{"id":199727,"date":"2014-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199727"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:50:22","slug":"auto-insert-199727","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199727\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA strengthens partnership with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Strengthens Partnership with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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11 April 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

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Amman<\/span>
الأونروا تعزز الشراكة مع اليونيسكو<\/strong><\/a>
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The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works Agency (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA), which provides assistance and protection to some 5 million Palestinian refugees, made key contributions to conferences in Paris and Oslo led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO). The collaborations and sharing of experiences will further deepen the historic 60-year collaboration between Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO. <\/p><\/div>\n

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At the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Mobile Learning Week Conference, held in Paris from 17 to 21 February, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA showcased a state of the art educational platform. The Short Message System (SMS) Platform will be used to send informational, instructional and motivational messages to school principals, teachers and administrators. The platform will benefit over 21,000 educators in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan. <\/p><\/div>\n

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“Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO has always one of the most important and strategic Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA partners,” said Dr. Ayman Murad, Head of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA education programme’s Partnerships, Communication and ICT Unit. “We are delighted at the opportunity to participate in this flagship conference on mobile learning, and illustrate how a tried and tested technology like SMS can be used to reach educators in far-flung rural areas and refugee camps in a flexible and cost-effective way.” <\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA also contributed to the launch of the 2013\/14 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The report is the primary instrument for analysing global progress towards meeting the education goals set forth by over 160 countries at the 2000 World Education Forum. The latest edition of the report, focused on Teaching and Learning: Achieving Quality for All, was launched in February at a conference in Oslo, hosted by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Norwegian Refugee Council.<\/p><\/div>\n

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At the conference, Dr. Caroline Pontefract, Director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Education Programme, gave a presentation on ‘Quality Schools for Quality Teaching for Palestine Refugees’. Dr. Pontefract provided attendees with insights on the implementation of the Agency's education reform, which has focused on teacher effectiveness as one of the most important school-based predictors of quality education. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA education reform is currently being implemented, and will benefit 703 schools serving over 500,000 students, over half of whom are girls.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO have worked together for 60 years in providing Palestinian children with quality education”, said Dr. Pontefract. “We are delighted to be share the experience of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA education reform, which has benefited from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO support at the launch of this year’s report on how the world is doing in terms of achieving Education for All and the centrality of teachers in this process.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Background Information<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, and microfinance.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Financial support to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has not kept pace with an increased demand for services caused by growing numbers of registered refugees, expanding need, and deepening poverty. As a result, the Agency's General Fund (GF), supporting Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s core activities and 97 per cent reliant on voluntary contributions, has begun each year with a large projected deficit. Currently the deficit stands at US$ 68 million.<\/p><\/div>\n

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For more information, please contact :<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Christopher Gunness<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Mobile: +972 (0)54 240 2659<\/p><\/div>\n

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Office: +972 (0)2 589 0267<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sami Mshasha<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Arabic Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Mobile: +972 (0)54 216 8295<\/p><\/div>\n

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Office: +972 (0)2 589 0724<\/p><\/div>\n

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s.mshasha@unrwa.org<\/u><\/a> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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