Strengthening Palestinian cultural identity – UNDP/PAPP press release

United Nations Development Programme

Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People

04.07.2011 – UNDP and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities signed an agreement for a joint programme to rehabilitate public infrastructure for strengthening Palestinian cultural identity and ensuring a local-based tourism labor market. The programme will target the occupied Palestinian territory including interventions in East Jerusalem, Gaza and Area C. Some of the interventions will include the rehabilitation and restoration of museums, archaeological sites and storages, historical buildings, Ministry facilities, training and others.The agreement was signed by H.E. Khuloud Daibes, Minister of Tourism, and Mr. Frode Mauring, UNDP Special Representative of the Administrator.