Project profile — Food Security for Palestinian Refugees - West Bank and Gaza - UN Consolidated Appeal 2009

• West Bank Gaza (100.00%)

• Emergency Response: Emergency food aid (72040) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project has helped improve the ability of vulnerable Palestinian refugees to deal with the difficult social, economic, and political situation in the West Bank and Gaza. CIDA's contribution, with that of other donors, had allowed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to improve the food security of the refugees by providing them with food assistance. This project is one of over 300 projects that made up the United Nations' 2009 Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for the West Bank and Gaza. The 2009 CAP, worth over US$876 million, has allowed the international community to help spare Palestinians from the worst effects of the ongoing crisis by delivering humanitarian assistance, increasing the protection of civilians, improving the collection of humanitarian information, and strengthening the United Nations' humanitarian coordination structure. Overall, through this appeal, non-governmental organisations and the United Nations have helped restore human dignity and alleviate further poverty, institutional weakness, and instability in the West Bank and Gaza.

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Results as of the end of the project include: 4,201 tonnes of wheat flour, 1,475 tonnes of rice, 841 tonnes of powdered milk, 1,410,814 litres of sunflower oil and 1,877,719 tins of luncheon meat were purchased with CIDA’s contribution. With these commodities, and those funded by other donors, UNRWA helped improve the food security of more than 134,000 needy families in Gaza or nearly 700,000 people.

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