REPORT

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OF THE UNITED NATIONS

RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY

FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES

IN THE NEAR EAST

1 July 1979-30 June 1980

GENER/tL ASSEMBLY

OFFICIAL RECORDS: THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION

SUPPLEMENT No. 13 (A/35/13)

UNITED NATIONS

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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I have the honour to submit my annual report to the General Assembly on thework o~ the United Nations Relie~ and Works Agency ~or Palestine Refugees in theNear East (UNRWA) ~or the period 1 July 1979 to 30 June 1980 in compliance withthe request in paragraph 21 o~ resolution 302 (IV) o~ 8 December 1949 andparagraph 8 o~ resolution 1315 (XIII) o~ 12 December 1958.

As has been done in recent years, in the introduction to the report I invitethe General A5~embly's attention to the serious ~inancial di~~iculties ~aced bythe Agency.

Chapter I of the report describes the Agency's programmes and theirdevelopment during the year which ended on 30 June 1980.

Chapter II presents the Agency's proposed budget ~or 1981, ~or considerationby the General Assembly at its ~orthcoming session, and the budget ~or 1980.These chapters are preceded by a summary.

O~ the two annexes to the report, the ~irst contains statistical data onvarious aspects o~ the Agency's work, and the second lists pertinent resolutions,reports and other documents o~ the General Assembly and other United Nationsbodies.

The Advisory Commission o~ UNRWA examined this report in draft. Its views areset forth in a letter dated 2 September 1900 from its Chairman, of which I enclosea copy. Your particular attention is drawn to the recommendation of the Commissionmade in the letter. I have had the benefit of the advice of the members of theCommission in preparing th~ ~inal text but it should not be assumed that theGovernments represented on the Commission necessarily subscribe to all o~ the viewsI have expressed.

Since 1967, a major part of the Agency's operations has been conducted inareas occupied by Israel. Consequently, I considered it appropriate to continuethe practice of showing the report in draft to its representatives and I havetaken their views and comments into account also.

Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

(Signed) Olof RYDBECKCommissioner-General

The President o~ the General AssemblyUnited NationsNew York

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COMMISSIONOF T~S UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR

PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST

2 September 1980

Dear Mr. Rydbeck,

In its meeting held in Vienna on 2 September 1980, the Advisory Commissionof UNRWA has considered the draft report on the Agency's services and activitiesduring the period 1 July 1979-30 June 1980 which you intend to submit to theUnited Nations General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session.

The Commission notes that you will do your best to restore the traditionallevel of UNRWA services, and attempt to augment them, bearing in mind the seriousconsequences of reductions. The Commission emphasizes its deep concern for thecontinuing deficit in UNRWA's budget. Taking into consideration that the financingof UNRWA is the responsibility of the entire international community, theCommission calls upon all States Members of the United Nations to make a concertedeffort to support the work of UNRWA and contribute in so far as pos-sible to theeffective and stable financing of the Agency until a just, permanent andcomprehensive solution td the problem of Palestine is found, especially as theUnited Nations General Assembly is due to consider the extension of the mandate ofUNRWA at its thirty-fifth session. In this regard, and in the light of your annualreport to the General Assembly, the Advisory Commission recommends, through you,to the General Assembly that it call upon the Working Group on the Financing ofUNRWA to study the Agency's financial deficit and to make specific reco~nendations,

before the next regular meeting of the Advisory Commission, for measures toincrease income and to find new sources of finance for UNRWA.

The Commission takes note with reeret of the difficulties occasioned to thework of the Agency in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories by the events describedin your draft report.

The Commission recalls that the major part of the UNRvTA Headquarters is stilloutside its area of operations, and requests you to consider consolidation of theHeadquarters in Beirut or elsewhere within the area of operations, in accordancewith United Nations General Assembly resolution 33/112.

The Commission also notes the progress UNRWA has made in education andemployment of women. In this regard it requests you to include in your next reportto the General Assembly the progress you have made in this respect.

Mr. Olof RydbeckCommissioner-General of the United

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INTRODUCTION

1. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the NearEast (UNRvlA) observed the conclusion of 30 years of service to Palestine refugees on30 April 1980. The current mandate of the Agency expires on 30 June 1981. It istherefore appropriate that UNRWA's functions should be reviewed in the light ofpresent circumstances and needs for the future. The critical financial situation ofthe Agency makes a re-examination of the terms of UNRWA' s mandate all the moreurgent.

2. Over the last three decades. the General Assembly has passed many resolution ~

relating to UNRWA (see annex 11 to the present report). These have taken account fUNRWA's changing role in the political situation in the Near East. General Assemblyresolutioll 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 ~ may be regarded as the founding charter ofUNRWA. In the resolution the Assembly recognized the necessity of continuedassistance for the relief of the Palestine Tefugees to prevent conditions ofstarvation and distress among them. It also recognized that constructive measuresshould be undertaken at an early date with a view to the termination ofinternational assistance for relief. In the resolution the Assembly foresaw thetermination of direct relief by 31 December 1950~ by whi ch time the "worka" functionwas to have superseded the "re.lLef'" function of the Agency. Hhile the Assemblyacknowledged the urgent need for international relief, it envisaged the earlytransfer to the Governments of the area of responsibility for all forms of assistanceto those refugees who were not repatriated. Elf 1952 this was understood to meanboth the education, health and welfare services which the Agency was itself mounting,and the reintegration projects ·to be implemented by the Governments with Agencysupport. From 1958 the request to Governments to plan and carry out reintegrationprojects was omitted from Assembly resolutions) and UNRWA was asked to devise andexecute programmes capable of supporting substantial numbers of refugees,particularly programmes relating to education and vocational training. These wereto be undertaken alongside the relief and rehabilitation services already provided,which were to be equitably distributed and based on need. UNRWA's existence and itsprogrammes of relief and works were (and still are) without prejudice to theprovisions of paragraph 11 of Assembly resolution 194 (Ill) of 11 De~ember 1948.

3. Over the years UNRWA has become an organization dispensing services to a refugeepopulation now numbering 1.8 million people (about half of the total nu~ber ofPalestinians) living in five territories administered by four different Governments ­services which would normally be provided by national governments in the spheres ofeducation, health and social welfare. That part of the Agency's original functionwhich is represented by the "wor-ks" in its title~ which was intended to mean projectsfor the resettlement of refugees as an alternative to repatriation, was dropped over20 years ago. The situation is today totally different from that in which UNRWA wasoriginally established when emergency relief was the first priority. The gradualshift in priorities in UNRWA's operations has put e~~cation in the forefront~ andthe Agency now devotes well over half its expenditure to education and trainir.g, withover 3l4~00o children in its schools and 4,700 trainees in its vocational and teachertraining centres. Its health services provide basic medical care as well assanitation, drinking water and nutritional programmes for vulnerable groups. Therelief and welfare services are now ~~e third priority.

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4. U~~WA has become an established institution in its area of operations and playsa central role in the lives of the PalesGine refugees registered with it. Itsimportance as a stabilizing factor in the local scene is apparent in the social.economic and political spheres. Many thousands of Palestinia.ns depend upon itsocially and emotionally. Since UNRWA performs quasi-governmental functions in thespheres of educa.tion, health and relief, it represents to them an assurance thattheir existence is not overlooked by the international community. ~fuile UNRWA wasestablished as a temporary agency to meet an emergency situation resulting from theArab/Israeli conflict of 1948 in Palestine, it was envisaged that UNRWA would carryout its functions until a comprehensive settlement of the Palestine question wasachieved anQ the Agency's responsibilities could be transferred in an orderlyfashion to the G('··~rnments in the area. UNRWA's sudden, unplanned disappearancefrom the scene w~~ld cause severe problems both to the Palestine refugees and to thehost Governments. The threat which hangs over UNRWA today is that inadequate incometo maintain its services to the refugee community will cause it to collapse andthat, instead of an orderly transfer of responsibilities, turmoil will ensue. Iassume that the international community would not wish to see the demise of UNRWAthrough financial collapse, but unless the finr~cial prospects of the Agency improvegreatly in 1981, this grim prospect may become a. reality.

5. The budgetary deficits of UNRWA. i.e. the shortfall of projected income belowplanned expenditure, have become and are becoming larger year by year. Ever largersums are required to maintain the services to the refugees at existing levelsbecause of rising costs due to inflation and the growth in the school population.The budget for 1978 was set at $148.8 million, for 1979 $166.3 million and for 1980$211.3 million. The figure for 1980 included $17 million for the purchase offoodstuffs in order to maintain the basic ration distributed to about 824,000authorized recipients at the formerly established level. which included 10 kilos offlour per person monthly. This level has had to be halved over the last two years.since Ulfhv~ now distributes only those foodstuffs in the basic ration which areg~ve~ to it in kind by governments. The proposed budget for 1981 stands at $230.9mllllon and this sum excludes any provision for the purchase of foodstuffs in thebasic ration, since it is unrealistic to include Sllch expenditure when the Agencyforesees the greatest difficulty in raising sufficient income to keep even itseducdtion and health programmes intact.

6. UNRWA entered 1980 with a budgetary deficit of $56.8 million, which had beenreduced by the end of the reporting period to $47.0 million as a result of pledgesof additional income. Unless income either pledged or reasonably foreseeable for1981 exceeds income projected at the end of the reporting period for 1980, theAgency will go into 1981 with a budgetary deficit of $70.4 million. without makingany provision for the purchase of flour" When the deficiency between projectedincome and planned expenditure is of this magnitude. I can keep expenditure withinthe limits of assured income only by planning severe reductions in the servicesprovided to the refugees. Since UNRWA does not b~r foodstuffs, it cannot saveappreciable sums of money by reducing rations further. (There are relatively smallcosts involved in distributing foodstuffs given to the Agency.) This means thatre~uction of expenditure of the size required to bring expenditure into balance withincome can only be found in the education and health programmes. In 1979 the Agencyhad planned to relinquish responsibility for the three-year lower secondary cycleof education in all five fields of its operations if sufficient income were notforthcoming to maintain the school system intact until the end of the year. In 1980the Agency would have had to abandon the lower secondary cycle from 11ay if sufficientreduction in expenditure was to be achieved. This would have provided too short a

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7. Broadly son services toall the fiveservices onlyintact its heinstance. toThe second metservices becoeducation prodamaging to 1Syrian Arab ReGaza. Thereto the educatisystem throughdamaged, or atmeasure the Ain all its fibecause apartshift basis whday. Should iprogrammes. thfields while apriority to mawhere there isposition to as

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time for governments to respond to appeals for special contributions to UNRWA'sincome. It was decided therefore to plan to withdraw from the entire school systemin Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic, initially from 1 August. B,y the end of thereporting period additional income had been pledged to UNRWA which enabled theAgency to postpone the date of abandonment of its schools in Jordan and the SyrianArah Republic to 1 October. Whereas relief operations can be conducted at anylevel for which funds are available and can be temporarily stopped, theinstitutionalized programmes of the Agency in the spheres of health and educationcannot be turned off and on. Once a school system is broken up, the pupilsdispersed and the teaching staff dismissed, the process is virtually irreversible.In 1981, if forecasts of the budgetary position do not improve radically, theAgency will be obliged to plan even more severe cuts in its programmes, and evenearlier in the year.

7. Broadly speaking, there are two main methods available for reducing expenditureon services to the refugees. The first is to cut the services to an e~ual extent inall the five fields of operation. Up to now, the Agency has had to reduce itsservices only in the relief and welfare programmes and has been able to maintainintact its health and education programmes. ~llien it has become necessary, forinstance, to reduce rations, this reduction was effected evenly between the fields.The second method is to differentiate selectively between the fields when cuts inservices become inevitable. As explained above, when planning to reduce theeducation programme in 1980 the Agency came to the conclusion that it would be l~ss

damaging to lay down financial responsibility for all its schools in Jordan and theSyrian Arab Republic while maintaining its schools in Lebanon, the West Bank andGaza. There are certain advantages to this second method, particularly in relationto the education programme. If the decision were taken to mutilate the schoolsystem throughout the area of operations, this system would then be permanentlydamaged, or at the least would take a long time to restore. Although as a desperatemeasure the Agency planned in 1979 to close the lower secondary cycle of educationin all its five fields, this would have caused enormous administrative disruption,because apart from any other consideration most of UNRWA's schools work on a double­shift basis whereby two schools share the same building at different times of theday. Should it prove necessary in 1981 to plan to reduce the health and educat.Lonprogrammes, the Agency may decide to try to keep the programmes intact in certainfields while abandoning responsibility for them in others. The Agency would givepriority to maintaining them in the occupied territories of the Hest Bank and Gaza ,where there is so far no Arab Government or administration which might be in theposition to assume responsibility for the programmes.

8. The services to the Palestine refugees are provided by over 16,700 locallyrecruited staff members, the great majority of whom are themselves Palestinerefugees. They are under the direction of international staff in 113 posts(88 UNRWA, 20 UNESCO and 5 WHO). One of the effects of a lack of ade~uate funds tocover the Agency's budget is that it has not been possible over the last two yearsto make adjustments in local staff pay to meet fully the ever-rising cost of living.B.Y the end of the reporting period, staff pay in some fields had suffered a seriousdecline in purchasing power (by up to nearly one quarter in one field) compared withJanuary 1975, the base used by the Agency for the calculation of cost-of-livingallowances. An agreement was reached with the staff unions in 1979 to put thedetermination of staff pay on a new basis by way of comparison with staff doingsimilar jobs outside the Agency in the public and private sectors. The InternationalCivil Service Commission (IeSC) has given very valuable assistance to the Agency inthis respect and agreed to carry out comprehensive surveys of conditions of

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employment in the area of operations. Priority was given to the occupiedterritories, where the rate of inflation has been extremely high, and a survey by ateam led by an ICSC representative was being carried out in the "Test Bank at theend of the period under review. The new basis for the fixing of pay by comparisonwith outside occupations will, however, do nothing to alleviate the Agency'sproblem of finding the money to pay staff wages. Should the lCSC's recommendationss~ow that the Agencyls wages should be increased, the Agency may be put in thehighly unsatisfactory position of either having to underpay its staff or to dispensewith large numbers of them and the progr~mes they conduct. The fact that theyhave continued i-Tithout fail to perform their tasks in the service of their fellowPalestine refugees is a mark of their loyalty. I should like to pay tribute totheir sense of devotion in very difficult circumstances for themselves and for theirfamilies.

9. Should the General Assembly decide that, in the absence of a comprehensivesettlement of the Palestine question, the mandate of UNRWA should be extendedbeyond 30 June 1981, the level of the activities of the Agency, their nature andtheir geographical location must depend upon the income which is made available tothe Agency in the course of 1981 and during the remaining period of the renewedmandate , Over 90 per cent of the Ur.TRVlA income is derived from volunta.rycontributions by governments. who by the size of their contributions will set thelimits on UNRWAis programmes in 1981 and beyond. They will decide in effect whetherUNRWA can continue to operate its present 627 schools for 314.000 children inLebanon. the Syrian Arab Republic, Jordan. the West Bank and Gaz a; whether theAgency can go on providing medical care and public health services to one and ahalf million Palestine refugees throughout its area of operations; and whether theAg:ncy can continue its modest provision of social welfare to the poorest refugees.I will. by th e prudent management of the resources put at my disposal by theinternational community, do what I can to avoid a sudden collapse of the Agencythrough bankruptcy. But the international comm~tlity must recognize that, unlessadequate income is assured to the Agency in good time, I may be obliged to applydrastic surgery to the Agencyis programmes. either throughout the area ofoperations, or selectively in certain fields) or both. For Member States to votefor a resolution extending the mandate of UNRWA and then to fail to provide thefinance necessary to enable the Agency to go on functioning at its current levelwould represent a contradiction from which the first (but not the sole) suffererswould be the Palestine refugees.

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10, The education programme :Lncludes general education at elementary and Loversecondary levels, vocational and teacher training and university scholarships" In1979 expenditure on education and trainine; amounted to ~83)~ million and accountedfor. 52.5 per cent of the Agency1s total expenditure, The United NationsEducational, Scientific and C'ultural Organization (lffiTESCO) provides some directingand specialist staff including the Director of Education (see paras, 65-(;7).

11. In 1919/80 over 314,000 pupils were enrolled in UDRWA schools in Lebanon, theSyrian _~ab Republic, Jordan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, served by ateaching force of almost 9,500, Double-shifting in the schools continued to be 0.

problem. School construction, because of lack of funds, had to be limitE'lto thatnecessary to prevent triple-shifting and to replace the most unsatisfactory schoolbuildings. All textbooks nei.ly prescribed or revised by Governments of hostcountries were submitted to the Director-·General of' UNESCO for approval, Alltextbooks for use in the occupied territories were subject to import permits fromthe Israeli occupying authorities (see paz-as , 68 .. 10),

12. In Lebanon there was some interruption of schcoL pro~''''f1rr-,-7JlPs by militaryactivity and political demonstrations. In the Syrian Arab Republic UNRWA schoolsoperated satisfactorily. In east Jordan the schools operated normally except thatschools were closed on six days during the winter ~~cause of snow and later heavyrain 'which rendered some buildings unsafe. Two schools wer-e handed over to th,=Jordanian I1inistry of Education and two new UNRUA schools were opened. In the WestBank there was some disruption inthe school programme through political tension,In the Gaza Strip schools operated normally except for some interruptions durinGFebruary and March as a result of demonstrations and security measures by theoccupation authorities. The Israeli occupying authorities expelled on 1 July 1979the urJESCO team supported by UNRWA which was supervising the school-leavingcertificate examination, In 1980 these examinations took place without involvementof either UNESCO or UNRWA staff (see paras. 71-(9).

13, The number of training places in UNR1'TA vocational training centres increasedby 24 to 3,460, The vTadi Seer Training Centre in Jordan accepted female traineesfor the first time, A gift of nearly $2.5 million from tht" OP:"'C Fund .Till f'118.blpUNR1iA to raise the training capacity of its centres to 3,904 by 1982/83, Theoperation of all the centres except that in Damascus was affected by disturbancesand demonstrations. The Ramallah Women's Training Centre, closed by the Israelioccupying authorities on 13 March 1979, was reopened on 1 September 1919,Employment opportunities for graduates of the training centres remained good (seeparas. 80-83).

14. The teacher-training activities aim primarily at providing qualified teachersfor UNRWA schools, Training is given both in pre-aervice and in-service trainingcourses. P~e-service training is given to 1,240 students at four UI{RWA centres,one in Amman, Jordan, t,TO in Ramal.Lah , Hest Bank and OnE:: in Siblin, Lebanon. The

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Institute of ~ducation continued to be the main body providinG in-service trainingwith an enrolment of 1,015 staff in Institute courses for 1979/80. Following areorganization of the Educat.Lon Department an effort was made to strengthen theintegration of pre- and in-service teacher training (see paras. 84-(9),

15. The Ul'illSCO Extension Services Unit, ,vhich provided technical services tointerested Arab Governments, ceased to function on 31 December 1979. The twoEducation Development Centres in Jordan and the Gaza Strip continued their effortsto improve the quality of education in UNRWA schools. The Department of Educationorganized various staff training activities and 18 senior Palestininn education staff~e~bers were awarded fellowships for overseas study. LffiffiWA awarded 354 scholarshipsto Palestine refugees in 1979/80 for study at Arab universities (seeparas. 90-94).

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16. Preventive and curative services were provided at 100 Ul1R1?A health units andat 15 government and two vollli1tary agency clinics. Other services were subsidizedby UlffiUA. The delivery of curative services "TaS disturbed from time to time bymilitary activities in south Lebanon and disturbances in the West Bank. The Agencyoperated 24 dental clinics and 04 specialist clinics. Laboratory facilities werefurther inproved (see paras. 95-98)~

17. The Agency continued to operate a small hospital in Qalqiliya in the Hest Bankand nine camp maternity wards, mainly in Gaza. LffiffiWA continued to secure thenecessary in-patient care through subsidies to government and private hospitals.UlTImA is negotiating with the Jordanian Government new terms of an agreement forthe care of refugee patients referred to goverrunent hospitals. Claims for refund ofhospital expenses in Gaza declined as many refugees joined the government insurancescheme. In Lebanon the acute shortage of hospital beds persisted (see paras.99-102) .

IQ. An extensive programme of immunization forms part of the maternal and childhealth services. Among the public health control measures, importance was laid onthe improvement of environmental conditions and personal hygiene. A few cases ofcholera were reported among refugees in Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic. UNR\TAoperated a comprehensive tuberculosis control progrmm~e (see paras. 103-106).

19. ~1aternal and child health (MCH) care is provided in most UNRWA health centres,supplemented by a number of government and voluntary agency facilities. Plannedparenthood activ.ities were integrated into the MCH services in six health centres inthe Gaza Strip. Pre-natal care was given to mothers. The majority of deliverieswere attended at home by UNR1JA-supervised midwives or carried out in UNRWA maternitycentres. Child care includes the monitoring of gro,vth, supervision of feedingpractices, innnunizations and the distribution of dried milk to children up to threeyears of age. The number of malnutrition clinics is now 28 (see peras. 107-109)·

20. School health services include reinforcing immunizations and nutritionalsupport at supplementary feeding centres. Health education was conducted in allurmwA schools. In each field a team of health education workers was active(see paras. 110-112).

21. Nursing services continue to form an inteGral part of Lffiffil1A health services(see para. 113).

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22. UNRWA continued to provide b~sic community sanitation services in the camps.It lent financial and technical support to self-help proGrammes such QS the pavincof pathways and the construction of drains and sewers. The replacement ofcommunity latrines by private ones has almost been completed. The self-helpprocramme for private water connexions to refuGee shelters made proGress in manycamps. A scheme for providinc adequate water for Acency installations in fourcamps in the Syrian Jirab Republic was beinc executed. The improvement of refusecollection at various camps was under study (see paras. 114-119).

23. Promotion of the nutritional status of vulnerable Groups of refu~:ees is afeature of UNRWA health services. There is widespread iron deficiency anaemiaamong infants and children. A supplementary feedinc procramme was carried out forvulnerable croups at 91 centres. Over 50,000 children took advantace of thedistribution of whole and skim milk in dry form at child health clinics (seeparas. 120-124).

24. Medical university scholarships were awarded and refucees enrolled inlaboratory technician, public health inspection and assistant pharmacist coursesin UNRWA traininG centres. UNRIJA continued to pay a subsidy to a school of nursincin the area. Intensive in-service training of staff was carried out. A proGrammesponsored by the World Health OrGanization (WHO) provided fellowships for healthpersonnel. Specialized courses were arranced for nurses in post-basic midwiferyand in ophthalmoloGY (see paras. 125-127).

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25. UNRWA's relief services comprise the distribution of rations, the provision ofassistance with housinc and help to the very poor (see para. 128).

26 •. In Lebanon the relief programme continued to be disrupted by fightinc. Manyof the refucees who had returned to south Lebanon left aGain in the early monthsof 1979 for temporary accommodation in the area of Sidon. Special distributionsof food were made to refugees displaced from the south (see paras. 129-131).

27. In the West Bank disturbances and security measures t~ten by the authoritiesinterfered with the Agency's operations (see para. 132).

28. There were 1,844,318 refugees registered with the Agency on 30 June 1980, anincrease of 2.26 per cent compared with a year earlier. The AGency was unable tocarry out investigations of income to establish eligibility for Agency servicesthrouGhout the area of operations, although in the West Bank and Gaza programmesfor partial rectification of the recistration records were successful (seepara. 133).

29. A ceiling has been maintained on the number of ration recipients in Jordansince 1953 and the other fields since 1963. The number of rations issued inDecember 1979 was 823,897. Only 45 per cent of registered refugees were in receiptof rations in June 1980. In Jordan UNRWA distributed rations on the Government'sbehalf to persons displaced in 1967 who are not registered with UNRWA asPalestine refugees. For financial reasons the basic ration cannot exceed suchcommodities as the Agency receives as contributions in kind. The flour componentwas reduced by half in 1979 and 1980 compared with the formerly established levelof 10 kilos per month. The level of other commodities in the basic ration also had

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to be adjusted in 1979 and 1980 because of delays in the delivery of contributionsin kind. Certain categories of welfare cases continued to receive extra rationsexcept in the Syrian Arab Republic and in Lebanon (see paras. 134-137).

30. The population of the 51 canps established before 1967 was 528,314 on30 June 1980. In the 10 camps established in 1967 (six in east Jordan and four inthe Syrian Arab Republic) to house persons displaced in 1967 the population was159,345. 1he proportion of reGistered refugees living in camps was 35.3 per cent(see para. 138).

31. In Jordan in addition to minor repairs 10 prefabricated class-rooms wereconstructed and repairs made to some shelters for families too poor to bear thecost themselves. In the Syrian Arab Republic in addition to school constructionand repairs to roads a feeding centre and two water towers were built by UNRWA. InLebanon clashes in the south caused damage to Agency installations and refugeeshelters. The continued fighting has prevented the reconstruction of Nabatieh camp.In the West Bank, in addition to some minor works carried out by the Agency, therefugees completed a number of self-help projects with some support from UNRWA. Inthe Gaza Strip the Israeli occupying authorities insisted that refugees demolishtheir shelters in camps as a condition of the provision of accoIITmodation in newhousing projects. The Agency carried out certain repairs and supported self-helpprojects carried out by the refugees (see paras. 139-155).

32. Voluntary agencies donated used clothing to UNRWA. The number of familiesregistered as welfare cases (the very poor usually without a male breadwinner)totalled 24,298, comprising 118,472 persons, who were eligible for small-scaleassistance by UNRWA. Fifty-one pre-school centres served 4,149 children. Youthactivities were carried out in co-operation with the World Alliance of Young Mens'Christian Associations in 36 camps. Various other activities for young peoplewere carried out. The Agency operated 14 centres for activities for women. TheAgency also organized training activities outside the schools and training centresto provide training in various skills for young refugees (see paras. 156-162).

Relations with other organizations of the United Nations system

33. UNESCO and WHO 90ntinued to provide on non-reimbursable loan directing stafffor the education and health services. The United Nations Children's Fund andUNRWA co-operated in the procurement and transport of certain supplies (seeparas. l63-165).

34. UNRWA's Vienna headquarters moved in August and September 1979 into the ViennaInternational Centre, where it enjoys certain common services with UNIDO and theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (see para. 166).

Personnel matters

35. Owing to lack of funds, the cost-of-living adjustments to the pay of locally­recruited staff were not made for the first three quarters of 1979. The Agencyfound it possible to make adjustments in the last quarter of 1979, and again inJanuary 1980 for staff in the occupied territories where inflation is rampant.Since then until the end of the reporting period no further adjustments could bemade. A new agreement was reached between the administration and the staff unionsin October 1979 providing for remuneration to be based on surveys of prevailing

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36. At 30 June 1980 the Agency's financial position was such that sufficientincome could not be foreseen to continue the schools in east Jordan and theSyrian Arab Republic after 30 September 1980, which meant that unless additionalincome was forthcoming in time, about 4,900 educational staff members would haveto be dismissed. There were 113 international staff posts on 30 June 1980 and16,729 local posts (see paras. 169-170).

Legal matters

37. In the year under review 14 Agency staff members were detained in the GazaStrip, seven in the West Bank, one in Jordan and two in the Syrian Arab Republic.The Agency continued to express its deep concern at cases of prolonged detentionof its staff without charge or trial. The Jordanian Government objected to thecontinuation in Agency employment in Jordan of 12 locally-recruited staff who hadcome to Jordan from the Gaza Strip (see paras. 171-176).

38. The Gcverr-Gent of the Syrian Arab Republic ccntinued to impose travelrestrictions on one senior international staff member. The Israeli occupyingauthorities continued to impose restrictions on the duty travel of some Agencystaff members to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The interrogation of staffmembers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continued (see paras. 177-179).

39. Security measures imposed by the Israeli occupying authorit~e6·.iR the occupiedterritories affected UNRWA services. The Agency had to face difficulties affectingits. schools and other installations in the West Bank in the year under review. On9 April 1980 Israeli military forces entered the Men's Teacher Training Centre inRamallah and beat some of the trainees. Demolition of refugee shelters onpunitive grounds took place on two occasions in the West Bank and two in theGaza Strip (see paras. 180·-182).

40. The Agency pursued claims to exemptions from certain taxes and duties. Italso pursued claims against Governments for losses arising from hostilities in1967, 1975, 1976 and 1978 (see paras. 183-184).

Financial operations

41. This section presents UNRWA's actual financial operations in 1979 and itsbudgeted operations in 1980. In 1979 total income received was $152.2 million andtotal actual expenditure was $158.9 million, leaving a deficit of $6.7 million.Working capital, which stood at $14.6 million at 1 January 1979, had to be drawndown to cover the deficit, which was incurred despite the reduction of certainservices to refugees, the postponement of some construction projects and thedenial to local staff of some adjustments to cost-of-living allowances. Workingcapital was reduced to $7.9 million at year end (see paras. 185-188).

42. The Agency should have working capital equal to the cost of three months'budgeted cash operations, about $40 million, to permit the smooth operation of itsactivities. This would lessen the risk of the Agency having to suspend operationsabruptly and thus having to increase its liability for termination indemnities to~ocal staff members by some $15 million (see para. 189).

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43. Cash in hand at the end of 1978 and again at the end of 1979 was onlyadequate for about two months, At the end of 1979 unpaid pledges for 1979 orprevious years totalled ~19.3 million. Inventories of supplies and advances tosuppliers stood at $12.9 million at the end of 1979 and accounts payable at~5.6 million (sep raras. 190-191).

44, Provision for local staff separation costs had to be increased in 1979 from$17.3 million to $31.2 million. Budget co!mnitments carri~d forward from 1979 to1980 totalled $9.4 million (see paras. 192·-193).

45. Concerning operations in 1980, the Agency estimated at the begi~ning of theyear that its deficit was $56.8 million. Increases in esticated income, partlyoffset by budgeted increases in expenditure, reduced the estimated deficit by30 June 1980 to $46.9 million. At the end of the reporting period foreseeableincome in 1980 was estimated at ~~164.4 million and budgeted expenditure at$211.3 million. Budgeted expenditure in 1980 on recurrent operations isG53.1 million in pxcess of actual expenditure in 1979. The increase representsprincipally provision for improvements in staff remuneration and the continuingincrease in the cost of non-staff items (see paras. 194-196).

46. The Agency clearly does n.rt have sufficient working capital to cover itsestimated deficit for 1980. Substantial portions of the current budget for 1980will not be implemented unless additional iDcome is received well before the endof the year (see para. 197).

47. The 1980 budget is $211.3 million.~230.9 million, The 1980 budget shows aoriginal estimates, mainly due to rising

The proposed budget for 1981 is set atnet increase of $26.1 million over thestaff costs (see paras. 199-200).

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48. In the budget for 1981 recurrent costs are set at $213.0 million, an increaseof $20.7 million over the budget for 1980. Non-recurrent costs in 1981 areestimated at $17.9 million, a decrease of $1.1 million below the budget for 1980(see paras. 201··203).

49. Staff costs constitute the principal type of expenditure in the Agency1sbudget (69 per cent in 1981). Inflation in staff costs therefore has an importanteffect on the total budget. Apart from increases in unit staff costs largely dueto inflation, increased numbers of staff will be required in the education services(see paras. 204-205).

50. In education services the expected increase in costs in 1981 is mainly due toincreased provision for pay and for the growth of pupil population, about 7,100more than in 1980. In 1981 education will account for about 60 per cent of thetotal budget, compared with 20 per cent for relief services, 16 per cent for healthservices and 4 per cent for other costs (see para. 206).

51. In health services provision has been made to meet the basic needs of aslightly larger population in 1981 but with only a minimal increase in the numberof staff. Provision is included under environmental sanitation for camp improvementschemes of a self-help kind (see para. 207).

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53. The budget for 1981 may have made an under-provision for terminationind~mnitips for loss of pmployment. In the ev~nt of an abrupt suspension of theAgency's operations all local staff would probably become entitled to receive atermination Lnd emni.ty , involving an increase in costs of ever $15 million) forwhich no provision has yet been made (see para. 210).

54. The budget estimates for 1981 are shown in summary in three tables:A - recurrent costs; B - non-recurrent costs; and C - total costs (see para. 211).

55. The cost of general education in 1981 is estimated at $111.0 million comparedwith $87.7 million in 1980. The increase of $21.7 million for recurrp.nt costsreflects in part the continuing growth in the school population and increased staffcosts. The provision of $6.2 million for non-recurrent costs includes the cost ofconstruction of additional class-rooms to avoid triple shifting, of new schools ina few locations, of multi-purpose activity rooms, libraries and sciencelaboratories (see paras. 212-214).

56. The 1981 budget for vocational and professional training is $13.6 millioncompared with ~13.3 million in 1980. The estimates assume a total enrolment of4,700 trainees during 1981. The amount provided for university scholarships is$250,000. Only $0.5 millicn is provided for non-recurrent costs compared with$2.4 million in 1980, since no provision has been made for any construction oftraining facilities in 1981 (see paras. 215-219).

57. $15.2 million is provided for medical services in 1981 compared with$13 ..1 million in 1980. With the rapid increase in costs, the Agency finds itdifficult to prevent the level of health services for refugees falling below thatprovided by host Governments (see paras. 220-222).

58. Supplementary feeding will cost $8.2 million in 1981 compared with $7.5 millionin 1980. For several years the Agency received a special contribution for theprogramme, but since 1979 the contribution has fallen short of the amount requiredto cover the full cost (see paras. 223-225).

59. Environmental sanitation will cost $6.2 million in 1981 compared with$5.1 million in 1980. The Agency is unable to raise existing minimum standards ofsanitation because of rising costs. $0.5 million is provided for capitalimprovements to be constructed with refugee participation in self-help projects(see paras. 226-228).

60. 031.5 million is provided for basic rations in 1981 compared with $45.0 millionin 1980. The costs under this heading include both the value and the finaldistribution of basic rations, but transport and warehousing of rations are chargedto "supply and transport services 1I. The budget fer 1981 makes no provision for thepurchase of commodities to make up the level to that formerly established, whereasthe 1980 budget included $16 million for the purchase of flour for this purpose.The sum provided in the 1981 budget includes $0.9 million for extra flourdistributions to special hardship cases (see paras. 229-231).

61. $1.0 million is provided in 1981 for shelter compared with $1.2 million in1980. Of this, $0.4 million represents rental value of camp sites, most of which is

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62. Special hardship assistance is set at $3.5 million in the 1981 budget comparedwith $1.9 million in the 1980 budget. This item proJides for additional reliefto refugees who suffer from special hardship, but because of the financial pos i.t Ionef the Agency only the most urgent cases can be considered (see paras. 234-236).

63. Common costs in 1981 are estimated at $31.5 million con~a~ed wll.h$26.8 million in 1980, the increase being due mainly to rises in staff coats.Supply and transport services are shown as $11,4 million, other internal servl~es

as $14.5 million and general administration as $5.6 million. OtLcr costs in 19G1are estimated at $9.3 million compared with 09.6 million in 1980. The 1981estimates are to cover adjustment of the provision for local staff separation costs(see paras. 237-247).

64. Estimated income in 1981 is given as $160.5 million compared with$164.4 million in 1980 and the estimated deficit for 1981 is $70.4 million (seeparas. 248-249).

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REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF THE AGENCY FROM1 JULY 1979 TO 30 JUNE 1980

A. Education and trainin~ services

65. Under an agreement between UIffiWA and UNESCO, the latter is responsible forthe professional aspects of the UNRWA/UNESCO education programme, fulfilling itsresponsibility in part by the non-reimbursable loan to U~mWA of directing andspecialist staff, including the Director of Education. At the end of the periodunder review these staff members numbered 13. The UNRWA/UNESCO educationprogramme in 1979/1980 included general education at elementary and preparatory(lower secondary) levels in Agency schools, vocational and teacher training atAgency centres, the work of the Institute of Educbtion and a university scholarshipprogramme. Many refugee children continued their education at the upper secondarylevel in government schools of the host countries or in private schools. InLebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic, book allowances were paid and, where nogovernment secondary school was available, cash gra~ts were made to refugeepupils attending private schools. In 1979, expenditure on education and trainingamounted to $83.4 million and accounted for 52.5 per cent of the Agency's totalexpenditure.

66. In addition, the Agency provides some pre-school education activity(para. 158), youth activH;ies (paras. 159 and 16o). adult training in crafts(paras. 161 and 162), and medical and paramedica2 education and training(paras. 125 and 126).

67. The crisis facing the education programme in 1980, when forecasts of incomewere insufficient to cover the entire school system to the end of 1980, has beendescribed (paras. 6 and 7).

1. General education

68. In 1979/1980, as in previous years, the largest single Agency activity wasgeneral education, and a total of 314,164 pupils (3,080 more than in 1978/1979)were enrolled in the 627 Agency elementary and preparatory schools in Lebanon,the Syrian Arab Republic, east Jordan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, servedby a teaching force of 9,479. A further 87,641 refugee pupils were known to beenrolled in government and private elementary, preparatory and secondary schoolsin the same areas and approximately 41,460 non-eligible children were in Agencyschools (see foot-note a/ to table 9 of annex I). The education staff in eachfield is headed by a Field Education Officer, an UNRWA local staff member,working under the professional guidance of the Director of Education and of thespecialist staff of the Department of Education at headquarters.

69. Double-shifting of schools continued to be a problem and, because of thesteady natural growth in the school population and the Agency's lack of funds

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70. As in the years since 1969, all textbooks newly prescribed or revised byGovernments of host countries were sUbmitted to the Director-General of UNESCOfor approval before they were procured for Agency schools. Tn the West Bank andthe Gaza Strip, where Jordanian and Egyptian books respectively are used, booksapproved by the Director-General are subject to the further requirement of aspecial i~port permit from the Israeli authorities. The situation is describedin gr-eate:.... detail, field by field, in par-agr-aphs 72, 73, 75, 77 and 78 below.

71. In Lebanon, most Agency schools o~ened on the scheduled date of17 September 1979 for the 1979/1980 school year, but schools in the Saida areavere able to open only on 24 September 1979, after evacuation of them by refugeefamilies who had occupied them after fleeing from the Tyre area following Israeliattacks during the previous months. The schools in the Tyre area began acceptingpupils from 17 September 1979 and attendance built up gradually as the refugeesreturned. There was, however, a slower return of refugees to the village ofDamour, south of Beirut, and the four schools there reported barely five per centattendance during the latter part of September 1979. Refugees did not returnto IJabatiyeh, south Lebanon, in sufficient numbers to justify reopening theone Agency school there until October 1979, and then with only about one thirdof its previous enrolment. The remaining two thirds of the Nabatiyeh school pupilswere expected to be accommodated in a newly-rented school in the village ofShihim, near Saida, but this school had not become available by the end of theschool year and the pupils were distributed among the Saida schools. The schoolsoperated relatively smoothly throughout the period 1 October 1979 to27 January 1980, interrupted only by two days of strikes in November 1979, anda one-day strike in January 1980, as a result of political events of significanceto the Palestinians. An increase in civil unrest and external attacks, beginningon 28 January 1980 with artillery shelling of the Tyre area, jnterrupted theoperation of schools. Saida schools were closed for two days and Tyre schoolsfor eight days from 28 January to 31 March 1980 because of artillery shellingon these areas. In April 1980, schools in Beirut did not operate on four daysand schools in north Lebanon did not operate on three days because of armedclashes between opposing factions, while the spring vacation was extended bythree days for schools in Saida and Tyre and for six days for the schools inDamour because of fears of reprisals for a Palestinian attack in Israel. Inaddition, bad weather interrupted the operation of four schools in the Beqa 1 uvalley for one to six days in March 1980 and of the schools in north Lebanon forone day in April 1980. Israeli attacks and continued civil unrest led to furtherdisruptions and '~he loss of up to seven more days of school time during May andJune 1980.

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72. Enrolment in Aeency schools in Lebanon totalled 33,093 -refuge: PU::ls~~~=-'123,955 of whom were in the elementary ana 9,138 in the pre~aratory schools. Ofthe 84 schools, comprising 72R elementary and 297 preparatory class sections with I

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shift. Prescribed textbooks for Afency schools in Lebanon totalled 193, all of •which have been approved by UNESCO.

73. In the Syrian Arab Republic, Agency schools started the year on15 September 1979 and operated satisfactorily during the year. A total of43,792 pupils attended the 66 elementary and 44 preparatory schools. comprising1,159 class sections served by 1,376 teachers. Ninety-one of these schools,involving 1,000 class sections and 38,480 pupils, operated a double shift. Duringthe school year, 13 textbooks were newly prescribed, one of which has not yet beenpublished; of the 12 published 3 were approved by U1~SCO. Of the 113 textbooksin all currently prescribed, 78 have been approved by UNESCO.

74. In east Jordan, the 198 Agency schools commenced the year on 27 August 1979and operated normally throughout the year, except that schools were closed onsix days during the winter months because heavy snowfalls disrupted transportand communications. Hea\~ rain also during winter rendered some school premisesunsafe, necessitating the temporary transfer of students of ~O schools to otherpremises, mostly to nearby government schools, where the Agency schools operateda double shift. Two UNRWA school premises were handed over to the Jordan Ministryof Education because they were in an area where the numbers of refugee pupils haddecreased and non-refugee pupils had increased. At the same time, two newUNRWA schools were opened in a neighbouring area where th~ number of refugeepupils had increased. The total enrolment was 127,920 in the elementary andpreparatory cycles comprising 3,171 class sections served by 3,586 teachers.Double-shifting occurred in 185 schools, involving 2,971 class sections and120,435 pupils.

75.. Under the Jordan Government's new education plan of 1978, 16 textbooks werenewly prescribed in 1979/80 by the Ministry of Education; four have not yet beenpublished, but of the 12 published seven were approved by UNESCO for use inAgency schools. The total number of t.extboc ...s prescribed in Jordan was 126. ofwhich 95 have been approved by UNESCO.

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76. In the West Bank, Agency schools started the school year on 19 August 1979and operated satisfactorily except that the increase in tension and disturbancesresulting from the effects of occupation created general unrest which was notconducive to effective teaching and learning. Incidents such as the threateneddeportation of the Mayor of Nablus by the occupation authorities in November 1979.the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel inFebruary 1980. the events in Hebron in April and May 1980 and the attempts on thelives of three mayors also in May 1980 had their repercussions in unrest anddisruption in the school programme: 39 schools lost from one to 14 daysinstruction time which was compensated for by special programmes of intensivework and additional periods.

77. Enrolment in the 99 Agency schools in the West Bank totalled 37,133 pupilsin 736 elementary and 303 preparatory class sections, served by 1,201 teachers.Fifty-six schools, with 520 class sections and 19,823 pupils, operated a doubleshift. Of the 126 te,,;books prescribed for Jordan, UNESCO approved 95, of YThichthe Israeli occupying authorities refused import permits for 13.

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79. The oreanization by UNESCO of the 1979 secondary school-leaving certificateexamination for pupils in the Gaza Strip, w'ith logistical support from the UNRHAfield office in Gaza, was interrupted by the Israeli authorities' decision to expelall members of the UNESCO supervising team from the Gaza Strip on 1 July 1979. Theexaminations were therefore not completed under the supervision of UNESCO. In 1980these examinations took place without involvement of either UNESCO or UNRHA staff.

2. Vocational and technical education

80. A further small increase was registered in the number of training placesavailable to Palestine refugees in the vocational and technical courses conductedin lmffiTA training centres, bringing the tr~ining capacity to 3,460. The increase,a net total of 24 places, was achieved by extending the double-shift system at theiTadi Seer Training Centre (Jordan) and Gaza Vocational Training Centre to includeadditional class sections in existing courses (Autobody Repairer at Wadi Seer andBuilder/Shutterer at Gaza), and by allowing the Refrigeration and Airconditioningcourse at Siblin to build up to full capacity with the addition of one class section.It may be noted here that Wadi Seer Training Centre accepted female trainees forthe first time this school year. At present six girls are enrolled in theLaboratory Technician course, another seven in the Architectural Draughtsman courseand four more in the Quantity Surveyor course (total 17). It is hoped to extendthis arrangement to other centres (Damascus Vocational Training Centre introducedit several years ago) and to other courses. Details of the training placesavailable in the Agenoy training centres in 1979/80 by course, centre and year ofstudy are given in table 13 of annex I. In addition, the Agency sponsored thevocational training of 51 refugees in private institutions.

31. Thanks to a generous contribution of $2,470,900 from the OPEC Fund specificallyfor vocational and technical education, the Agency can continue to expand theprogramme, and this contribution, coupled with decisions taken by UNRHA during theyear, will raise the training capacity to 3,904 by 1982/83~ an increase of 444 overthe present level. The OPEC Fund contribution has also made it possible for the

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Agency to implement plans for the establishment of an Instructor Training Unit atthe vladi Seer Training Centre. This will enable the Agency to intensify thein-service training of vocational and technical instructors, and bring about asicnificant improvement in the qualitative aspects of the training programme.

82. As in previous years, the operation of all centres, except the DamascusVocational Trairi.ng Centre, has been affected to some extent by disturbances suchas protest demo! " .rations and strikes. However, there has been a considerableimprovement at 2 Siblin Training Centre in Lebanon. Several factors, includinga change in t·l.~ administration of the Centre, have contributed to this. Althoue;hsome courses carried over large losses in training time from last year and thestart of the current school year for the new intake was delayed by several weeksbecause of the security situation, the calmer atmosphere at the Centre has enabledcompensation plans to be implemented and the courses should be on schedule by theend of the present school year (August). The Amman and liadi Seer Training Centres(Jordan) lost nine training days during the year, six when the centres were closedbecause of heavy snowfalls during winter, and three when the centres were againclosed as a precaution on the occasion of "Land Dayil (29-31 March). The threecentres in the occupied territories, namely the Gaza Vocational Training Centre,Kalandia Vocational Training Centre and Ramallah Women's Training Centre, have allbeen seriously affected by the prevailing civil unrest and demonstrations, includingprotests and strikes over such events as those described in paragraph 76 above andproposals to establish more Israeli settlements on Arab land, especially in Hebron.Consequently, during the year the Gaza centre lost nine days' instruction time,Kalandia 42 and the R&lliallah Women's Centre 30 days. On a number of other days theWest Bank centres suffered from partial attendance of the trainees. The RamallahWomen's Training Centre reopened on 1 September 1979 after its enforced closure on13 March 1979 by the Israeli authorities. 1/ In order to compensate for the losttraining time, courses which should have b;en completed by the end of July 1979 wereextended until the beginning of November 1979. This delayed enrolment of the newstudents until 5 November 1979,' so that, even before the previously mentionedinterruptions occurred, the centre faced the task of compensating for at least nineweeks of instruction.

83. Work opportunities for graduates of the Agency's vocational and technicaleducation training centres continued to be excellent. The demand for trainingplaces from Palestine refugees eligible for this form of assistance rises each yearand less than 20 per cent (approximately 1,900) of those applying can be acceptedbecause of the limited capacity. Clearly there is ample justification for a large­scale expansion of the programme, but only limited expansion is possible given theAgency's present financial resources.

3. Teacher training

84. The teacher-training activities aim primarily at providing qualified teachersfor Agency schools. Teachers are needed continuously to meet the increase in thenumber of pupils and to make up for teachers who leave the Agency's service throughretirement, death or resignation. The teacher-training sections of the Agencytraining centres accept Palestine refugee candidates who have successfully completed

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12 years of general schoolinr;, and provide them with a two-year professionaltraininr; programme which qualifies them to teach at the elementary school level.Graduates of these centres are given priority for Agency appointments. If fl~ther

elementary school teachers are needed, the Agency then resorts to employinguniversity or high school graduates. As these candidates usually lack professionalqualifications, the Agency arranges basic in-service teacher-training courses forthem through the UNR1'TA/lffilESCO Institute of Education, which forms part of theDepartment's Teacher and Higher Education Division. For the preparatory level,where teachers specialize in individual subjects, the Agency either recruitsuniversity graduates who, if without professional training, are enrolled in aprofessional one-year in-service training course organized by the Institute ofEducation, or upgrades qualified elementary school teachers and enrols them in atwo-year in-service subject specialization course.

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85. During 1979/1980, pre-service teacher tr9ining continued to be provided atfour A~ency centres - one in Amman, Jordan, two in Ramallah, West Bank, and one inSiblin, Lebanon. Enrolment totalled 1,240, made up of 590 males and 650 females(see table 13 of annex I for details). Operations at the Amman and Siblin centres,rere satisfactory, with the former losing only nine days' instruction throughoutthe year and the latter only four, which, for Siblin, represented a significantimprovement over the situation of previous years, although the enrolment of the newintake of teacher trainees was delayed until 19 November 1979 because of the needto set special entrance tests. As described in paragraph 82 above for vocationaltraining, teacher trainin~ at the West Bank centres suffered serious interruptionsas a result of the strikes and demonstrations over events which were of politicalsignificance to the Palestinian community. Thus, the Ramallah Men's TeacherTraining Centre lost 47 days' instruction and the Ramallah Women's Training Centre30 days. This created a serious situation for the Women's Centre, which hadenrolled its new students on 5 November 1979 after the graduation of the previoussecond-year trainees whose training had been extended to November 1979 followingthe enforced closure of the centre by the Israeli authorities from 13 March to31 August 1979.

86. The Jordan Government introduced a new study plan for its teacher-traininginstitutions in 1979/1980, and the Agency's centres in Amman and Ramallah introducedwhat new subject content could be included within existing time allotments and staffmanning tables, pending a comprehensive study Gf the new plan. A conference ofAgency field education officers, teacher-training centre principals, chiefinstructors and the headquarters staff members concerned was held to examine allaspects of the new stu~y plan and other proposals to improve the quality of teachertraining in Agency centres. As a result of the conference's recommendations, theAGency decided to adopt the major part of the Jordan Government's plan for itsteacher-training centres in Jordan, including the West Bank, as from 1980/1981.

G7. At the end of 1978/1979 training year, 590 teacher trainees (287 men and303 women) graduated from the pre-service training centres. By 30 June 1980, 329 ofthem 1.ere employed in Agency schools (155 in east Jordan, 63 in West Bank, 101 inGaza, and 10 in Lebanon), and 84 were known to have found employment outside theAgency, making a total of 68.3 per cent of the 1979 graduates 10lOwn to be employed.Ninety-one male graduates were undergoing compulsory military training in Jordan,46 wer-e known to be without employment and the employment status of 50 graduateswas unknown,

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88. The UNRWA/UNESCO Institute of Education continued to be the main body withinthe Agency to provide in-service training of education staff. Enrolment of suchstaff in Institute courses increased by 30.8 per cent over 1978/79, reaching1,015 in 1979/1980: 46 in the two-year basic course for unqualified elementaryschool teachers, 165 in specialized preparatory-teacher training courses, 546 inspecial courses to meet curricular changes, 75 in courses for key educationpersonnel and 183 in refresher and ad hoc courses. Of the cumulative total of4,560 teachers who have participated so far in the Institute's basic in-serviceprofessional courses for elementary teachers, 3,650 successfully completed theirtraining and were recognized by the Agency as qualified elementary teachers andwere graded accordingly. At the same time, 2,510 preparatory teachers, out of acumulative total of 3,368 participants, successfully completed specializedpreparatory-level in-service courses and were recognized as qualified preparatoryteachers and also graded accordingly.

89. Following the establishment of the Teacher and Higher Education Divisionresponsible for both pre-service and in-service training, a concerted effort wasmade to strengthen the integration of the two aspects of teacher trainine. Amongthe joint ventures carried out were a seminar on selected innovations in teachereducation for teacher-training instructors, school and subject supervisors~ andfield tutors in Jordan, an in-service course for teacher-training instructors inthe Siblin Training Centre (Lebanon), the preparation of instructional material toserve both, and the publication of a journal entitled Student/Teacher.

90. The UNESCO Extension Services Unit, which provided technical services tointerested Arab in-service teacher-training projects in the region, ceased tofunction on 31 December 1979, following a decision by m~DP to establish a regionalcentre for the development of in-service teacher training in the Arab States; theproposed regional centre would take over the services previously provided by theExtension Services Unit. During the reporting period, the Unit's main activity wasa second workshop for llriters of instructional materials for in-service teacher­training courses. Representatives from four Arab States attended the workshop whichwas held from 22 July to 16 August 1979 in Amman. Other activities includedassistance to the Syrian Department of Continuous Training and the United ArabEmirates' Ministry of Education in planninr, and implementing in-service trainingactivities, and utilization of the services of a short-term consultant to developprocedures and tools for the identification of the training needs of teachers inAgency service.

91. The two Education Development Centres, established in Jordan and the Gaza Stripin 1974, continued their efforts to improve the quality of education provided byUNRWA schools in their respective fields. In co-ordination with the Teacher andHigher Education Division, the centres conducted in-service training courses forvarious categories of educational personnel. In addition, they carried outsupervision of teachers in elementary and preparatory schools and promotededucational development projects aimed at achieving more effective teaching andlearning in schools through the preparation of curriculum enrichment materials, theproduction of audio-visual aids and evaluation tools, and the provision of libraryand documentation services.

92. In addition to these in-service training courses, the Department of Educationorganized various staff training activities which took the form of conferences,workshops, seminars and short courses for teachers, teacher-training instructors

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and school and subject supervisors. During 1979/1980, 38 such activities wereorgani~ed involvinr, 1,900 education staff in ~ll fields. Furthermore, 18 seniorPalestinian education staff members were awarded fellowships for overseas studyaimed at improving their professional competence; of these 14 were awarded bymmsco and 4 by UNRHA.

t,. University scholarshi"ps

93. During the academic year 1979/1980, U}IR1JA awarded 354 scholarships to Palestinerefugees for studY at Arab universities, of which 287 were continuing scholarshipsand 67 were new awards (see table 14 of annex I). The UNR1fA scholarships, partlyfunded from special contributions, are awarded for one year, but are renewable fromyear to year for the duration of the course of studY, provided the student passesthe end-of-year university examinations and is promoted to the next stage of hiscourse.

94. By its resolution 3t,/52 C of 23 November 1979, the General Assembly, appealed,inter alia, to all r1ember States and United Nations agenc i es to make specialallocations, scholarships and grants to Palestine refugees and requested UNRWA toreceive hold in trust and award the~. The Secretary-GeneralIs report to theAssembly will describe the response in detail.

B. Health services

95. Preventive and curative services were provided to eligible Palestine refugeesat the 100 UNRFA health units and by special arrangement at 15 government and twovoluntary agency clinics. Other medical services to eligible refugees weresubsidized at ~overnment, university and private health institutes. The extent ofutilization of these services is influenced by the accessibility of the units tothe intended beneficiaries and by the availability of alternative government andother services at little or no cost.

1. Medical care

96. Curative services, both in- and out-patient, were extended at about the samelevel as in previous years, except that their delivery was interrupted from time totime by military activities in south Lebanon and disturbances in the West Bank ofJordan. Statistical data in respect of the out-patient care directly provided bythe Agency are shown in table 5 of annex 1.

97. The Agency operates 24 dental clinics and continues to strengthen its specialistclinics where patients with degenerative and chronic diseases are seen by appointmentand proper fo.l.Lov--up is ensured. There are now 84 such clinics: 28 formalnutrition, 20 for diabetes, 12 for tuberculosis, 11 for eye diseases, 7 forrheumatic diseases, 3 for ear, nose and throat, 2 for cardio-vascular conditions and1 for dermatology. •

98. Laboratory facilities were further improved. In addition to operating thethree central UNRWA laboratories in Gaza, Amman and Jerusalem, the Agency has23 clinical laboratories where simple on-the-spot tests are carried out. Fifteen of

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99. The Agency continued to operate a small hospital or 36 beds in Qalqiliya (HestDank ) and nine camp maternity wards , the majority in the Gaza Strip. It alsoaQministers, jointly with the Public Health Department in Gaza, a tuberculosishospital at Bureij wbere the bed conlplement was reduced to the actual need of

.70 beds. lJl'TRTJA continued to secure the necessary Ln-ipat.Lerrt care facilitiest.hrough subsidies to p;overnment and private hospitals. As set forth in detail intable 6 of annex I, the daily averap;e number of hospital beds made available torefugee patients during the year was 1,446. The risinp. cost of medical careentailed substantial increases in almost all subsidy rates paid by U;TI\\-!A. Inaddition to the subsidized facilities, an undetermined nwuber of refur,ee patientsdirectly sought admission to government hospitals at nominal cost, particularlY inthe Syrian Arab Republic. In Jordan the Ministr~r of Health suspended, with effectfrom January 1980, the collection of fees from refuree patients referred to itshospitals by Agency medical officers. The collection or fees from refugee patientswas reinstated in June. The Agency is negotiating with the Government new terms ofagreement covering this service.

100. In Gaza, the Agency maintained its refund scheme for refugee patientshospitalized in government institutions in Gaza or Israel. The number of claimsfor financial help substantially decreased as many refu~ees joined the GovernmentNational Health Insurance Plan.

101. In Lebanon an acute shortage of hospital beds persists, since many of thehospitals became inaccessible to Palestine refugees. However, in Beirut most of thediffic~lt cases continue to be referred to the r1edical Centre of the AmericanUniversity of Beirut and a good number of refugees requirinr, emergency or sur~ic2~

attention directly seek admission to institutions operated by the Palestine RedCrescent Society.

102. The Agency provides, to a limited extent, for medical rehabilitation ofcrippled children in specialized institutions, as well as for orthopaedic devices.Contributions from voluntary agencies ususally help to meet the cost of appliances.

2. Control of communicable diseases

103. Prevention and control of communicable diseases are among the main concerns ofthe Agency's Department of Health. An expanded programme of immunization forms anintegral part of the Agency's maternal and child health (r1CH) services. Smallchildren attending the clinics are thus protected against tUberculosis, diphtheria,tetanus, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, enteric fevers, measles and smallpoxo

Following the recent declaration by 1iHO of the global eradication of smallpox,immunization against this disease was discontinued early in 1980. Reinforcing dosesof vaccines are given to children on admission to school.

101~. Among the control measures of public health importance are the improvement ofenvironmental conditions, the emphasis on personal hygiene through health educationactivities, particularly in schools and in health centres, and the administration of

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specific chemotherapy and chemoprophylaxis. The incidence of communicable diseasesamong the refugee population has been kept under surveillance since the verybeginning of the Agency's operations. In disease surveillance and control closeco-operation is maintained with the government health authorities.

105. This year a few cases of cholera were reported among refugees in Jordan andthe Syrian Arab Republic and all were cured. Two imported cases of malaria werereported. A substantial drop was observed in the number of reported cases ofpoliomyelitis, infectious hepatitis, whooping cough, measles and mumps. There waslittle change in the incidence of enteric fevers, trachoma, conjunctivitis andother communicable diseases.

106. The Agency operates a comprehensive tuberculosis control programme, includingcase detection, hospital and domiciliary treatment and follow-up of cases and theircontacts. The incidence of respiratory tuberculosis has for several years beenabout one case per 10,000 population eligible for health services. A number ofnon-respiratory tuberculosis cases was reported from Jordan and Gaza and specifictreatment was given.

3. Maternal and child health

107. Maternal and child health care is provided in most UNRWA health centres,supported by specialist and hospital referral services. A number of government andvoluntary agencies supplemented Agency services, especially in Amman, Damascus andJerusalem. In Gaza, the Swedish Save the Children Federation continued to supportthe MCH and planned parenthood programme. To strengthen this programme, plannedparenthood activities were integrated into the ~1CH services in six health centresin the Gaza Strip. Data on maternal and child health services are presented intable 7 of annex I.

108. Prenatal care, including regular health superv~s~on and the issue of extrarations and iron-folate tablets, was extended to 30,654 women. Assistance wasprovided for 31,869 deliveries, the majority of which were attended at home byAgency-supervised dayahs (traditional midwives) or carried out in UNRWA maternitycentres; hospital deliveries were reserved mainly for women at risk of a complicateddelivery.

109. On the average, 99,500 children up to three years of age were registered forchild care. Health supervision in MCH clinics included continuous monitoring ofgrowth and feeding practices. Primary and reinforcing immunizations were givenagainst the eight important diseases listed in paragraph 103 above. Nutrition ofchildren was promoted through educational activities in UNRWA MCH clinics andthrough the provision of hot meals at UNRWA feeding centres. The programme of drymilk distribution now includes all children up to three years of age (seepara. 123). About 1,730 children suffering from diarrhoeal diseases, with orwithout malnutrition, were treated in the Agency's 21 rehydration/nutrition centres.The number of malnutrition clfnics is now 28: 5 in east Jordan, 14 in the West Bank,6 in the Syrian Arab Republic, and 3 in Gaza.

110. The health centres and the school health teams (three in the Jordan field andone in each uf the four other fields) provided school health services for childrenin Agency elementary and preparatory schools (see annex I, table 7 C). Medical

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111. In each field, a team of health education workers promoted the healtheducation prograrmne with the participation of health, education and welfare staff.Their activities in health centres, schools, welfare centres and camp communitieswere supported by camp and school health committees and included camp sanitationdrives and disease prevention campaigns. Activities in relation to theInternational Year of the Child continued throughout the year. The Health Calendarfor 1980, used primarily in Agency schools but also in other Agency installations,had as its theme the handicapped child, with special stress on prevention ofdiseases and accidents causing disability and physical handicaps.

112. In Gaza a course on "Health and Fami.Ly Life" was conducted in Agencypreparatory schools. Classes in mother and child care were included in the sewingcourses for young women in all fields. World Health Day was celebrated Agency-wideon the theme "Smoking or health - the choice is yours il

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113. The nursing services in each of the five fields continue to form an integralpart of the Agency's health services, both curative and preventive. Auxf.Li.a.rynursing staff members were extensively employed in all the activities rel~ted tothe health programme. Dayahs continue to carry out a large proportion of thepost-natal care as well as the home deliveries. In-service training and continuingeducation of the different categories of nursing staff, essential to good standardsof care, were carried out in different areas. In addition, post basic educationwas made available to some staff members, sponsored by voluntary agencies.

5. Environmental health

114. The Agency continued to provide basic community sanitation services in thecamps, comprising mainly the provision of potable water, sanitary disposal of waste,drainage of storm water, latrine facilities and control of insect and rodentvectors of disease. More than 682,000 camp inhabitants in 61 locations havebenefited from these services. In spite of the formidable financial difficultiesfaced by the Agency, sanitary conditions in the refugee camps continued to improve.

115. The Agency lent financial and technical support to self-help programmes suchas the paving of pathways and the construction of surf~~e drains and sewers invarious camps. During the period under review such schemes, which are executed withsubstantial community participation, benefited 10 camps in Lebanon, 4 in the SyrianArab Republic, 2 in east Jordan, 14 in the West Bank and 7 in the Gaza Strip. Asignificant achievement of the programme has been reached at Mieh ~tieh Camp in

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116. The programme of replacement of communal latrines by private ones is almostcomplete. However , the Aeency corrt i rrrd to provide financial assistance selectivelyto a limited number of additional refuge~ families resultinp, from normal populationgrowt.h , The municipal sewerage schemes at Amman Nevl and Jabal el-Hussein camps inJordan and Shu'fat Camp in the Hest Bank are progressing steadily. Agency­subsidized self-help sewerage schemes have been initiated at Ein el-Hilweh andBurj el-Barajneh camps in Lebanon where the refugees are eager to have thisfacility.

117. The self-help programme for private water connexions to refu~ee shelters madeprogress in 15 camps in the West Bank, 2 in the Gaza Strip, 2 in the Syrian ArabRepublic, 5 in east Jordan and 1 in Lebanon. About 52 per cent of the camppopulation are currently served by indoor tap-water. A scheme involving drillingof a deep well, installation of a pumping station, construction of a water towerand provision of indoor taps to all shelters has recently been completed by therefugees at vlavel Camp in Lebanon with assistance from +'he Agency. The Governmentof Jordan is executing a water augmentation scheme at Suf Camp, which is likely toprovide indoor taps in due course. A similar scheme financed by the Government isplanned for Jalazone Camp in the West Bank.

118. In the Syrian Arab Republic, a programme for providing adequate water forAgency installations in four camps is being financed and executed by the Agency.Schemes for Jaramana and Khan Eshieh camps, where schools, clinics and supplementaryfeeding centres were suffering from water shortaees, have been completed, whilesimilar schemes, involving drilling of deep wells, are being implemented in theSbeineh and Khan Danoun camps.

119. A programme for further improvement of refuse collection and removal facilitiesin various camps in the fields is under study; its ~radual implementation willdepend on the availability of funds.

6. Nutrition, including supplementary feeding

120. Constant supervision, protection and promotion of the nutritional status ofthe refugees is an important feature of the Agency's health services directedparticularly at the most vulnerable groups of refugees: infants, pre-school andschool children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, non-hospitalized tuberculosispatients and some others. Growth development of children attending the child healthclinics through regular weight measurements is closely observed. The data collectedduring the year show a satisfactory general nutritional state in most refugeechildren, comparable with that of the residents of the host countries~ although asizable percentage of refugee childYen suffer from mild or moderate degrees ofmalnutrition, also similar to those in host countries. A relatively high proportionof infants and children, as well as pregnant women and nursir..g mot.her s , withmoderate-ta-low levels of haemoglobin suggests the presence of widely-spread iran­deficiency anaemia.

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122. At the 87 UNRWA supplementary feeding centres and four voluntary agencycentres nutritionally balanced hot midday meals are served six days a week torefugee children up to the age of eight and, on medical grounds, to older childrenand adults also. A special high-protein high-calorie diet is also availabledaily to infants and children suffering from diarrhoea or malnutrition. Vitamin Aand D capsules are issued with the hot meals .

123. ~fuole and skim milk are distributed in dry form to non-breast-fed infants upto six months and to all children from six to 36 months attending the child healthclinics. Over 50,000 children take advantage of this programme.

124. In Jordan, as in previous years, the Agency continued to provide, on behalfof the Government and on a reimbursable basis, milk and hot meals for displacedpersons (other than UNRWA-registered refugees) living in the camps establishedin 1967.

7. Medical and paramedical education and training

125. In the 1979/1980 scholastic year, 164 refugee students held UNR1vA medicaluniversity scholarships (see annex I, table 14), and 151 refugee trainees wereenrolled in laboratory ~echnician, public health inspector and assistantpharmacist courses in Agency training centres. Of these, 29 university studentsand 73 trairees either successfully completed their courses of study or wereexpected to pass their qualifying examinations.

126. The Agency continued to pay a subsidy to one school of nursing ir. the area.Financial assistance was provided to a number of stUdent nurses fromcontributions received for this purpose. Six sponsored student nurses enrolledin basic nursing training graduated during the year under review, and 10 arepursuing their training.

127. Intensive in-service training of doctors, nurses, midw~ves, sanitation andsupplementary feeding staff was carried out. Within the framework of aWHO-sponsored training and fellowship programme for health personnel, fourmedical officers were granted fellowships by the WHO Eastern MediterraneanRegional Office for public health training in the academic year 1979/80, and twoWHO fellows completed their public health training in August 1979. Three medicalofficers were granted special study-leave of six, 10 ~nd 12 months' durationfor specialization in paediatrics, surgery and ear, nose and throat respectively.WHO-sponsored seminars were held in the West Bank and Gaza in December for thebenefit of UNRWA medical officers, and two 1iHO consultants lectured on breast­feeding and oral rehydration therapy. A five-day seminar was held in August for30 science teachers in Gaza participating in the school health programme for thethird grade in boy's preparatory schools. T~o senior staff nurses from Jordancompleted a one-year post-basic midwifery training course in Amman and three areundergoing the same training there. A number of practical nurses from West Bankand Gaza attended 8. three-month in-service training course in ophthalmology at theSt. John Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem.

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C. Relief services

128. The ABency1s relief services comprise the distribution of basic rations, theprovision of or assistali~c with shelter in individual cases of special hardship orin such s~ecial circumstances as the displacement of refugees or large-·scaledestruction or damage of shelters, and hardship and welfare assistance. Theservices are providp'Q to registered and certain other eligible categories ofPalestine refuGees and some to displaced persons.

129. In Lebanon the Agency's relief programme continued to be disrupted by fightinginvolving the Lebanese Army, the Arab Deterrent Force, Lebanese and Palestinianirregular militias and the Israeli military forces. The intermittent closure ofBeirut port resulted in the routing of nearly all the supplies for Lebanon, theSyrian Axab Republic and Jordan through Syrian and Jordanian ports. Staff have beenredeployed to cope with the new arrangements, which have caused delays andadditional expenditure a.Lt hough it is planned to continue i'lith them until thesituation in Lebanon returns to norme.L, Supplyine; Lebanon from Syrian ports hasbeen complicated by the frequent closure of the most direct routes because of thesecurity situation.

130. The frequent operations by Israeli land, sea and air forces and shelling fromthe enclcve in south Lebanon controlled by Lebanese irregular militia have curtailedthe Ae;ency's operations in sou~h Lebanon. The refugees residing there, who had flednorth in I'Iarch 1978 as a result of the Israeli military action at that time andreturned in June 1978, left again in the early months of 1979 and mostly remainedin temporary accommodation in the town of Sidon and the surrounding area, which isstill subject to intermittent shelling from the enclave.

131. An appeal for funds to enable the Agency to provide assistance to theserefugees received a favourable response from the Governments of Austria, Denmark,the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland and the Middle East Council of ChurchesThe Agency was thus able to give la kg of flour and 500 grams of skimmed milk toeach of 48,452 refugees in the Tyre area and Damour during May-July 1979, at anapproxfr-at.e cost of ~'l25 ,000; la kg of flour, 375 grams of cooking oil, 600 grams ofsugar and 500 grams of rice to each of 151,011 refugees in the Tyre area, Nabatiehand Damour during August-December 1979, at an approximate cost of $255,000; and5 kg of flour to each of 30,992 refugees ;n the Tyre area during April and May 1980,at an approximate cost of $52,000. In adaition the Agency is making small cashgrants to refugee families in Rashidieh, BurJ Shamali and el Buss camps to assistthem in purchasing materials to repair their shelters damaged in the fighting.

132. In the West Bank, curfews, road blocks and other actions by the Israelimilitary occupation authorities and demonstrations, strikes and disturbances by thelocal inhabitants and refugees interfered with the Agency's operations by causingdelays and interruptions to programmes.

1. Eligibility and registration

133. The number of regugees registered 1fith the Agency on 30 June 1980 was1 ,841f , 318 compared with 1,803,564 on 30 June 1979, an increase of 2.26 per cent.The A~ency registration records are computerized and the cli~~bility of refugeesfor Agency services is continually revised and kept up to date. However, except for

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potentially eare now adultcontinues toeast Jordan,para. 135 beArab Republifamilies recAgency in Decompared witduplicate retraining cenpreviously rregistered religible refeach month bto a refugeechild previo

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its ovm employees and their dependants (estimated to total 80,000 refu~ees), theAgency is unable, without the agreement and co-operation of the authoritiesthroup,hout its area of operations, to investigate income to establish elifibilityfor Agency services or tc, C''J'.'ry out full investigations to determine employrr.entstatus. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, programmes for partial rectificationof the re~istratioil records for income, deaths or absence from the area aresuccessful and updating of the res;istration records is an ons;oing :process.Tables 1 to 4 of annex I give statistics of registered refugees, the categoriesof services to which they are entitled and changes in the composition andentitlement of refugee families as recorded by the Agency.

2. Rations

134. Because of difficulties encountered in the continuing process of rectificationof ration rolls and their financial implications, a limit or ceiling has beenmaintained on the number of ration recipients in Jordan since 1953, and in theother fields since 1963, new beneficiaries being added only when deletions aremade. As a result, with the natural increase in the refugee population, thepercentage of rer;istered refugees receiving rations has fallen, and the number ofpotentially eligible children of refugees aged 1 year and over (some of whomare now adults) for whom no ration is permanently available within the ~eiling

continues to grow. By June 1980, this category totalled 587,197: 319,588 ineast Jordan, of whom 37,329 are elis;ible to receive government rations (seepara. 135 below); 92,066 in the Hest Bank; 54,399 in Lebanon; 76,630 in the SyrianArab Republic; and 45,114 in the Gaza Strip, of whom 1,517 were members of Gazafamilies receiving rations in the West Bank. The number of rations issued by theAgency in Decelnber 1979 was 823,897, including issues made on an emergency basis,compared with 829,071 in December 1978. Deletions on grounds of false andduplicate registration, death, absence, employment or graduation from UNRWAtraining centres were largely offset by the addition of eligible children notpreviously receiving rations because of ration ceilings. Only 45 per cent ofregistered refugees were in receipt of rations in June 1980 and lists of thoseeligible refugees who are authorized to receive rations are brought up to dateeach month by computer print-out. It should be kept in mind that any ration deniedto a refugee presently receiving it is transferred to an eligible needy refugeechild previously excluded from receiving it because of the ration ceiling.

135. In Jordan the Agency, as requested by the Government in 1967, has continuedto distribute rations on the Government's behalf to displaced persons who are notregistered with the Agency as Palestine refugees. In June 1980, the number of suchpersons issued with rations was 193,607, as compared with 193,784 in June 1979.In addition, 37,208 children of displaced West Bank refugee families in east Jordan,the majority of whom live outside camps, were also issued with rations providedby the Government. The Agency co-operates with the Jordanian Government in thesetasks, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967(and subsequent resolutions) requesting the As;ency to provide humanitarianassistance, as far as practicable, to persons other than refugees who were displacedin 1967. The cost of rations and 50 per cent of the distribution and transportcosts are borne by the Government of Jordan. Displaced persons residing in thepost·-1967 camps (known also as "emergency camps" ) benefit also from medical,sanitation and other Agency camp services. Many of their children attend AS;encyschools and benefit from the supplementary feeding and milk programme againstreimbursement of the cost of supplies by the Government.

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136. For financiAl l"C'a::;ou::; ani!. prublems ar~s~ng from the late arrival of donatedfood commodities, it became necessary in early 1978 to reduce the flourcomponent of the basic ration from 10 ke per month to the equivalent of 6.7 kgper month. At the end of 1978. once again for financial reasons. it became clearthat the basic ration could not exceed such commodities as the Agency receivedas contributions in kind; all Agency funds were needed for greater priority itemsand could no longer be used to purchase additional quantities of food--stuffs.Thus the flour component of the basic ration was reduced to an average of 4.7 kgper month in 1979 and 5.0 kg per month in 1980. The level of other commoditiesin the basic ration also had to be adjusted in 1979 because of delays in thedelivery of contributions in kind. The policy adopted by the Agency is todistribute available basic commodities between the five operational fields toensure) as far as practicable. that every refugee who is entitled to draw basicrations receives the same quantity of each commodity in the course of a calendaryear. Certain categories of welfare cases, however, continue to receive extrarations as described in paragraph 137. In 1979 the quantities issued to eachbasic ration recipient by field were as follows:

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Jordan (east) 56.000 4.050 3.100 6.100

Syrilln Arab Republic 61.000 4.275 0.900 6.000

Lebanon 56.000 4.275 2.700 5.000

137. The programme for making up the flour component of the basic ration to 10 kgper month for certain categories of welfare cases, which commenced in east Jordan,the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1978, was extended to the other components ofthe basic ration in 1979; when supplies permitted. the refugees in this categoryreceived 500 ~rams of rice. 600 grams of sugar and 375 grams of cooking oil permonth. In the Syrian Arab Republic and in Lebanon the Agency would only be ableto implement a similar programme for welfare cases if it obtained fullco-operation from the Syrian Government and the Palestine Liberation Organizationrespectively.

3. Camps and shelters gj

138. The population of the 51 camps established before 1967 increased from

2/ Attention is invited to paras. 55-57 of the annual report for the period1 July 1970 to 30 June 1971 (Official Records of the General AssemblY, Twenty-sixthSession. Supplement No. 13 (A/8413). in which the origin and nature of thePalestine refugee camps and the relationship and limited responsibilities of U}TRWAtowards them are explained. In particular. it was explained in para. 57 that theI1camps were constructed on government land or on private land made available (withone or two minor exceptions) by the Governments. which remained responsible for the

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519 0724 to 528,314. In the 10 post-1967 camps (six in east Jurdan and fOUT in theSyrian Arab Republic) accommodating refugees and other persons displaced as aresult of the 1967 hosti1ities o the population also showed an increase from153,699 last year to 159,345 at present. The number of registered refugees livingin camps represented 35.3 per cent of the registered refugee population, varyingfrom 55.5 per cent in the Gaza Strip and 51.5 per cent in Lebanon to only25.9 per cent in the West Bank because of the continuing presence in east Jordanof mm1Y former West Bank refugees, who fled the West Bank in 1967 and have beenprevented by the Government of Israel from returning. Table 1 of annex I providesdetailed statistics on the distribution of the refugee population.

139. In Jordan minor repairs to camp roads were carried out at the cost of $18.620.Ten prefabricated classrooms were constructed at the cost of approximately $50.000.Boundary walls were also constructed around the new girls school in the Baqa'scamp at the cost of $9,760. Four prefabricated units used as a health centre atJarash camp were renovated at the cost of $8,420. In the camps with prefabricatedshelters 9 the Agency repaired (at a total cost of $7,510) 127 shelters occupied byrefugees so poor that they could not afford the repair. Twenty self-help projectswere completed at a total cost of $119 9600, of which $12,200 were contributed bythe Agency and the remainder by the refugee communitY9 the Government of Jordan orother local sources.

140. In the Syrian Arab Republic the Agency constructed Cl' re~aired roads in campsin the Damascus area at a cost of approximately $28,000. Thirty-two classrooms,four science laboratories, two multi-purpose rooms and three school administrationrooms were constructed at a cost of approximately $416,000. A feeding centre inKhan Dannoun Camp (approximate cost $43,000) and water towers in Jaramanah andSbeineh camps (approximate cost $20,000) were also constructed. The Governmentconstructed 15 classrooms and five administration rooms for use by the Agency.Refugees built shelters on government-donated sites in Homs City, Hama and KhanEshieh camps. The Government repaired roads in various caraps at an approximatecost of $4,200. Pathways and drains were constructed in Sbeineh, Qabr Essit andNairab camps on a self-help basis at a total approximate cost of $75,000 9 of whichapproximately $27.000 were contributed by the Agency and the remainder by therefugee community.

141. In Lebanon the Agency's operation was handicapped by clashes in the southern

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maintenance of law and order and similar governmental functions as part of theirnormal responsibilities towards the population within their borders •.• ". It isalso desirable to distinguish between three categories of buildings in camps:i.nstallations constructed or rented by the Agency (for example. schools, clinicsand stores) which are in the possession of the Agency and used by it for thepurpose indicated; shelters (huts) constructed by the Agency, which are thedwellings of and in the possession of refugees, who have maintained them in repairand, in many cases, added to and improved them; and shelters and other buildingsconstructed and occupied or otherwise used by refugees (or others), for some ofwhich the Agency may at most have given some assistance at the time they wereconstructed. It should be noted also that some camps contain large numbers ofpersons who are not registered refugees or even registered camp population (seeannex I, table 4).

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part of the country whi ch continued throughout the year under report and byintermittent outbreaks of fighting elsewhere, mainly in the Beirut area. Theclashes in south Lebanon caused damage to Agency installations and refugeeshelters. Some 2,000 shelters were damaged or destroyed and a self-help programmeof reconstruction and repair is underway towards which the Agency is providingcash erants totalling approximately ~180,000. The schools in Burj Shamali andRashidieh camps and the rehydration centre in Rashidieh camp were damaged byshellfire and have been or are still being repaired. The clinic and the milk/feedine; centre in Nahr el-Bared camp in north Lebanon were badly damaged byshellfire from Israeli gunboats and temporary repairs have been made to keep thesewlits operating pending final repairs.

142. The Agency repaired roads in Nahr el-Bared and Ein el-Hilweh camps at a costof approximately $19,000 and constructed drains and sewers in Ein el-Hilweh campat an approximate cost of :~5, 000 . Twelve classrooms, two administration rooms anda multi-purpose room were built in Nahr el-Bared camp at an approximate cost of$122,000. Milk and feeding centres in Shatila and Ein el-Hilweh camps wererenovated at a cost of approximately $19,000.

11~3. The continued shelling by artillery has prevented progress on thereconstruction of Nabatieh camp, which was destroyed by Israeli military action in1974.

144. Slow progress has been made towards the new camp planned to be established ongovernment land near Bayssarieh for some 8,500 refugees. 3/ The project ispresently estimated to cost $13.5 million, of which only $1,669,783 have so farbeen received.

145. In the West Bank there are 19 camps, of which two in the Jericho area are onlypartly inhabited; another camp in that area remains wholly depopulated as its formerresidents are in east Jordan and unable or unwilling (largely because familieswould be divided) to return to Israeli-occupied territory. Two Agency-built roomsand 16 privately-built rooms in the camps were demolished by the authorities aspunitive measures.

146. The Agency constructed two additional rooms at the Jenin camp health centre,surface drains in Nablus and Hebron camps; latrine units and incinerators inseveral camps; repaired school compound walls; and made improvements todistribution centres - at an approximate total cost of $58,000. The Agencyrepaired or reconstructed. at an approximate cost of $9,500, 15 shelters occupiedby refugees so poor that they could not afford to pay for work themselves. TheGovernment of Jordan has given the refugee representatives in Jalazone camp $82,500towards the cost of a water supply network in the camp.

147. Thirty-five self-help projects were completed at a total approximate cost of$40.500 to which the Agency contributed $15.500 and the refugee community thebalance. In addition. the refugees laid pathways and constructed surface waterdrains on a self-help basis at an approximate cost of $82,000, of which some$29.000 were contributed by the Agency. The refugees carried out several otherprojects at a total approximate cost of $34,000 without Agency support.

3/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, SupplementNo. 13- (A/34/13 and Corr.l), para. 116.

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150. During the reporting period, a further 285 families, mainly from Khan Yuniscamp, moved into houses in the nearby El Amal housing project, bringing the totalnumber of families who have moved into El Amal and Shukeiri government housingprojects to 989. This and the three immediately following paragraphs reflectstatistical data which may not tally with data published by the occupyingaQchorities; discrepancies are largely attributable to the fact that UNRWA figuresare exclusively based on actual completed moves into new housing by registeredrefugees only.

149. Regarding the housing situation reported in paragraph 120 of last year'sreport, the Israeli occupation authorities have informed the Agency that theycannot provide houses for those 94 families whose conditions have worsened sincethe first survey in 1972. However, two families of the 146 whose condition had notimproved since 1972 purchased houses during the year in government housingprojects.

151'. Construction of houses in the Sheikh Radwan project near Gaza town continuesand 18 families, mainly from Beach camp, moved into government-built houses there.An additional 22 families, mainly from Beach camp, purchased land in the sameproject, built their own houses and moved in. Two hundred and sixty-eight familieshave purchased land during the reporting period and 188 houses are underconstruction. This brings tht total number of families who have moved to housesin Sheikh Radwan to 936, of whom 759 are in government-built houses and 177 inhouses privately built on purchased land. The total number of families who havepurchased land but not moved in is 305.

148. In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupying authorities continue to insist thatrefugees demolish their shelters as a condition for the provision of new housing.Shelters vacated by refugees moving to new housing were demolished by the occupantsand none was made available to other refugee families except in two cases wheretwo families in Rafah camp were allowed to purchase houses and were instructed bythe authorities not to demolish their rooms, which were privately built. Theseshelters were then used by the authorities to rehouse two other families, one ofwhich was not a refugee family. Seven hundred and twenty··four shelter rooms(398 Agency-built rooms, 29 built with Agency assistance and 297 private rooms)were demolishea in Rafah, Khan Yunis, Nuseirat, Deir el-Balah) Beach and Jabaliacamps on instructions from the authorities. Six Agency-built rooms and twoprivately-built rooms were demolished as punitive measures:

152. An additional eight families from Rafah camp moved into houses in the Sinaihousing project near Rafah. Thirty-nine families, also from Rafah camp,purchased land and constructed houses in the "Brazilian" housing project nearRafah. A new housing project is being developed at Tel Sultan near Rafah and237 families have purchased land there. Ninety-four houses are now underconstruction, 18 houses have been constructed and 26 refugee families have movedinto them. The total nlnnber of families who have moved to government housingprojects in the Rafah area is 1,034.

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154. The Agency constructed roads in camps at an approximate cost of ffi18,500.Construction and repairs of warehouses were carried out at aD approximate cost of$25,000. The shelters of 11 families too poor to carry out the repairs themselveswere repaired by the Agency at an approximate cost of $900.

155. The laying of pathways and drains in camps on a self-help basis continued andwork was carried out of an approximate value of $48,000, of which approximately$25,000 was contributed by the Agency and the balance by the refugee community.Twenty other self-help projects were carried out of an approximate value of $23,000,of which approximately $10,000 was contributed by the Agency.

4. \{elfare

156. Voluntary agencies donated 104 tons of used clothing, including 15,464blankets, to UNRWA for distribution to refugee welfare cases. The American FriendsService Committee (USA), Mennonite Central Committee (USA), Church World Service(USA), Lutheran World Federation (Sweden), Lutheran World Relief Inc. (USA) and theSwedish battalion of the United Nations Emergency Forces, Sinai, contributed to thisprogramme.

157. The number of families registered with UNRWA as welfare cases totalled 24,298,comprising about 118,472 persons. Small cash grants were given to 117,914 persons,while assistance in other forms was given to 120.506 per-sons , 'Helfare workershelped solve individual and family problems through counselling and guidance.Prosthetic devices were issued to 891 persons, while 612 destitute aged persons and1,019 orphans were placed in instututions, mainly free of charge.

158. Activities for pre-school children are directed to the particular needs of thethree-to-six year-olds, aimed at developing their potential through play periodssupervised by trained and qualified teachers. Of the 51 centres serving 4,149children, the American Friends Service Committee financed and operated 13 centres onbehalf of the Agency in the Gaza Strip, and the Holy Land Mission financed andoperated six in the West Bank. The remaining centres were financed either by localgroups or other voluntary agencies.

159. Youth activities were carried out in co-operation with the ¥orld Alliance ofYoung Men's Christian Associations in 36 refugee camps and 6,107 young refugeesparticipated. There were 1,250 boys under 16 years of age who participated inself-help projects and recreational programmes. Twenty projects, including thecasting of concrete playgrounds and the connexion of electricity to centres andto centres and playgrounds, were completed on a self-help basis by the members ofyouth activities centres. Cash, labour and materials were contributed by membersof the centres and the refugee community. Youth services to the community includedspecial programmes for orphans, informal classes for illiterates, tutoring forpupils, assistance in cleanliness campaigns and home visits to sick and elderly campresidents.

160. Training courses in summer camping, scouting, sports and health education andyouth leaders' seminars were attended by 108 young refugees from the Gaza Strip, theWest Bank and east Jordan. In addition, 94 young men received leadership training.In 1979, summer camps were assisted or organized in east Jordan, the West Bank andthe Gaza Strip and were attended by 612 refugee boys and girls; 106 counsellorsvolunteered to work in these camps.

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161. Activities for women are ~arried on during the afternoons in 14 centresoperated by the Agency and funded mainly by the Council of Organizations for Relief,Rehabilitation and Development (CORSO) and the UNESCO Centrum Netherlands and in twocentres operated by voluntary agencies. The object of this programme is to giverefugee girls and women living in camps a chance to develop skills which will helpthem to raise their standard of living. Lectures in health education and instructionin cookery, first-aid and other household skills are given in the centres as well asclasses in a variety of arts and crafts including embroidery, crocheting, knitting,bead and straw work and painting on pottery and glass. Classes to teach a smallnumber of illiterates to read and write are also part of the programme.

162. The Agency also organizes training activities outside schools to equip withbasic skills young refugees who would not otherwise receive vocational training oreducation. In the 33 sewing centres financed and operated by the Agency, 843 of 863refugee women and girls undergoing training successfully completed the Il-monthpart-time course during the period under review. In the West Bank, UNRWA alsofinances and operates three carpentry centres, where 42 young refugees attended aone-year course. The majority of the young men who complete this course findemployment locally. Special training was provided for 184 disabled refugee childrento integrate them into the life of their community; 55 of them were trained at theCentre for the Blind in Gaza, which is operated for refugees by the Agency andfinanced by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, and the others in similarspecialized institutions in the area.

D. Relations with other organs of the United Nations system

163. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)and the World Health Organization (WHO) continued to assure professional competencein the conduct of UNRWA education and health programmes. UNESCO staff members madeavailable to the Agency without reimbursement numbered 14 at the beginning and 13at the end of the reporting period. ~mo provided five staff members on the samebasis throughout the period.

164. By the end of 1979 the UNESCO Extension Services Unit of the UNRWA/UNESCOInstitute of Education ceased to function (see para. 90 above), but the Institutecontinued to make available to Arab states in the region, on request, its experiencein in-service teacher training.

165. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UNRWA continued the mutualassistance of certain procurement services and supply of competitively pricedpharmaceuticals, on the one hand, and the transport of supplies in the area ofoperations, on the other.

166. The move of that part of the Agency's headquarters which is based in Vienna fromtemporary office accommodation to the Vienna International Centre during late Augustand early September 1979 was accomplished with the minimum interruption to theAgency's operation, thanks partly to the assistance and ready co-operation given tothe Agency by the United Nations Indu8~rial Development Organization (UNIDO). Theintegration of certain services has enabled the Agency to make some economies instaffing as well as on various items of expenditure. The Agency pays no rent for theoffice space it occupies but it shares in the operating costs of the Centre withother units housed there.

1.

Personnel matters

Staff relations

167. The Administration continued to hold periodic meetings with unionrepresentatives of the locally-recruited staff. with lengthy discussions c6ntred onthe Agency's procedure for establishing t~rms and conditions of employment. Thepresent system provides for adjustments in remuneration based on (a) appropriatecomparability with employers in the public sector. particularly in respect ofminimum wages. (b) quarterly changes in the relevant cost-of-living indices. and(c) availability of funds. Owing to lack of funds, the cost-of-living adjustmentsfor the first three quarters of 1979 were not implemented. In September/October theAgency was able to find sufficient funds to raise the remuneration levels for itslocal staff members in the area of operations to 95 per cent of parity as reflectedin increases in the cost of living in each field as compared with the base level ofrermneration established on 1 January 1975. The Agency also made exceptionalremuneration adjustments in January 1980 in the occupied territories. which continueto experience run-away inflation. Since then no further remuneration adjustmentshave been made owing to lack of funds.

168. Meetings between the Administration and union representatiiTes of the locally­recruited staff. in the presence of a representative of the Secretary-General,were held from 17 June 1979 to 28 June 1979 and again from 17 October 1979 to24 October 1979. These meetings culminated in a third Memorandum of Understandingsigned on 24 October 1979 by the Chairman of the Inter-Staff Union Conference onbehalf of all locally.-recruited staff, and signed on 9 November 1979 by theCommissioner-General on behalf of the Agency. This Memorandum of Understandingprovides for a new system of remuneration based on comprehensive surveys of totalconditions of service of comparable employees in both the pUblic and private sectorsin each of the Agency's five fields. (The present system for adjustment inremuneration will continue until the new system has been implemented.) Thesesurveys (the first of which commenced in the West Bank on 28 April) are beingconducted by the International Civil Service Commission, with participation by theAdministration and the staff. Additional surveys are scheduled for the SyrianPxab Republic and Lebanon later in the year. The Memorandum of Understandingprovides that the Commissioner-General "shall normally accept the ICSCreco~llendations and the staff shall respect the decision of the Commissioner-Genera.l.'", Under the new system establishing pay and other conditions ofservice, it is the Agency's intention to grant staff any future improvements inconditions of service to which they would be entitled based on the prevailing locallabour market. wage costs being treated as integral unit costs of each programme.If the Agency is short of funds, programmes must be curtailed, including the numberof staff members who run them. On the one hand. there may be redundancies. but, onthe other hand. the staff who remain will be fairly paid by local standards.

2. Possible termination of teachers owing to financial situation

169. In 1980 lack of funds threatens to oblige the Agency to withdraw financialsupport from its schools in Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic. At 30 June thefinancial polition of UI~RWA was such that, failing a major improvement in income,the Agency would be forced to issue notices terminating the services of about 4.900

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3. Changes in the manning table

170. The manning table of the international staff of UNRWA showed 113 posts at thebeginning and end of the period under review, but there was an increase of 150 postsin the local staff manning table, almost entirely as a result of the increase inteachers to meet the growth of the school population, bringing the total number oflocal posts to 16,729 •

F. Legal matters

1. Agency staff

171. Fourteen Agency staff members were arrested and detained in the Gaza Strip forvarious periods not exceeding three months in any case. They were all releasedwithout being charged or brought to trial.

172. In the vJest Bank seven staff members were arrested and detained:. one of themwas held in administra~ive detention for four months and the others were released,without trial, after detention for various periods not exceeding three months. Ofthe two staff members mentioned in last year's report 4/ as being in detention inthe West Bank on 30 June 1979. one was brought to trial and convicted in the presentreporting period, while the other staff member was released without trial.

173. In east Jordan one staff member was detained for a period of less than a month;he was released without being brought to trial.

174. In the Syrian Arab Republic two staff members were arrested and detained; onewas released within a period of less than a month and the other, who is stilldetained, had spent two months in detention at the end of this reporting period.

175. The Agency continues to face difficulties in obtaining adequate and timelyinformation on the reasons for the arrest and detention of members of its staff. Ithas continued to express its deep concern to the authorities respectively concernedat the prolonged detention of its staff members without charge or trial. In theabsence of sufficient information, the Agency is unable to ascertain whether thestaff member's official functions are involved, bearing in mind the rights andduties of the staff member flowing from the Charter of the United Nations, theConvention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 1946, and thepertinent Staff Regulations and Rules.

176. The Jordan Government has objected to the continuation in Agency employment inJordan of 12 locally-recruited staff members and in four of these cases has takenaction requiring the staff members to leave the country. In all these cases thepersons concerned, though locally-recruited by the Agency in east Jordan, had comethere from the Gaza Strip. some recently and some more than a dozen years ago. TheAgency has taken the matter up with the Government, drawing attention to the

!!.I Ibid•• para. 153.

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:oosition of Agency staff under the Cha.rter and General Assembly resolution 302 (rv)of 8 December 1949 a.nd also to the Commiss Loner--Genez-a.l ' s freedom to select andappoint staff. TI1ere is difficulty in securing some first-arrival privileges forexpatriate area staff assigned to Jordan.

177. last year's report mentioned 2/ the Agencyis continuing difficulties over therestricti~ns imposed by the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic on the duty travelof two senl0r members of its staff. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic hasnow dropped the restrictions on one of these staff me: -:,rs. The case of the otheris still being pursued.

178. The Israeli occupying authorities continue to impose restrictions on the dutytravel of some Aeency staff members to the West Bank and The Gaza Strip. £/ TheAgency does not accept that restrictions can properly be imposed in this way and ispursuing the matter. The United Nations Le~al Counsel has also taken the issue upwith the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations.

179. 'ale interrogation of Agency staff members in the Hest Bank and the Gaza Striphas c0ntinued. The Agency takes up with these authorities. as necessary, thecircumstances and scope of the interrogations.

2. A~ency services

180. The general situation in the \Jest Bank has been very tense. particularly inthe first six months of 1980. Measures collectively imposed by the Israeli mili~ary

authorities have affected the refugee population. The Agency's services to refugeesin areas under curfew, in particular in Hebron which ITas placed under curfew on2 May (lifted partially on 18 May and completely on 29 May), were also affected andAgency staff members living in or near such areas found it difficult to travel toand from their place of rTork. The Israeli military authorities have recently agreedto provide curfew passes for certain essential ~gency staff.

3. Agency :oremises

181. Last year 1s report 7/ referred to the closure of the Agency's Ramallah Fomen' sTraining Centre in the West Bank at the insistence of the Israeli militaryauthorities. The Israeli authorities eventually agreed to the reopening of theCentre and this was done on 1 September 1979 (see para. 13 above). However, theAgency has had to face other difficulties affecting its schools a.nd otherinstallations in the year under review. On 27 November 1979 the preparatory girls'school in the Jalazone camp Ifas entered by six armed Israeli civilians whoextensively damaged Agency property. Fortunately the staff and pupils escapedinjuries. On 11 January 1980. five armed men entered the Agency's boys' school atJalazone camp, in the early hours of the morning, extensively damaged Agency property

2.! Ibid. , para. 157.

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and severely beat the watchman. The ~gcLCY han protested against these developmentsand asked for the incidents to be investigated and for the offenders to be broughvto trial. The Israeli military authorities have said that they are investigatingthe matter and expressed their willingness to compensate the Agency for damarrecaused in the first incident. The Agency is pursuing the matter. On 9 April 1980,Israeli military authorities entered the Agency's Men's Teacher Training Centre inthe West Bank, exploded tear gas grenades in the building and severely beat some ofthe trainees. Some trainees were subsequently tried before a military court: anumber of th~ were acquitted, others were civen the option of paying fines in lieuof imprisonment and a few were sentenced to imprisonment. The Israeli authoritieshave sought to place their action in the context of their efforts to maintain lawand order. The Agency does not accept this in the circumstances of the case andhas lodged a protest with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The youth activitiescentre at the Jalazone camp (West Bank) has ?emained closed since 6 April 1980, atthe insistence of the Israeli military authorities, vTho have invoked the exigenciesof security and public order. The Agency has protested against this closure andasked that the Centre be allowed to reopen. The matter is being followeJ up withthe military authorities.

4. Refugee shelters

182. In the !'lest Bank, demolition of refugee shelters on punitive grounds took placeon two occasions. affecting four families, two Agency-rbui.Lt rooms and sixteenprivately-built rooms. There were also two occasions of demolition on punitivegrounds in the Gaza Strip, affecting four families, six Agency-built and twoprivately-built rooms .

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5. Exemption from taxation

183. Last year's report referred to the Agency's difficulties in securing examptionfrom certain taxes and duties levied by the Government of the Syrian ArabRepUblic. 8/ These difficulties continue despite the Agency's efforts to obtaina satisfactory solution.

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§j Ibid.• para. 162.

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I184. As indicated in last year's report, 9/ the Agency is actively seeking to pursue ~its claims against Governments, including-claims relating to the losses and damage rsuffered by the Agency in the June 1967 hostilities. In the year under review~ the rAgency lodged a claim with the Government of Lebanon in respect of the loss and tdamage suffered by the Agency resulting from the events which took place in that tcountry in 1975 and 1976. A claim is also being formulated against the Government OffIsrael with regard to the loss and damage suffered by the Agency consequent upon the rentry into south Lebanon by Israel's armed forces in March 1978. In view of its i

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186. The following table summarizes the Agency's actual financial operations in 1979:

,.185. The financial accounts of UNRWA are published separately, together with therelated report of the Board of Auditors. 101 This section therefore presents insummary form only the Agency's actual financial operations in 1979 and its budgetedoperations in 1980.

189. As the ex$7.9 million i.approximately$40 million) twill be able t(often late in .Agency could cccontributions j

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190. The cashcover re,!uiremunusually earlsuspension ofposition was f($24.2 million$0.7 million 1

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Working capital at 31 December 1979 ~

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Income received in 1979:

Expenditure in 1979:

~ For various reasons the European Economic Community was unable to confirmits pledges of cash and commodities for the Agency's supplementary feeding programmeand of sugar for the basic rations programme for 1979 before the accounts for 1979were closed. These pledges, amounting in all to $6,044,000, have since been made.Although for purely ~ccounting and audit pw:poses these late contributions fer 1979must be included in the 1980 accounts, they have exceptionally been included in the1979 figures shown here to avoid distortion in the comparison of 1979 and 1980figures.

bl "Other costs H mainly comprise costs due to the CJl1flict in Lebanon, the costof increasing the provision for local staff separation costs as a result of theincorporation of part of their cost-of-living a'LLovances l.r.~to salaries and of theintroduction of retirement and early voluntary retir0ment benefits fo~ local staffmembers and certain other costs not readily allocable to p~ogrammes.

101 illfR'V1A accounts for 1979 together with the corresponding report of the Boardof Auditcrs have been submitted to the Generai Assembly, at its thirty-fifthsession (see Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fifth SessionSupplement No. 5C (A/35/5/Add. 3».

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187. The foregoing summary distinguishes between expenditure on "r-ecur-r-entoperations;! (salaries~ supplies~ rents, subsidies and other costs incurred regularly)and expenditure on "non-c-ecurr-errt oper-atri.ona'' (such as construction of schoolrooms ~

replacement of worn-out equipment and other essentially non-repetitive costs). Thedistinction is significant because (a) the cost of recurrent operations is a measureof the minimum cost of maintaining the three programmes of education~ health andrelief services, which the Agency regards itself as obliged to maintain under itsmandate to the extent that its financial resources permit (these progran~es are nota series of finite projects, but indefinitely continuing basic services for which adegree of financial stability is required), and (b) non-recurrent operations aresometimes financed by special contributions which cannot be used for recurrentoperations.

188. The Agency completed the year 1979 with a deficit of $6.7 million despitehaving temporarily reduced c'2rtain services, postponed a number of highly desirableconstruction projects and only partially adjusted local staff remuneration forincreases in the cost of living (these three groups of budgetary reductions togethertotalling some $26 million) because of its inadequate financial resources. As aconsequence, the Agency's working capital (that is~ excess of assets overliabilities) was reduced to only $7.9 million at year-end.

189. As the experience of recent years has clparly sho1vn~ workine capital of only$7.9 million is far from adequate. The Agency should have working capital equal toapproximately the cost of three months' budgeted cash operations (currently some$40 million) to permit proper stockpiling of supplies and to ensure that the Agencywill be able to operate during the early months of the year when contributions areoften late in arriving. This level of working capital would also ensure that theAgency could continue operatio~s normally during the last quarter of a year even ifcontributions for the year failed to match budgeted expenditures. This would largelyobviate the possibility of the Agency's having to suspend operations abruptly andthus having to increase its liability for termination indemnities to local staffmembers by some ~n5 million. (An orderly liquidation of the Agency would, it isbelieved, permit the Agency to find continued employment with other organizationsfor nearly half of those staff members not entitled to retirement or early voluntaryretirement benefits. Such staff members would therefore not qualify for terminationindemnities~ and the Agency;s provision for staff separation benefits reflects thisassumption. An unplanned, forced liquidation would probably make this impossible,so that virtually all staff members not entitled to retirement or early voluntaryretirement benefits would qualify for termination indemnities~ nearly doubling theAgency1s presently recognized liability.)

190. The cash balance of some $23.6 million at the end of 1978 was sufficient tocover requirements for just over the first two months of 1979, and only theunusually early receipt of certain large contributions enabled the Agency to avoidsuspension of operations early in 1979. For the remainder of the ye~r, the cashposition was fairly good and~ at the close of the year, was even slightl~ improved($24.2 million) over that at the close of 1978, although total assets vere$0.7 million less. Cash in hand at 31 December 1979 was again inadequate to cover

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requirements for more than the first two months of 1980, but fortunately certainlarge contributions were again exceptionally received in those months.

191 •.\t the end of 1979, unpaid pledges for 1979 or previous years totalled$19.3 million (note: this figure includes $6.04 million from the European EconomicCommunity; see also foot-note a/ to table in para. 186), compared with $15.1 millionunpaid at the end of 1978. Of-the pledges unpaid at the end of 1979, $14.0 millionwere payable in cash and $5.1 million in supplies of various kinds. Inventories ofsupplies and advances to suppliers (the Agency's supply i1pi pel i ne ll) were at$12.9 million, somewhat higher than at the close of 1978 (~12.1 million). On theother hand, accounts payable were substantially less at the end of 1979($5.6 million) than at the end of 1978 ($9.6 million). The value of foodcommodities borrowed from local governments because of delays in receipt ofcontributions, in order to avoid disruption of UNRWA's raticn programme, was ratherhigher ($2.2 million) at the end of 1979 than at the end of 1978 ($1.4 million).

192. The Agency's provision for local staff separation costs had to be substantiallyincreased in 1979, from $17.3 million to $31.2 million. The principal cause was theestablishment and extension of a system of retirement and early voluntary retirementbenefits for the Agency's local staff members to supplement the Agency's providentfund (it has no pension fund for its local staff members). In addition, asubstantial part of the cost-of-living allowance was incorporated into salaries, andthis considerably increased the Ageney's probable liability for terminationindemnities for local staff members not entitled to retirement or early voluntaryretirement benefits.

193. Unliquidated budget commitments carried forward from 1979 (or prior years) to1980 totalled $9.4 million compared with only $7.2 million at the close of 1978.During 1979, savings on the liquidation of budget commitments and liabilities fromprior years totalled approximately $0.4 million, which was credited to workingcapital. In 1980 it has already been decided to cancel some $0.7 million of budgetcommitments from years prior to 1980, which will improve the working capital positionin that amount.

194. Prior to the beginning of 1980, the Agency had projected its deficit for theyear at $56.8 million. Increases in estimated income only partly offset by budgetincreases, had somewhat reduced the deficit to an estimated $46.9 million by the endof the reporting period. The following table summarizes the Agency's budgetedfinancial operations for 1980 as at 30 June 1980:

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111,93332,12357,5999,634

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152,5255,7281,7001,9633,000

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7,1931,0441,0789,634

18,949

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192,340

104,74031,07956,521

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Contributions by GovernmentsContributions by United Nations agenciesContributions from non-governmental sourcesContributions by OPEC FundMiscellaneous incomeExchange adjustments

Total estimated income

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Total estimated expenditure

EstimateQ income in 1980:

Estimated surplus (deficit) ofincome over expenditure in 1980

Budgeted expenditure in 1980:

195. In 1980 budgeted expenditure on recurrent operations is some $53.1 million inexcess of actual expenditure in 1979. About one third of this figure representsadjustment of local staff remuneration to mateh increases in the cost of living in1979. This has again been budgeted in 1980 together with provision for normaloperational increases, such as the annual increase in the Agency's schoolpopulation. The remainder of the increase over 1979 represents principallyprovision for annual staff salary increments, improvements in staff remunerationto k~ep reasonable pace with the further rise in the cost of living expected in1980 and the continuing increase in cost of non-staff items.

196. Non-recurrent expenditure bUdgeted for 1980 is some $0.7 million less thanactual expenditure in 1979. The net increase in total budgeted expenditure in 1980over total actual expenditure in 1979 is therefore $52.4 million, while thepresently estimated increase in income up to 30 June 1980 is $18.3 million.Consequently the deficit for 1980 is estimated at $46.9 million, an increase of$34.6 million over t!le actual o.eficit of 1979.

197. The agency clearly does not have sufficient working capital to cover itspresently estimated deficit for 1980, even if one assumes that all non-cash assets

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PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1981 AND BUDGET FOR 1980

A. Introduction

198. This chapter of the report presents both the proposed budget for 1981 and thebudget for 1980. The original budget estimates for 1980 were submitted in lastyear's report. 11/

199. The budget proposed for 1981 is $230,925,000, compared with a budget of$211,289,000 for 1980. The budget for 1980 shows a net increase of $26,100,000over the original estimates.

200. The major causes of the increase are the following: higher ration commodityprices ($12.7 million net); further provisions in the staff costs for cost-of­living increases ($3.8 million); a related increase in the provision for staffseparation costs ($4.0 million); an adjustment for possible under-provision fortermination indemnities ($3.0 million); and provision for expansion and upgradingof vocational training facilities ($2.0 million, funded by contributions fromOPEC). Other miscellaneous increases and decreases account for the remaining net$0.6 million increase.

201. In the proposed budget for 1981, recurrent costs 12/ are estimated to be$20'.7 million over the budget for recurrent costs in 1980, as explained inparagraph 202 below. There is, however, a decrease of $1.1 million in non-recurrentcosts (see para. 203 below), resulting in a net increase of $19.6 million in totalcosts over the budget for 1980.

202. The budget proposed for recurrent costs in 1981 'is $213,035,000 compared with$192,340,000 for 1980, an increase of approximately $20.7 million. This increaseprovides principally for the following: normal programme increases ($1.9 million,mainly for education services as a resuJ~ of the natural growth in schoolpopulation); normal salary increments ($2.9 million); higher staff costs to copewith continued inflation ($24.3 million); staff cost increases due to an adverse

11/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session,Suppl~ent No. 13 (A/34/13), chap. 11, sect. B.

12/ "Recurrent costs" include salaries, supplies, rents, subsidies and othercosts'"incurred on a regularly recurring basis. "Non-recurrent costs" includeconstruction and e~uipment and other items not regularly incurred, and, ifnecessary, they can be deferred for a certain time without giving rise to immediatedifficulty in most cases. They are also to a certain extent a function of specialcontributions. Recurrent costs, on the other hand, are a measure of the Agency'sbasic programmes which it cannot easily reduce, even in the short run, withoutcausing hardship for the refugees and risking local disturbances.

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change in exchange rates against the Jordan dinar ($1.3 million); services,principally education and special hardship assistance ($2.7 million); adjustmentsin basic commodity prices ($2.2 million); continued inflation in non-staff costs($1.5 million); and other miscellaneous cost increases ($0.2 million). Againstthese is a reduction in the basic ration ($16.3 million), due to a change in policyforced on the Agency by its continuingly poor financial position.

203. The budget proposed for non-recurrent costs in 1981 is $17,890,000, comparedwith a provision of $18,949,000 in the budget for 1980, a decrease of approximately$1.1 million. The estimate for 1981 includes $1.2 million for the replacement ofunserviceable vehicles and equipment; $0.8 million for classrooms for additionalpupils; $6.6 million for urgently needed capital additions or improvements(particularly in education, shelter, medical, and environmental sanitationfacilities); a $6.1 million adjustment in the provision for local staff separationcosts necessitated by increases in remuneration; a $3.0 million adjustment forpossible under-provision for termination indemnities in the event of closure of theAgency; and $0.2 million for the eventual repatriation of area staff transferredfrom Beirut to Vienna and Amman.

204. The provision for increased staff costs calls for a word of explanation. Thebulk of the Agency's assistance to the refugees takes the form of personal services,particularly those provided by teachers and health personnel. Staff coststherefore constitute by far the principal item of expenditure in the Agency'sbudget (some 66 per cent in 1980 and 69 per cent in 1981). Consequently, theeffects of heavy inflation on staff costs, and hence on the total budget, arerelatively much greater than the increases in non-staff costs.

205. Apart from increases in unit staff costs due largely to inflation, the Agencyforesees a rise in the number of staff members, mainly to provide the additionalteachers and supervisors required by the increased enrolment in Agency schools(about 7,100 more pupils than in 1980).

206. In 1981 education services will account for approximately 60 per cent of thetotal budget, compared with 16 per cent for health services, 20 per cent for reliefservices and 4 per cent for other costs. (Comparable figures for the 1980 budgetare 53 per cent for education services, 15 per cent for health services, 27 per centfor relief services and 5 per cent for other costs.)

207. In health services, the proposed budget includes provision for the basic needsof a slightly larger population in 1981. Staff and other costs are also expectedto be greater than in 1980, essentially due to inflation as there will be only aminimal increase in the number of staff members required. Provision is also madefor essential replacement of buildings and equipment in medical and camp sanitationinstallations, and limited but highly desirable improvements in facilities. Campsanitation improvement schemes include self-help projects, in which the refugeebeneficiaries participate substantially alongside the Agency.

208. In relief se.wvices, provision has been made for the continuation of servicesin 1981 at the same level as in 1980. Recurrent costs are expected to be some$10.2 million less than in the previous year, mainly attributable to a change inAgency pOlicy and the treatment of the flour ration in the proposed 1981 budget.Cost-of-living allowances and related remuneration of staff and improvements in thespecial hardship assistance programme will increase in 1981 by $3.3 million. Theestimates for non-recurrent costs provide mainly for improvements in shelterfacilities.

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211. The following tables present in summary the budget estimates for 1981, togetherwith comparative data for the budget for 1980; table A shows the estimates forrecurrent costs, table B the estimates for non-recurrent costs and table C theestimates for total costs. The estimates for 1981 are described briefly in theparagraphs following the tables.

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210. Attention must be drawn to a possible material under-provision in the budget.The Agency assumes that, in the event of an orderly turnover of its responsibilitiesto governments or other organizations, nearly half of its local staff of some16,800 will be offered suitable continued employment. In this case, in accordancewith the Agency's staff rules, only the remaining 50 per cent or so would beentitled to receive a termination indemnity for loss of employment, and provisionhas been made in the Asency's accrued liabilities for only this number. However,in the event of an abrupt suspension of the Agency's operations, for lack of incomeor any other cause, all local staff would probably become entitled to receive atermination indemnity, thereby increasing costs by over $15 nillion for which thereis as yet no provision. Because the possibility of this happening appears to theAgency to have increased, the estimates for the 1980 budget and for the proposed1981 budget both include $3 million under Ilother costs", in implementation of theAgency's plan to establish this additional provision in five annual instalments.

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Recurrent costs

(In thousands of United states dollars)

~. Education services

C-ener:ll adue~ticn

Vocational and professional training

Share of common costs from part IV

Total, Part I

Part II. Health services

Medical services

Supplementary feeding

Environmental sanitation

Share of common costs from part IV

Total, Part II

Part Ill. Relief services

Basic rations

Shelter

Special hardship assistance

Share ot canmon costs from part IV

Total, Part III

Part IV. Common costs

Supply and transport services

Other internal services

General administration

Total, Part IV

Costs allocated to programmes

Part V. other costs

Adjustment in provision for local staff separationcosts necessitated by increased remuneration

Adjustment for possible under-provision for terminationindemnities for local staff in event of closure ot the Agency

Adjustment for possible under-provision for repatriationof local staff

Emergency relief programme, south Lebanon

Other local disturbances costs

Total. Part V

1981l'~posed 1980budget budget

104 833 83 16613 092 10 85312 617 10 721

130 542 104 740

15 000 12 7198 155 7 486

. 5 694 4 6557 303 6 219

36_152 31 079

31 489 45 009623 591

3 509 1 91710 720 9 004

46 341 56 521

10 732 907314 346 12 064

5 562 4 807

30 640 25 944(30 640) (25 944)

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Table B

1.981proposed 1980budget budget

Part I. Education services

General 2ducatic~ 6 156 4 526Vocational and professional training 461 2 435Share of common costs from part IV 244 232

Total, Part I 6 861 7 193

Part II. Health services

Medical services 181 343Supplementary feeding 50 37Environmental sanitation 534 489Share of common costs from part IV 176 175

Total, Part II 941 1 044

Part III. Relief services

Basic rations 7 49Shelter 406 605Special hardship assistance 23 17Share of common costs from part IV 392 407

Total, Part HI 828 1 07~

Part IV. Common costs

Supply and transport services 645 694Other internal services 159 85General administration 8 35

Total, Part IV 812 814Costs allocated to programmes (812) (814)

~. Other costs

Non-recurrent costs

(In thousands of United States dollars)

Adjustment in provision for local staff separationcosts necessitated by increased remuneration

Adjustment for possible under-provision for terminationindemnities for local staff in event of closure of the, Agency

Adjustment for possible under-provision for repatriationof local staff

Emergency relief programme. south Lebanon

Other local disturbances costs

Total. Part V

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6 367

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Part I. Education services

General education 110 989 87 692Vocational and professional training 13 553 13 288Share of common costs from part IV 12 861 10 953

Total, Part I 137 403 111 933

Part H. Health services

Medical services 15 181 13 062Supplementary feeding 8 205 7 523Environmental sanitation 6 228 5 144Share of common costs from part IV 7 479 6 394

Total, Part II '3T 093 32 123

Part III. Relief services

Basic rations 31 496 45 058Shelter 1 D29 1 196Special hardship assistance 3 532 1 934Share of' common costs from part IV 11 112 9411

Total, Part IH 47 169 57 599

Part IV. Common costs

Supply and transport services 11 377 9 767Other internal services 14 505 12 149General administration 5 570 4 842

Total, Part IV 31 452 26 758Costs allocated to programmes (31 452) (26 758)

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Total costs

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Adjustment for possible under-provision for repatriationof local staff

Emergency relief programme, south Lebanon

other local disturbances costs

Total, Part V

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200

9 260

230 <925

6 367

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200

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211 289

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1981 proposed budget 110,989,000 104,833,000 6,156,000

1980 budget 87.692,000 83.166,000 4,526,000

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212. For a description of the Agency's general education programme see paragraphs 68to 79 abov~ and tables 9 to 12 of annex I. Youth activities co~ducted outsidethe UNRWA schools are also included under this heading (para. 159). These andsimilar minor activities are considered part of the Agency's general educationprogramme, but they are wholly or largely supported by special contributionsreceived for the purpose. The Agency has also bUdgeted in 1981 for a programme ofpre-school activities in Gaza. for which it will assume responsibility at a cost of$400,000 in 1981, to be entirely met by a special contribution. r.213. Of the increase of $21,667,000 in the proposed 1981 budget for recurrent costs, l$1,600,000 reflect the continuing growth in the school population, estimated at an ':average of 7 ,100 addi'~ional pupils in the financial year 1981. other components of ,jthe increase in recurrent costs include the following: an increase incost-of-1iving remuneration of staff ($15,944,000); normal salary increments($1,664,000); staff cost increases due to adverse changes in exchange rates($993,000); essential improvements in services provided by the Agency ($706,000);the assumption by the Agency of a programme of pre-schoo1 training activities inGaza ($400,000 - see para. 212 above); and inflation in non-staff costs ($360,000).

Total Recurrent Non-recurrent

1981 proposed budget 13,553,000

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13,092,000 461,000

2,435,00010,853,000

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prov~s~on has been made for any further construction of training facilities, buta larger number of trainees will be accommodated in existing facilities than inthe 1979/80 academic year, made possible by a special contribution pledged forthe years 1979-1982.

216. Also included is the cost of scholarships awarded at universities in or nearthe Agency's area of operations (described in paras. 93 and 94 and in table 14 ofannex I), the anount of the scholarship being related to the candidate's economiccircumstances. In 1981, some $50,000 of the total scholarship budget of $250,000is expected to be funded by a special contribution.

217. This heading also includes certain minor categories such as adult crafttraining (partly funded by special contributions), the training of physicallyhandicapped children and some vocational training outside UNRWA centres.

218. The increase of $2,239,000 in the budget for recurrent costs is to providefor the following: additional trainees in the 1980/81 and 1981/82 academic years($300,000); essential improvements in certain training courses ($67,000);increase in cost-of-living remuneration fer staff ($1,429,000); normal salaryincrements for staff ($200,000); an increase in staff costs due to adversechanges in exchange rates ($99,000); and inflation in non-staff costs ($141~,000).

219. The budget of $461,000 for non-recurrent costs provides only for thereplacement of unserviceable essential equipment ($220,000) and vehicles ($86,000),and for essential capital improvements ($155,000).

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15,181,000 15,000,000 181,000

221. The increase of $2,281,000 in the 1981 budget for recurrent costs is toprevide for the following: increased cost-of-living remuneration for staff($1,667,000); normal salary increments ($182,000); an increase in staff costsdue to adverse changes in exchange rates ($84,000); increases in hospitalsubsidies ($300,000); normal programme increases ($28,000); and inflation in 'othermiscellaneous non-staff costs ($20,000).

220. The UNRWA programme of preventive and curative medical services is describedin paragraphs 96 to 113 above and in tables 5 to 7 of annex I. The objectivehas always been that the Agency's health services should not fall below the levelof those provided by the Governments of the host countries for their own citizens.With the rapid increase in hospital costs and in the cost of supplies, utilitiesand staff required for the Agency's own health centres, the Agency continues tofind it extremely difficult to achieve this objective.

Medical services

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1980 budget

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Recurrent

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following; essential improvements and additions to existing premises andequipment ($55,000); replacement of unserviceable ambulances and other equipment($47,000); in-service staff training ($70,000); and Agency participation inself-help projects ($9,000).

Supplementary feeding

Total Recurrent Non-recurrent

(in United States dollars)

1981 proposed budget 8,205,000 8,155,000 50,000

1980 budget 7,523,000 7,486,000 37,000

223. This programme is described in paragraphs 120 to 124 above and in table 8of annex I. In this activity as with basic rations (pa~as. 133 to 137 above),the costs of transport and warehousing within the UNRWA area of operations arecharged to "supply and transport services".

224. The increase of $669,000 in the proposed budget for 1981 recurrent costs ismainly attributable to provision for the following: increase in cost-of-livingremuneratioI. of staff ($505,000); normal salary increments ($55,000); an increasein staff costs due to adverse changes in exchange rates ($29,000); and inflationin non-staff costs ($80,000). The Agency has for several years received a specialcontribution for the supplementary feeding programme, but since 1979 thecontribution has fallen short of the full cost.

225. The proposed 1981 budget of $50,000 for non-recurrent co~ts consists ofprovision for the following: essential improvements to existing facilities($21,000); the replacement of unserviceable essential furniture and equipment($20,000); and the Agency's contribution towards self-help projects ($9,000).

Environmental sani~ation

(in United States dollars)

5,694,000 534,0001981 proposed budget

1980 budget

Total

6,228,000

5,144,000

Recurrent

4,655,000

Non-recurrent

489,000

":I226. The programmes under this heading are described in paragraphs 114 to 119above. The 1981 estimate provides only for the minimum requirements considerednecessary to maintain essential community sanitation and water supply services atreasonably safe levels in camps inhabited by refugees. Once again, the Agency isunable to raise existing standards of sanitation to more desirable levels because of Jrising costs over which it has no control.

227. The increase of $1,039,000 in recurrent costs proposed for 1981 is to providefor the following: increased cost-of-living remunpration for staff ($860,000);increase in staff costs due to adverse changes in exchange rates ($49,000); annualsalary increments ($88,000); and inflation in non-staff costs ($42,000).

228. The proposed 1981 budget of $534,000 for non-recurrent costs provides for

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Total Recurrent Non-recurrent

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1981 proposed budget

1980 budget

14,505,000

12,149,000

14,346,000

12,064,000

159,000

85,000

240. The budget under this heading provides for the following costs: investigationand determination of eligibility of refugees for Agency assistance; personnel andadministrative services; translation, legal, financial and data processingservices; internal and external audit services; technical (architectural andengineering) services; and protective services.

241. The increase of $2,282,000 in recurrent costs for 1981 is for the follcwing:increase in cost- If-living remuneration for staff ($1,756,000); normal salaryincrements for staff ($318,000); an increase in staff costs due to adverse changesin exchange rates ($46,000); necessary increases in the Agency's architecturalstaff ($72,000); inflation in non-staff costs ($50,000); and other unavoidablecost increases ($40,000).

242. The provision of $159,000 for non-recurrent costs in 1981 is for thereplacement of unserviceable essential equipment ($139,000) and other minorimprovements ($20,000).

General administration

Total Recurrent Non-recurrentr (in United States dollars)r

i1981 proposed budget 5,570,000 5,562,000 8,000r

1980 budget 4,842,000 4,807,000 35,000

243. This budget heading includes general administration services at Agencyheadquarters and the five field offices (including subordinate area and campservices offices), the liaison offices in New York and Cairo, and publicinformation services.

244. The increase of $755,000 in the recurrent costs budget proposed for 1981 isto provide for: increased cost-of-living remuneration for staff ($527,000);normal salary increments ($181,000); an increase in staff costs due to adversechanges in exchange rates ($23,000); inflation in non-staff costs ($22,000); andminor improvements in 'cranslation services ($2,000).

245. The provision of $8,000 for non-recurrent costs in 1981 is for the replacementof unserviceable office equipment ($6,000) and minor improvements ($2,000).

Allocation of common costs

246. The summary tables following paragraph 211 above reflect the allocation ofcommon costs tCI the three main categories of Agency services - education, healthand relief. Any such allocation is to some extent a matter of judgement, but the

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248.the

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C. Financing the budget - 1980 and 1981

"\,~l:!-j'I

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:)

211,289

152,525

5,728

1,700

1,963

3,000

(500)

164,416

(46,873)

230,925

160,536

150,026

6,175

1,500

335

2,500

(In thousands of United States dollars)

5. other costs

Total Recurrent Non-recurrent

$ $ $

1981 proposed budget 9,260,000 9,260,000

1980 budget 9,634,000 9,634,000

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Total estimated income

• - j~. , ••..~

Estimated surplus (deficit)

Estimated expenditure per budget:

percentages applied have been evolved and retested periodically on the basis of adetailed study of all Agency operations in all offices and extracted as weightedaverages.

Estimated income available from:

Contributions by Governments

Contributions by United Nations agencies

Contributions from non-governmental sources

Ccntributions by OPEC Fund

Miscellaneous income

Exchange adjustments

248. The chronic problems facing the Agency in financing the budget for 1980 andthe proposed budget for 1981 will be appreciated from the summary below:

247. The following estimate of $9,260,000 for 1981 is to cover the following:adjustment in the provision for local staff separation costs necessitated byincreased remuneration due to inflation ($6,060,000, comprising increased cost-of­living allowances ($3,286,000), cost of incorporation of a part of cost-of-livingallowances into salaries ($2,267,000), and cost of application of cost-of-livingallowances to salary increments ($507,000)); adjustment for possible under­provision for termination indemnities for local staff in the event of closure ofthe Agency ($3,000,000); and adjustment for possible under-provision for eventualrepatriation of local staff transferred to Vienna and Amman from Beirut ($200,000).

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249. At the time this budget was prepared, pledges for 1981 had not yet been madeby Governments and other contributors. The estimate of income for 198~. is littlemore than an extrapolation of contributions for 1980, excluding special

, contributions limited expressly or by implication to that year. It should benoted, however, that even if income in 1981 were estimated at the same level aspresently e~timated for 1980. the projected deficit would still be of the order of$66.5 million.

D. Provision for separation costs

250. During 1979 the Agency increased its provision for contingent liabilities forArea staff separations by $13 million to a total of $31,173,176. The UnitedNations Board of Auditors suggested that this provisicn was excessive. Consideringthe fact that the Agency is by definition a temporary one, the Agency believes thatit is only prudent for it to provide fully for termination entitlements.

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1.

2.

3.

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5.

6.

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8.

9.

10

11

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13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

Annex I

Tables

1. Total registered population according to category of registration

2. Recapitulation of changes in families registered for rations

3. Recapitulation of changes in composition of total registered refugeepopulation

4. Distribution by place of registration of total registered refugee populationand of camp population

5. Number of patient-visits to UNRWA clinics and UNRWA-subsidized clinics

6. Number of hospital beds available to UNRWA patients

7. Maternal and child health

8. Supplementary feeding programme

9. Number of elementary and preparatory pupils in UNRWA schools

10. Number of refugee pupils attending government and private schools

11. Number of pupils in UNRWA schools

12. Distribution of refugee pupils receiving education

13. Number of training places in UNRWA training centres

14. University scholarship holders by course and country of study

15. Summary of statement of income, expenditure and working capital

16. Detailed stat~ent of income to UNRWA (1 May 1950-31 December 1980)

17. Statement of income from non-governmental sources for the year ended31 December 1979.

18. Direct assistance to Palestine refugees

19. Voluntary agencies which have operational programmes for direct assistanceto UNRWA-registered refugees

20. UNRWA manning table posts as at 30 June 1979 and 30 June 1980

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3476

545

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215

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639

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273

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577

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1962

862

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902

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369

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195

1042

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722

649

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465

319

6585

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251

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228

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539

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312

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725

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824

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616

660

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613

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326

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7373

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234

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a/ These statistics are based on the Agency's registration records, which donot necessarily reflect the actual refugee population owing to factors such asunreported deaths and births, false and duplicate rep,istrations and unreportedabsences from the area of UNRlfA operations. The Agency presumes that the refugeepopulation present in the area of UNRWA operations is less than the registeredpopulation.

b/ The "R" category (columns 1 to 4) comprises registered families with someor all members eligible for all Agency assistance, including basic rations.

c/ The "s" catee.;ory (column 5) comprises refueees whose income is abovethat of "R" category refugees but below that of "N" category refugees, and who areeligible for general. education, health services and some other UNTIHA assistance,but not for basic rations. In Gaza, however, there is no "B" category and "Nilcategory refugees enjoy some of the services p.;iven to "s" category.

d/ "N" category (column 6) comprises the following, subject to what is saidabout-Gaza refue;ees in foot-note s..! above and foot-note :2:./ to table 9:

(L) Refugees who are members of families whose absence from the a.rea or thelevel of whose reported income disqualifies all family members frombasic rations, general education and health services; or

(ii) Refugees who have themselves received or whose families have receivedassistance enabling them to become self-supporting.

However, there are refur;ees in "Nil category who continue to receive generaleducation and health services for various reasons, e.F,. as UNRWA employees or toalleviate conditions of hardship •

.e/ Before 1954, half rations were issued to bedouins and infants, as well asto frontier villa~ers in Jordan. Since then, bedouins have been regarded aseli~ible to receive full rations and infants have also been eligible for fullrations after their first anniversary if the ration ceiling permits. Half rationsare issued only to frontier villagers on the West Bank (9,121). Frontiervillagers displaced to east Jordan as a result of the hostilities of June 1967(3,323) are issued with full rations under the normal programme and are thereforeincluded in the figure of full ration recipients (column 1). Also included incolumn 1 are Gaza Poor (837) and Jerusalem Poor (1,322).

f/ This grand total included refugees receiving relief in Israel who werethe responsibility of urrnlTA through 30 June 1952.

~/ The total 603,650 comprises:

(i) 15,853 infants under the age of one year who are eligible for servicesbut not for rations;

(ii) 550,468 children registered for services (CRS) aged one year and over(some of whom are now adults) who are not receiving rations because ofration ceilings; and

(iii) 37,329 displaced children registered for services (CRS) who receiverations donated by the Government of Jordan on an emergency andtemporary basis.

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al This table recapitulates changes over 30 years affectin~ the n~ber ofration recipients, their babies and children re~istered for services. Births,new registrations, deaths, false re~istrations and duplications result in additionsto or deletions from the registration records. Self-support and absence reflecttrFlnsfers to or from the louer catee;ories of rep;istration (shown in table 1,columns 4, 5 and 6).

Transfers ,'lithin or bet.ve en area.s, as well R,S the issue of rations (whenavailable) to children registered for services, are not shown in this table.

~I Includes chan~es effected during the 1950-1951 census operations.

cl Self-support: included under this headin~ are those persons who, becauseof income derived from employment or other sources, have become self-supportingand those who have, throup,h vocational or university training or other LffiffiWAprogrammes, received assistance to enable them to become self-supportine;.

dl Miscellaneous changes inclUde, up to June 1953, a number of additions toor deletions from the registration recorc1s, as well as certain changes incategory of registration. The deletion of refugees in Israel from the A~encyts

records (40,930 persons over the period from July 1950 to June 1953) is includedunder this headine;.

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al This table recapitulates changes affectin~ the total number of registeredpopulation (table 1, column 7) over 30 years.

Transfers within or between areas are not sho1vo herein.

In comparing the fir,ures in this table with those in table 2, it should beborne in mind that deletions from the ration rolls do not necessarily entaildeletions from the total recistered population. Persons ceasin~ to draw rationsbecause of absence or self-support continue to be registered within the totalpopulation. On the other hand, some deaths and fals~ and duplicate rer,istrationsare reported among persons registered but not receiving rations, and thisaccounts for the minor differences under those headinp,s in the two tables. Inthe early years of the Agency's history, the distinction between ration recipientsand registered population was incompletely recorded.

bl Nature of changes reported under miscellaneous was not specified duringthe census operation. Figures reflect those amendments whi ch resulted in additionor deletion in the total re~istered population, removal of refugees in Israel fromUNRHA re~istration records and correction of deletions previously made by errorwhich were included in the figures of new registration in the reports of previousyears.

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Number of cots

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Maternal and child health

(1 July 1979-30 June 1980)

Number of child health clinics 14

JordanB. Child health care (east)

Infants 0-1 year: registered a/ 11 233: attended W- 8 613

Children 1-2 years: registered a/ 11 228: attended W- 9 919

Children 2-3 years: registered a/ 9 127: attended W- 7 365

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Number of ante-natal clinics

Pregnant Wi'men newly registered

Average mCJlthly attendance

Home visits

Home visits

Routine immunizations

c. School health services

Number ot health teams

School entrants examined

other pupils examined

Teachers/attendants.examined

School inspections

Routine immunizations

Jordan(east)

8 140

2 702

12 126

22 986

82 346

Jordan(east)

3

16 985

28 251

111

106

16632

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24

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1 589

55

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23

4 8084 462

5 0304 308

4 5943911

5 407

32 219

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1

4 564

9 542

549

59919 664

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9

12 729

4 135266

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9

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10 8719 252

10 1558 456

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84 699

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1

8 582

14 312

430

458

32 976

Lebanon

21

2 217

498

148

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18

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34312 155

3 3001 190

4 805

22 340

Lebanon

1

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1 140

280

48

7 426

SyrianArab

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19

2 397

694

72

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19

3 2442 849

3 7013 407

34393 009

4 346'

43728

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1

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14 765

923

167

19 522

Total

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30 654

9 618

12 667

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34 26129 041

30 61423 931

45 980

272 332

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2 293

1 378

96 220

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Number of feed

Average dailybeneficiarie(0-15 years)

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Average morrbh.l:of beneficia'

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W Attendance figures represent average monthly (0-1 category), bimonthly (1-2 category)and quarterly (2-3 category) numbers, respectively.

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Supplementary feeding programme

(1 July 1979-30 June 1980)

a/ Includes 1,347 displaced persons in emergency camps included at the requestof the Government of Jordan and on reimbursible basis.

b/ Includes 1,145 displaced persons in emergency camps~ included at the requestof the Government of Jordan and on reimbursible basis.

Total

6 349

18 556

718

55 264

Total

37

383

1 514

7 526

269

923

81

3 199

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Gaza Lebanon Republic

3 400

8 540

269

SyrianArab

Gaza Lebanon Republic

20 726

WestBank

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4 951

1 401896

2 628

40

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Jordan(east)

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(ii) Nursing mothers

(Hi) TB out-patients

Average monthly numberof beneficiaries:

c. Extra dry rations

Average number ofbeneficiaries inmilk and MCH centres

B. Milk programme

SyrianJordan West Arab

A. H leal programme (east) Bank Gaze. Lebanon Republic Total

Number of feeding centres 18 25 23 12 13 91 i

Average daily number of 7 891 ~ 9 371 11 158 3 491 6 235 38 146beneficiaries(0-15 years)

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a/ Including non--eligible chil dren attending UNHHA schools, who now number41,460 of whom 10,608 arE:: registered children in the Gaza Strip, where all refugeechildren have always been regarded in practice as eligible for education services.Non-eligible may mean either non-eligible refugee children or non-refugee children.It is relevant that in Jordan non-refugee children in Agency schools are offsetagainst refugee pupils attending government schools, free of charge, includingsecondary schools~ that in the Syrian Arab Republic some refugee pupils attendgovernment elementary and preparatory schools and those who proceed to secondary

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,(Foot-notes to table 16)

al The figures in this table show for each year government and United Nationsagency contributions applicable to that year regardle~s of when they were receivedexcept that certain minor contributions pledged subsequent to the years for whichthey were intended have been included in the year of actual pledging.

£! Some figures are estimated.

£! Now part of the United Arab Emirates.

~I At donor's valuation.

~ Based on donor's valuation in 1979 pending receipt of current valuation.

fl Received up to 24 October 1971. Elf resolution 2758 (XXVI) of25 October 1971, the General Assembly, inter alia, decided "to restore all itsrights to the People's Republic of Chin~ and to recoenize the representatives ofits Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations,and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chianf, Kai-Shek from the place whichthey unla'Tfully occupy at the United rhtions "..llcL in?ll the or""::..ni:Gc,tions relc..tedto it". "

gl Includes $6,044,034 pledged for 1979 not reflected in the Agency'saudited accounts for that year due to late notification.

hi Includes $6 million pledged for 1976 not reflected in the Agency'saudited accounts for that year due to late notification.

il Special contributions to the Government of Jordan (in 1971) and the SyrianArab Republic (in 1977) for the benefit of the Palestine refugees for which DrTRWAacted as executing agent. As these contributions were used for purposes budgetedfor by UNRWA, they have been included in the Agency's income and expenditureaccounts.

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Table 17

Statement of income from non-governmental sourcesfor the year ended 31 December 1979

(In United States dollars)

"T

(United States dollars)

769500

Contributor

Austria

AustroplanRobert Brunner

Belgium

Spernol, Dr. Alfred

Canada

Canadian Save the Children FundEatonia United Church WomenTrinity United ChurchSundry donors

Denmark

Statens Seruminstitute

Gaza

Abu Hiddain familyAbu Salim familyAbu Sha "b familyAwada familyAwada and Abu Middain familiesBahloul, Mr. Y.El Musaddar familyMaghazi Water CommitteeMussadar and Qurvan familiesHaqf DepartmentTeachers - Jabalia elementary school, GazaTeachers and students - Nuseirat elementary 'A'

girls school, GazaTeachers - Rafah preparatory girls school, GazaTeachers - Beit Hanoun elementary 'B' girls school, GazaSundry donors

Germany, Federal Republic .2.!.

Daimler - Benz AGHirsch, Dr. H.Sundry donors

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21 713168

1 212130

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(United states dollars)

Arabian American Oil Company (ARAl1CO)

Domestic Centre of Workers UnionNorwegian Refugee CouncilRedd Barna

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Council of Organizations for Relief, Rehabilitationand Development (CORSO) Inc.

Table 17 (continued)

American MissionGreek Orthodox CommunityHeirs of Saadeddin ShatilaMneimneh and BohsalySyrian Lebanese t1issionRefugees, Hia !-Ha Camp, Saida

Jordanian citizenMunicipal Council, QalqiliaAnonymousSundry donors

Japan Shipbuilding Industry FoundationUnion of Ja?an Pharmacy Group

Sundry donors

Swedish Committee for Palestine RefugeesSwedish Save the Children Federation (Radda Barnen)Landstrom, Mr. B.Sundry donors

Contributor

Lebanon

Jordan

Ne"r Zealand

NOTVray

Saudi Arabia

Sweden

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----------------------_._-----------Contributor--------------------------- --Switzerland

Caritas. Ciba - Geigy Ltd.Comite Internationale de la Croix RougeEssex Chemie AG LucerneHoutermans, ~'tr. ArnoKappeler, ~~. J.Krbec, Hiss Eva MarieSandoz Pharmaceutical Division Ltd.Sundry donors

Syrian Arab Republic

Syrian local authorities

United Kingdom of Great Britain andNorthern Ireland

Lady RennieBrune Park County HiBh School GosportEvans Hedi.ca.L Ltd. LiverpoolHirian Carey EstateOXFAM'Save the Children FundUNIPALSundry donors

United States of America

American Near East Refugee Aid Inc. (ANERA)AMER Division of ANERABrittain, t~. RobertThe Estate of Ina Hargaret McAu1ayJedlica Junior High SchoolNAJDA (American Women for the Middle East)Moes, Mr. J. DouglasHullins, Mr. DavidNoble, Miss AlbertaQuaintance, t~. CharlesSundry donors

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(United States dollars)

12 969954

3 845767121202

1 2238 175

6

3 317

100135100

5 500167 36,

3 66145080

6 85047 062

1 000500150700500140270150102

jiI'j

I'I~

Table 17 (continued)I1f,f Contributorf'I'r-I' International organizations

Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs:

CanadaFinlandNew ZealandSwitzerlandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern IrelandUnited States of America

Church World ServicesNational Federation of United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)Association of Japan

National Federation of United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)Association of the Netherlands

Near East Council of ChurchesPontifical Mission for Palestine

Miscellaneous

Palestine Liberation Organization

Total

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(United States dollars)

545100220700

70436

47 400

180

5 000.1 293

88 078

62

1 769 365

Table 18

dollars)

Direct assistance to Palestine refugees ~/

(1 July 1979-30 June 1980)

H.B. All data shown in the table beLcv were provided by theGovernments concerned and are expressed in United States dollarscomputed by applying the Agency's accoun~ing rates of exchange,which are ~ased on official or free market rates, as appropriate.

Egypt Israel Jordan LebanonSyrian Arab

Republic

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a/ This assistance was rendered direct to the refugees and in addition tocontributions to UNRWA (see table 16).

k/ No figure provided.

£! Security and miscellaneous services are included in administrative costs.

~ Includes expenditure for displaced persons.

40 800 798590 59435 457 31998 710 000 19 345 200

Educationservices 27 000 000 5 980 000 7 471 382 'E..! 22 627 300

Social welfareservices 1 500 000 986 700 6 004 000 58 427 1 282 000

Medical services El 6 279 000 616 916 - 'E..! 1 153 800

Housing 2 840 500 383 306 277 679 1 661 021

Security services £! £! 427 452 El 3 846 000

MiscellaneouAservices s..! £! 17 265 801 g..! 55 716 6 384 677

Administrativecosts 70 210 000 3 259 000 3 288 462 if 198 772 3 846 000

'.~ ~.-. ---~ ""

Grandtotal

16 692 E:.I

16 842

113

113

Total

25

25

Occupied byLoanec staff '!2..!

International posts

88

88

Occupied byUNRWA staff

Localposts ~I

16 579 E./

16 729

Voluntary agencies which have operational programmes fordirect assistance to UlTRlTA-registered refugees ,~

(1 July 1979-30 June 1980)

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UNRWA manning table posts as at 30 June 1979 and 30 June 1980

Table 20-----

Table 19

al This assistance was rendered direct to the refugees in additionto contributions to UNRWA (see table 17).

American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), Arab Relief Fund (Jordan),Arab Women's League (Lebanon), Arab Women's Society (Jordan), Associationfor the Development of Palestine Camps (Lebanon), Baptist Mission,CARITAS, Catholic Relief Services, Christian Reformed World ReliefCommittee, Commonwealth Save the Children Fund, Holy Land ChristianMission, International Committee of the Red Cross, Islamic Society(Jordan), Lutheran World Federation, Mennonite Central Committee,Near East Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, Pontificaltussion for Palestine, Terre des Hommes, World Alliance of YMCAs, YoungMen's Christian Association, Yotmg Women's Christian Association.

Date

June 1979

June 1980

~I Virtually all local posts are occupied by Palestine refugees.

bl These posts are occupied by staff on non-reimbursable loan from otherUnited Nations organizations.

cl Owing to computer error this figure was erroneoue.Iy reported to be16,562 in the previous annual report.

dl Owing to computer error this figure was erroneously reported to be16,675 in the previous annual report.

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ANNEX II

16 692 !1/1951: Ibid.,

16 8421952: Ibid. ,

1953: ~.,

1950: Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session. Supplement No. 19(A/1451/Rev.l) ;

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Seventh Session. Supplement Nos. 13 and 13A (A/2171 and Add.1);

Sixth Session, Supplement Nos. 16 and 16A (A/1905 and Add.l);

Pertinent resolutions. reports and other documents of theGeneral Assembly and other United Nations bodies

Reports of the Director (Commissioner-General) of UNRWA and specialreports of the Director a~d the Advisory Commission to the GeneralAssembly:

I'. Pertinent General Assembly resolutions:

Resolution Nc. Date of adoption Resolution No. Date of adoption

194 (III) 11 December 1948 2252 (ES-V) 4 July 1967212 (Ill) 19 November 1945 2341 (XXII) 19 December 1967302 (IV) 8 December 1949 2452 (XXIII) 19 December 1968393 (V) 2 December 1950 2535 (XXIV) 10-December 1969513 (VI) 26 January 1952 2656 (xxv) 7 December 1970614 (VII) 6 November 1952 2672 (XXV) 8 December 1970720 (VIII) 27 November 1953 2728 (XXV) 15 December 1970818 (IX) 4 December 1954 2791 (XXVI) 6 December 1971916 (X) 3 December 1955 2792 A to E (XXVI) 6 December 1971

1018 (XI) 28 February 1957 2963 A to F (XXVII) 13 December 19721191 (XII) 12 December 1957 2964 (XXVII) 13 December 19721315 (XIII) 12 December 1958 3089 A to E (XXVIII) 7 December 19731456 (XIV) 9 December 1959 3090 (XXVIII) 7 December 19731604 (XV) 21 April 1961 3330 (XXIX) 17 December 19741725 (XVI) 20 December 1961 3331 (XXIX) 17 December 19741856 (XVII) 20 December 1962 3410 (XXX) 8 December 19751912 (XVIII) 3 December 1963 31/15 A to E 24 November 19762002 (XIX) 10 February 1965 32/90 A to F 13 December 19772052 (XX) 15 December 1965 33/112 A to F 18 December 19782154 (XXI) 17 November 1966 34/52 A to F 23 November 1979

2.

Eighth Session, Supplement Nos. 12 and 12A (A/2470 and Add.l);

1954: Ibid., Ninth Session. Supplement Nos. 17 and 17A (A/2717 and Add.l);

1955: Ibid., Tenth Session. Supplement Nos. 15 and 15A (A/2978 and Add.l);

1956: Ibid., Eleventh Session, Supplement Nos. 14 and 14A (A/3212 and Add.l);

1957: Ibid., Twelfth Session. Supplement No. 14 (A/3686 and Corr.l); and A/3735;

Grandtotal

rordan) ,lociationI,

IfianjY

idition

I

ica.L, Young

to be

to be

1

-om other

fi[

1958: Ibid., Thirteenth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/3931) ; and A/3948;

1959: Ibid. , Fourteenth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/4213) ;

1960: Ibid. , Fifteenth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/4478);

1961: Ibid. , Sixteenth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/4861) ;

1962: Ibid., Seventeenth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/5214);

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Ibid., Twentieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/6013);

Ibid., Eighteenth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/5513);

Ibid., Nineteenth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/5813);

Ibid., Twenty-first Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/6313);

Ibid., Twenty-second Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/6713); A/6723 and Add.land Add.l/Corr.l. For the printed text, see Official Records of theSecurity Council, Twenty-second Year, Supplement for April, May andJune 1967, document S/8001; and ibid., Supplement for July, August andSeptember 1967., document S/8001/Add.l;

Ibid., Twenty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/8013);

Ibid., TvTenty-third Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/7213);

Ibid., Tvrenty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/7614);

Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Session,Supplement No. 13 (A/8413);

Special report of the Commissioner-General on the effect on Palestinerefugees of recent operations carried out by the Israeli militaryauthorities in the Gaza Strip (A/8383 and Add.l);

Reports by the Commissioner-General on UNRWA operations in Jordan(Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fifth Session, Annexes,agenda item 35, document A/8084 and Add.l);

Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-seventh Session,Supplement No. 13 (A/e713 and Corr.l and 2);

Ibid., Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/9013);

1972:

1968:

1969:

1970:

1971:

1972:

1973:

1974: Ibid., Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/9613 and Corr.l);

1975: Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/I0013 and Corr.l);

1976: Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/31/13 and Corr.l);

1977: Ibid" Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/32/13 and Corr.l);

1963:

1964:

E1965:!

1966:

1967:

!~.'.~

.\

.on

167168169170no)70

~71

~71

172172173~73

174174175176977978979

A/3948 ;1978: Ibid., Thirty-third Session. Supplement No. 13 (A/33/13);

1979: Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session. Supplement No. 13 (A/34/13 and Corr.l).

3. Reports of the Working Group on the Financing of UNRWA:

1970: Official Records of the General Assembly. TwentY-fifth Session. Annexes,agenda item 35, document A/8264;

1971: Document A/8476 and Corr.l;

Thirty-second Session, Annexes, agenda item 55, document A/32i278;

Thirtieth Session. Annexes, agenda item 54, document A/I0334;

Thirty-third Session, Annexes, agenda item 54, document A/33/320;

Thirty-first Session, Annexes, agenda item 53, document A/31/279;

Twenty-ninth Session. Annexes, agenda item 38, document A/9815;

1972: Ibid., ~lenty-seventh Session. Annexes, agenda item 40, document A/8849;

Twenty-eighth Session. Annexes, agenda item 43, document A/9231;1973: Ibid. ,

1974: Ibid••

1975: Ibid. ,

l/6723 and Add.l1976: Ibid. ,'ds of the

May and1977: Ibid.,August and

1978: Ibid.,

1979: Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Annexes, agenda item 50, document A/34/567.

Jordan:sion, Annexes,

l Palestine.litary

Corr.l) ;

. Corr.l);

4. Economic and Social Council resolution 1565 (L) of 3 May 1971

5. other documents:

1949: Final report of the United Nations Economic Survey Mission for theMiddle East (28 December 1949) (A/AC.25/6, parts I and 11);

1949: Report of the Secretary-General on assistance to Palestine refugees(Official Records of the General Assembly. Fourth Session. Ad Hoc PoliticalCommittee. Annexes, vol. 11 (1060), p. 14);

1959: Proposals for the continuation of United Nations aSEistance to Palestinerefugees: document submitted by the Secretary-General (Official Recordsof the General Assembly. Fourteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 27,document A/4121 and Corr.l);

1967: Report by the Secretary-General under General Assembly resolution 2252 (ES-V)and Security Council resolution 237 (1967) (A/6787 and Corr.l). For theprinted text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Twenty-secondYear, Supplement for July, August and September 1967, document s/8l24;

1969: Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 2452 A (XXIII)of 19 December 1968 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Twenty-fourth Session, Annexes, agenda item 36, document A!7665):Return of displaced persons;

dCorr.l);

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!.'

1970: Reports by the Commissioner-General on ill~R~~~ operations in Jordan(Official Records of the General ~ssembly, Twenty-fifth Session, Annexes,agenda item-3~ocumentA/8084 and Add.l);

1971: Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 2672 D (XXV)of 8 December 1970 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Twenty-sixth Session, Annexes, agenda item 41 C, document A/8366):Return of displaced persons;

1;

Special report of thp Commissioner-General on the effect on Palestinerefugees of recent operations carried out by the Israeli militaryauthorities in the Gaza Strip (A/8383 and Add.l);

Joint Appeal by the President of the General Assembly and theSecretary-General (A/8526);

Report of the Secretary-General under General Assembly resolution3089 C (XXVIII) of 7 December 1973 (Official Records of the GeneralAssemblY, ~Tenty-ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item 38, document A/9740):Displaced persons;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 2792 E (XXVI)of 6 December 1971 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Twenty-seventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 40, document A/8786):Return of displaced persons;

Report of the Secr~tary-Genera1 under General Assembly resolution2963 C (XXVII) of 13 December 1972 (Official Records of the GeneralAssembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Annexes, agenda item 43, document A/9l55)Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip;

Report of the Secretary-General under General Assembly resolution2963 D (XXVII) of 13 December 1972 (Official Records of the GeneralAssembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Annexes, agenda item 43, document A/9l56)Return of displaced persons;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 3331 D (XXIX)of 17 December 1974 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Thirtieth Session, Annexes, agenda item 54, document A/l0253): Returnof displaced persons;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 2792 C (XXVI)of 6 December 1971 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Twenty-seventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 40, document A/8814):Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of ' resolution 3419 C (XXX)of 8 December 1975 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Thirty-first Session, Annexes, agenda item 53, document A/3l/240):Displaced persons;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 31/15 D of23 November 1976 (Official Records of the General Assembly,Thirty-second Session, Annexes, agenda item 55, document A/32/203):Population and refugees displaced;

~1974:

lels

1975:

(ES-V),e~

1976:

I)

1977:

1972:

);

r8 ;

);

>7 ~1973:

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in JordanSession. Annexes,

Lon 2672 D (XXV)~mbly,

lt A/8366):

~ on Palestine~ military

Id the

1978:

._-" -." .-' :..::..:..::.-==----=-=~~""""W"'=f'\ll,I

~Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 31/15 E of ~

23 November 1976 (Official Records of the General Assembly c Thi'r-ty-second'"S,~s,s,i~nJ_~nexesJ acenda iter;;'55-~-doclLrnent'A/32/264and Co"rrol and Add.l):Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip;

Report of the Secretary·-General in pursuance of resolution 32/90 C of13 December 1977 (Official Records of the General Assembly? Thirty,-thirdSession; Annexes, asenda item 54 0 document A/33/285): Palestine refugeesin't~GazaStrip~

Renort of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 32/90 E of13 December 1977 (Official Records of the General Assembly" Thir~y-third

Sessio~.2-~nexes 0 ae;enda 'it-em-54-:-'document'A/337286); Return of displli;edpersons "

.on 2792 E (XXVI)~mbly ,It A/8786):

.on 2792 C (XXVI)~mbly ,Lt A/8814):

-eso.Lutdonthe Generall, document A/9155):

'esolutionthe GeneralI, document A/9156):

'esolutionthe General

document A/9740):

on 3331 D (XXIX)embly,,0253) : Return

on 3419 C (XXX)mbly,A/31/240) :

on 31/15 D ofly,A/32/203) :

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 32/90 F of13 Der:ember 1977 (Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty·third.S~sEion Jl.nnexes, a!i:endli-iteIl1~-54-;-do-c'wnent""A73-3!287) : Scholarships a~d'

e;rants <

1979: Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 33/112 C of18 December 1978 (Offi.cial Records of the General Assembly J Thirty-fourthSessio!2.2..Annexeso agenda item"'5-0-;'document A/34/480): Offers ofscholarships and grants for higher education for Palestine refugees:

Report of the Secretary· General in pursuance of resolution 33/112 E of18 December 1978 (Official Records ~f the General Assembly, Thirty-fourthSession, Annexes) agenda item 5-0',,-doc~ent A/34/517): Palestine refue;eesI~the- Gaza Str{p;

Report of the Secretary-General in pursuance of resolution 33/112 F of18 December 1978 (Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth,Session" Annexes., aE;'endli-item5'0) docu1nentj~?34r5i8'): Population and .,refugees displaced since 1967,

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