{"id":127050,"date":"2018-01-22T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=127050"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:23:37","slug":"kuwait-pledges-0-5-million-in-continued-annual-support-for-ilo-activities-in-the-palestinian-territory","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/kuwait-pledges-0-5-million-in-continued-annual-support-for-ilo-activities-in-the-palestinian-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Pledges $0.5 Million in Continued Annual Support for ILO Activities in the Palestinian Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

Press release | 22 January 2018<\/p>\n

A new grant from Kuwait to the ILO will promote decent work and social justice in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, bringing the total of Kuwait\u2019s contributions to ILO efforts in the Arab States region to US$ 5 million since 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Beirut (ILO News)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Kuwait pledged US$500,000 to support the ILO\u2019s Decent Work Agenda in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT.)<\/p>\n

Jamal Al-Ghunaim, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, made the contribution to ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on Friday (January 19) in Geneva.<\/p>\n

Director-General Ryder voiced the ILO\u2019s appreciation of Kuwait\u2019s support to the ILO and its consistent contribution to the Organization\u2019s interventions.
\n\u201cKuwait has proven itself time and time again to be a firm supporter of the ILO\u2019s work in the Palestinian territory,\u201d Ryder said.<\/p>\n

“This is the tenth year in which Kuwait has brought both a good message and material support to the ILO. This is always appreciated, and useful to the ILO\u2019s activities in Palestine,\u201d the ILO Director- General continued.<\/p>\n

Ryder noted that, thanks to Kuwait\u2019s previous contributions, the ILO was able to align its support around three priorities within the Palestinian Decent Work programme during 2013-2016, and deliver on employment, social security and labour market governance.<\/p>\n

The new funding brings Kuwait\u2019s total contributions to the ILO\u2019s promotion of decent work and social justice in the Arab States region to US$5 million since 2009.<\/p>\n

On his part, Ambassador Al-Ghunaim praised ILO\u2019s role and efforts in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n

“This contribution comes out of a strong commitment of the Government of Kuwait to supporting the Palestinian people, especially in the current difficult circumstances. We are confident that the technical support provided by ILO to the Palestinians effectively contributes to attaining objectives of decent work,\u201d said Jamal Al-Ghunaim.<\/p>\n

In particular, the new contributions will enable the ILO to expand its technical support to its Palestinian constituents under the umbrella of a new Decent Work Programme for the period 2018-2022. The programme will prioritize enhancing employment and livelihood opportunities for Palestinian women and men, and strengthening labour governance and realizing fundamental principles and rights at work through freedom of association, strengthened collective bargaining and improved social dialogue mechanisms. It will also prioritize implementing and developing the Palestinian social security system towards extending social protection to all.<\/p>\n

The second Decent Work Programme will support the Palestinian National Policy Agenda (NPA) (2017-22): Putting Citizens First. The first such ILO programme in the Palestinian Territory was implemented from 2013-2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Press release | 22 January 2018 A new grant from Kuwait to the ILO will promote decent work and social justice in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, bringing the total of Kuwait\u2019s contributions to ILO efforts in the Arab States region to US$ 5 million since 2009. Beirut (ILO News)\u00a0\u2013 Kuwait pledged US$500,000 to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[921],"document-category":[2437,1329],"document-source":[2629],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-127050","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-kuwait","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-international-labour-office-ilo","document-subject-assistance","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/127050","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/127050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=127050"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=127050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}