United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (West Bank & Gaza)

Operating through more than 11,000 staff in over 200 installations across the Gaza Strip, UNRWA delivers education, health care, relief and social services, microcredit and emergency assistance to registered Palestine refugees.

In recent years, the Agency has made significant improvements to its services in Gaza, such as its schools of excellence and excellent health services initiatives. It also better targets its assistance to the poorest of the poor through the implementation of a proxy-means tested poverty survey. UNRWA continues to:

• Improve the academic achievement, behaviour and values of school students
• Construct desperately needed infrastructure, including schools and shelters
• Improve the quality and targeting of its food and cash assistance to the poorest of the poor
• Promote gender equality and human rights for all
• Nurture entrepreneurship by supporting the private sector