UNRWA Programs
EDUCATION
UNRWA operates one of the largest school systems in the Middle East, with nearly 700 schools, and has been the main provider of primary education to Palestine refugees for sixty years.
Vocational Training Centers and Human Rights Promotion are currently two of UNRWA's greatest educational focuses.
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HEALTH
UNRWA delivers basic health services and is responsible for providing a healthy living environment for Palestine refugees, guided by the Millennium Development Goals on health and by the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO).
UNRWA’s overarching goal is to enable refugees to live long and healthy lives, by:
- ensuring universal access to quality comprehensive services
- preventing and controlling disease
- protecting and promoting family health.
The Agency’s network of primary healthcare facilities and mobile clinics provides the foundation of its health services, offering preventive, general medicine and specialist care services tailored for each stage of life. In 2008, UNRWA staff performed 9.6 million medical consultations.
Although UNRWA mainly focuses on primary health care, it also helps refugees access secondary and tertiary care services.
For more information about UNRWA health programs click here.
RELIEF & SOCIAL SERVICES
The relief and social services (RSS) programme provides a range of direct and indirect social protection services in the Agency’s five fields of operation.
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MICROFINANCE & MICROENTERPRISE PROGRAMME
UNRWA’s microfinance department provides income-generating opportunities for Palestine refugees, as well as other poor or marginal groups who live and work near them.
For more information about UNRWA Microfinance& Microenterprise Programmes click here.
It extends credit and complementary financial services to small-business owners, microenterprise entrepreneurs and households. These investments sustain and create jobs, reduce poverty, and empower our clients, particularly women.
The department focuses on three main goals:
- Providing impoverished Palestine refugees with social safety net assistance on a quarterly basis.
- Promoting the development and self-reliance of less-advantaged members of the refugee community, especially women, children, young people, people with disabilities and the elderly.
- Maintaining, updating and preserving the records and documents of registered Palestine refugees, in order to determine eligibility for UNRWA services.
