What is UNRWA’s budget?
UNRWA’s biennium regular budget for 2010 and 2011 is US$1.23 billion, although expenditure is likely to be less because of forecast shortfalls in donation income. As a result of the humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory caused by the conflict and Israeli closures, UNRWA has launched repeated emergency appeals since 2000 for emergency food, employment and cash assistance. In 2009, UNRWA’s total budget for its core programmes, emergency activities and special projects was US$1.2 billion, for which the Agency received US$948 million.
