  2 000 000 P/L.24

Uzbekistan 1993-1994  2 000 000  4 000 000 P/L.24

Programe support

 and operations 1993-1994  1 500 000 P/L.24

(e) $35,000,000 for general resources and $33,125,000 for supplementary funding for programme cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1993/

(In United States dollars)

Djibouti 1994    250 000 P/L.25

Egypt 1994  4 450 000 P/L.26

Iran (Islamic

 Republic of) 1993-1994  6 000 000  2 500 000 P/L.14

Iraq 1993-1994  4 000 000 13 000 000 P/L.15

Jordan 1993-1997  5 000 000  5 000 000 P/L.16

Palestinian children

 and women in

 Jordan 1994-1997    800 000    625 000 P/L.20

Syrian Arab

 Republic 1994-1995  2 000 000 P/L.26

Yemen 1994-1998 12 500 000 12 000 000 P/L.17

1994/R.2/6.  Proposals for UNICEF cooperation and programme reviews

The Executive Board

1. Approves the following recommendations of the Executive Director for programme cooperation as summarized in document E/ICEF/1994/P/L.3 and Add.1:

(a) $229,782,595 for general resources funding and $338,164,500 for supple- mentary funding for programme cooperation in Africa, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1994/

Angola 1994-1995  4 091 479 P/L.30

Benin 1994-1998  5 500 000 13 101 000 P/L.9

Botswana 1995-1999  5 200 000  9 000 000 P/L.4

Burkina Faso 1994-1995  2 800 000  7 453 000 P/L.20

Cameroon 1995    597 120 P/L.31

Cape Verde 1995-1999  3 750 000  7 500 000 P/L.15

Central African

 Republic 1994-1997  2 938 000 P/L.35

Chad 1994-1995  2 832 000 P/L.20

Comoros 1995-1996  1 500 000    800 000 P/L.19

Equatorial

 Guinea 1994-1998  3 750 000  4 000 000 P/L.15

Eritrea 1995  1 500 000  4 060 000 P/L.19

Ethiopia 1994-1999 75 000 000 37 500 000 P/L.5

Ghana 1995  1 184 551 P/L.31

Ghana 1994-1995  2 327 000 P/L.35

Guinea-Bissau 1994-1997  3 750 000  6 200 000 P/L.15

Kenya 1994-1998 22 000 000 30 000 000 P/L.6

Liberia 1994-1996  3 000 000 12 000 000 P/L.20

Madagascar 1994-1995  4 322 000  7 400 000 P/L.19

Mauritius 1995    750 000 P/L.19

Mozambique 1994-1998 42 000 000 59 000 000 P/L.7

Niger 1995-1999 12 200 000 18 630 000 P/L.10

Sao Tome and

 Principe 1995    411 687 P/L.30

Senegal 1994-1996  2 037 000 P/L.35

Sierra Leone 1995  1 522 317 P/L.31

Somalia 1994-1995  5 200 000 49 962 000 P/L.19

South Africa 1994-1996  6 000 000 14 400 000 P/L.19

Swaziland 1994-1995    919 340 P/L.30

Togo 1994-1996  3 000 000  4 856 000 P/L.20

Uganda 1994-1995  5 202 101 P/L.30

Zambia 1994-1996  3 400 000  3 000 000 P/L.19

Zimbabwe 1995-2000  8 400 000 42 000 000 P/L.8

(b) $29,129,073 for general resources funding and $101,474,000 for supple- mentary funding for programme cooperation in the Americas and the Caribbean, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1994/

Argentina 1994-1995  1 072 661 P/L.32

Argentina 1994-1995  3 000 000 P/L.36

Brazil 1994-2000 11 900 000 84 514 000 P/L.11

Chile 1994-1996  2 016 000    960 000 P/L.21

Guyana 1995-1999  3 750 000  3 000 000 P/L.16

Haiti 1995  1 541 405 P/L.32

Honduras 1995  1 032 757 P/L.32

Mexico 1994-1995  1 816 250 P/L.32

Paraguay 1995-1999  6 000 000 10 000 000 P/L.12

(c) $26,541,000 for general resources funding and $42,268,500 for supplemen- tary funding for programme cooperation in Asia, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1994/

Afghanistan 1995  5 500 000 P/L.22

Bangladesh 1994-1995 25 000 000 P/L.37

Cambodia 1994-1995  4 280 000 P/L.22

Maldives 1994-1998  3 750 000  2 550 000 P/L.17

Mongolia 1994-1996  2 261 000    900 000 P/L.22

Myanmar 1994-1995  1 568 500 P/L.37

Thailand 1994-1998 10 750 000 12 250 000 P/L.13

(d) $4,000,000 for general resources funding and $20,000,000 for supplemen- tary funding for programme cooperation in Central and eastern Europe and the new independent States, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1994/

Bosnia and

 Herzegovina 1994-1995  8 000 000 P/L.24

Croatia 1994-1995  3 000 000 P/L.25

Federal Republic

 of Yugoslavia

 (Serbia and

 Montenegro) 1994-1995  3 000 000 P/L.26

Georgia 1994-1995  2 000 000  2 000 000 P/L.28

The former Yugoslav

 Republic of

 Macedonia 1994-1995  4 000 000 P/L.27

Area office for

 countries in

 former

 Yugoslavia 1994-1995  2 000 000 P/L.29

(e) $39,947,720 for general resources funding and $102,100,000 for supple- mentary funding for programme cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, as follows:

Djibouti 1994-1998  3 500 000  3 750 000 P/L.18

Egypt 1995-2000 30 000 000 50 000 000 P/L.14

Iraq 1995-1996  3 000 000 13 000 000 P/L.23

Palestinian

 women and

 children in:

 Lebanon 1995    350 000    350 000 P/L.23

 Syrian Arab

   Republic 1995    200 000 P/L.23

 West Bank and

   Gaza 1994-1995    725 000 35 000 000 P/L.23

Sudan 1995  1 217 284 P/L.34

Tunisia 1995-1996    955 436 P/L.34

1995/9.  Proposals for UNICEF cooperation and programme reviews

The Executive Board

1. Approves the following recommendations of the Executive Director for programme cooperation as summarized in document E/ICEF/1995/P/L.10 and Add.1:

(a) $108,709,249 for general resources funding and $248,383,450 for supple- mentary funding for programme cooperation in Africa, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1995/

Angola 1996  3 200 000  6 700 000 P/L.27

Burkina Faso 1995    260 000 P/L.14

Burkina Faso 1996-2000 14 000 000 34 375 000 P/L.14

Côte d'Ivoire 1995-1996  2 000 000 P/L.35

Eritrea 1995    600 000 P/L.11

Eritrea 1996-2000  7 500 000 25 850 000 P/L.11

Ghana 1995    650 000 P/L.16

Ghana 1996-2000 15 000 000 26 828 000 P/L.16

Madagascar 1995    165 000 P/L.12

Madagascar 1996-2000 15 900 000 44 100 000 P/L.12

Mauritius 1996-2000  3 750 000    500 000 P/L.23

Sao Tome and

 Principe 1996    750 000    345 000 P/L.27

Senegal 1995-1996  3 072 979 P/L.32

Senegal 1995-1996  3 500 000 P/L.32

Somalia 1995    400 000 P/L.27

Somalia 1996  3 000 000 23 000 000 P/L.27

Swaziland 1995    100 000 P/L.23

Swaziland 1996-2000  3 750 000  2 750 000 P/L.23

Uganda 1995-2000 32 600 000 77 400 000 P/L.13

United Republic

 of Tanzania 1995-1996  1 035 450 P/L.32

United Republic

 of Tanzania 1996  4 011 270 P/L.32

(b) $9,108,352 for general resources funding and $44,100,000 for supplemen- tary funding for programme cooperation in the Americas and the Caribbean, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1995/

Argentina 1995  5 000 000 P/L.29 and

  Corr.1

Argentina 1996  1 000 000  9 000 000 P/L.29 and

  Corr.1

Guatemala 1995-1996  2 700 000 P/L.36

Haiti 1995-1997  5 100 000 25 800 000 P/L.29 and

  Corr.1

Jamaica 1995-1996  1 500 000  1 600 000 P/L.29 and

  Corr.1

Mexico 1995    431 512 P/L.33

Venezuela 1995  1 076 840 P/L.33

(c) $344,074,941 for general resources funding and $430,500,000 for supple- mentary funds for programme cooperation in Asia, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1995/

Bangladesh 1996-2000 88 000 000 162 000 000 P/L.21

Bhutan 1996    873 645 P/L.34

Cambodia 1995    230 000 P/L.34

China 1995  1 980 000 P/L.17

China 1996-2000     100 000 000  60 000 000 P/L.17

Indonesia 1995-2000 72 000 000  70 000 000 P/L.18

Myanmar 1995  3 230 049 P/L.19

Myanmar 1996-2000 32 500 000  23 500 000 P/L.19

Viet Nam 1995  1 261 247 P/L.20

Viet Nam 1996-2000 44 000 000  91 000 000 P/L.20

Subregional

 multimedia

 communications

 initiative for

 South Asia 1995-1999  24 000 000 P/L.37

(d) $39,500,000 for general resources and $48,500,000 for supplementary funding for Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1995/

Afghanistan 1995    500 000 P/L.22

Afghanistan 1996-1999 24 000 000 28 000 000 P/L.22

Armenia 1995-1999  5 000 000  6 500 000 P/L.26

Azerbaijan 1995-1999  5 000 000  6 500 000 P/L.26

Romania 1995-1999  5 000 000  7 500 000 P/L.26

(e) $5,000,000 for general resources and $5,000,000 for supplementary funds in the Middle East and North Africa, as follows:

Country Period  General Supplementary Document

   resources     funds E/ICEF/1995/

Syrian Arab 1996-2000  5 000 000  5 000 000 P/L.24

 Republic

2. Approves an amount of $1,019,433 to cover overexpenditure, as described in document E/ICEF/1995/P/L.38;

3. Decides to consider at its annual session of 1995 the country programme recommendations contained in documents E/ICEF/1995/P/L.15, E/ICEF/1995/P/L.25, E/ICEF/1995/P/L.28, E/ICEF/1995/P/L.30 and E/ICEF/1995/P/L.31.

Second regular session

22 and 23 March 1995

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O.  Middle East and North Africa

1991/15.  Assistance to Palestinian children

On the recommendation of the Programme Committee,

The Executive Board,

Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990 and the Declaration and the Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children, and the stipulation therein pertaining to the children living under difficult circumstances, especially those living under occupation,

Having studied the report on the programme development in the Middle East and North Africa contained in document E/ICEF/1991/10,

Taking into consideration the difficult conditions of Palestinian children,

Concerned by the deteriorating situation in the region,

Affirming the need to intensify assistance to Palestinian children and women,

Requests the Executive Director of UNICEF to continue to urgently assess the situation of Palestinian children and women and to provide funds commensurate with the expanding needs of these children and women, and to report to the 1992 session of the Executive Board on implementation.

1994/R.2/7.  Assistance to Palestinian children and women

The Executive Board,

Taking into consideration the new emerging situation in the Middle East, the need for an increase of assistance for Palestinian children and women, and the need to follow an integrated approach in this regard,

Requests that UNICEF monitor closely the rapidly changing opportunities to support Palestinian children and women, that it presents to one of the Board's 1995 sessions a review paper detailing UNICEF's programme needs and activities in the field of assistance for Palestinian children and women that might be indicated by changes in the situation, as well as measures that should be considered in response thereto; and that it makes an in-depth presentation on the matter.