  {"id":198313,"date":"2007-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=198313"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:34:36","slug":"auto-insert-198313","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198313\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHRC, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA and OPEC Fund for International Development sign agreements on humanitarian projects &#8211; OFID press release\/Non-Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:14px;font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA and OFID initial agreements to pursue humanitarian projects <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">25\/2007 August 31, 2007, Vienna, Austria <br \/>\nPress inquiries: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:info@ofid.org\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><u>info@ofid.org<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) welcomed, August 30, high representatives of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA, visiting the institution to sign agreements for various grants aimed at advancing the work of the three organizations. Dr. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, the United Nations Population Fund; HE Dr. Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and Mr. Filippo Grandi, Deputy Commissioner General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, were received at OFID by Director-General Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Al-Herbish spoke of the long-standing cooperation between OFID and all three organizations and said the three and OFID were united in their commitment and dedication to the common cause of humanitarianism. Mr. Al-Herbish described his three guests as leaders who do vital work and have merited the accolade and trust of the international community.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA is to pursue a <i>Palestinian Population, Housing and Establishment Census, <\/i>with US$1,500,000 in OFID grant assistance; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR will implement an <i>OFID\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR Joint HIV\/AIDS Program for Internally Displaced Persons &amp; Returnees in C&#244;te d&#8217;Ivoire &amp; Liberia, <\/i>with US$300,000 in equal contributions from OFID and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR; while <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA carries out projects under an <i>OFID Micro Enterprises for Palestine Fund (PALFÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµD),<\/i>&nbsp;with US$4.5 million in OFID grant. OFID created PALFÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµD in 2002 and entrusted its administration to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Cooperation between OFID and all three organizations dates back several years. Thus far, OFID has pursued seven projects with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA for a total US$7.6 million; 10 projects with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR for the cumulative amount of US$5.1 million; and11 projects with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA, in the sum of US$13.3 million. OFID has also worked, over many years, to help relieve hardships in Palestine. Between 1979 and 2002, some seven grant projects and programs, worth US$18.1 million, were implemented by OFID to the benefit of the Palestinians. A <i>Special Grant Account for Palestine<\/i>&nbsp;was created in 2002 and has delivered financing of US$44.5 million for humanitarian projects in Palestine. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA and OFID initial agreements to pursue humanitarian projects 25\/2007 August 31, 2007, Vienna, Austria Press inquiries: info@ofid.org&nbsp; The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) welcomed, August 30, high representatives of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFPA, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµHCR and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA, visiting the institution to sign agreements for various grants aimed at advancing the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198313\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[3005,2753,2337,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1937,3589,1745],"entity":[1889,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-198313","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-opec-fund-for-international-development","document-source-united-nations-high-commissioner-for-refugees-unhcr","document-source-united-nations-population-fund-unfpa","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-population","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/198313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/198313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=198313"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=198313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}