{"id":204854,"date":"2016-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204854"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:51:25","slug":"auto-insert-204854","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204854\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan announces new assistance to Palestinian people totalling US$78 million &#8211; Japan MoFA press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27481%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20481%20109%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27481%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/97eae9169e8ea5d485257f5b0056e16b_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"109px\" width=\"481px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">February 15<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, 2015<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>Japan&#39;s New Assistance to Palestinian People (USD 78,210,200)<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, announced that the Government of Japan has committed Japan&#39;s new assistance of USD 78,210,200 to the Palestinian people through international organizations and Japanese NGOs, on the occasion of his meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas on 15<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;February in Tokyo, Japan.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">This new assistance consists of a budget support (USD 20,000,000) through the World Bank&#39;s Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP) Trust Fund and more than 14 projects in partnership with other international organizations and Japanese NGOs (Please see attached list of projects).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The new assistances focuses on (1) support for Palestinian refugees suffering under severe conditions through UNRWA, (2) support for social stability of Palestine through a budget support with the World Bank, (3) support for internally displaced persons through Japanese NGOs and (4) support for the improvement of livelihood in health, water sanitation and education sectors in order to drive reconstruction of Gaza forward and then shift to development.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In addition to this new assistance, the Government of Japan will continue to contribute to Palestine&#39;s economic development through Jericho Agro Industrial Park (JAIP) in close partnership with relevant individuals and ministries including the Palestinian Industrial Estates &amp; Free Zones Authority, the Ministry of National Economy and the Ministry of Finance and Planning.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Japan has been supporting economic development efforts exerted by key ministries both financially and technically, to help prepare the Palestinian Authority for statehood in line with the P.A.&#39;s national development plans. Japan has also provided assistance through UN agencies including humanitarian assistance, as well as to local NGOs and local councils for their grassroots development projects. Japan&#39;s assistance amounts to approximately USD 1.7 billion in total since 1993.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps.emb-japan.go.jp\/PressRelease\/PressRelease2016\/n15_b_February_Eng.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Detailed disbursement of Japan&#39;s news assistance of $78 million<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(END)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps.emb-japan.go.jp\/PressRelease\/PressRelease2016\/n15February_Eng.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">http:\/\/www.ps.emb-japan.go.jp\/PressRelease\/PressRelease2016\/n15February_Eng.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE February 15th, 2015 Japan&#39;s New Assistance to Palestinian People (USD 78,210,200) Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, announced that the Government of Japan has committed Japan&#39;s new assistance of USD 78,210,200 to the Palestinian people through international organizations and Japanese NGOs, on the occasion of his meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas on 15th&nbsp;February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204854\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[906],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204854","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-japan","document-category-press-release","document-subject-assistance","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204854","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\/204854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}