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Palestine Red Crescent Society Appeal No. MAAPS001 - Annual Report 2010

Pays
territoire Palestinien occupé
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Sources
IFRC
Date de publication
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1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010

In brief

Programme outcome: Support the Palestine Red Crescent Society (Palestine RCS) response to the needs of the most vulnerable in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and the Palestinian refugees in the Diaspora.

Programme(s) summary:
After the failure of the ‘peace talks’ in 2010, the Palestinian National Authority has announced it will unilaterally declare the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders and seek UN and international recognition at the UN General Assembly in late 2011. At the same time, while a strong push towards political change has begun interesting most of the Middle East, the situation of the Palestinian population has not improved and the occupation still impeded during 2010 a normal life or proper social and economic development. Gaza has for the whole period still been under a tight blockade, and no meaningful reconstruction has even started. The settlement expansion and the eviction of Palestinians have increased during 2010 in the West Bank and East Jersualem, where the separation wall and the many checkpoints impeded free movement of people and goods. For millions of refugees abroad the right of return is still a dream after up to 62 years of exile.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has during 2010 strengthened its community work in Disaster Risk Reduction, Primary Health care, Psycho-social support and Rehabilitation, continued developing its Disaster Management capacities, and continued providing services to several hundreds of thousands of Palestinians both in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Lebanon and Syria camps, and Egypt. Committed to learning and improving its operational capacity, PRCS has maintained during 2010 a mature cooperation with 14 partner Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, the ICRC and a number of other actors, including the Palestinian National Authority. It received technical and programmatic support by the Federation. This report covers the whole of PRCS’s activities and the support and cooperation of its partners.

Financial situation: The revised total 2010 budget is CHF 291,837, of which CHF 352,008 (121% per cent) covered (328,873). Overall expenditure during 2010 period was CHF 270,135 (92% per cent) of the budget.

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No. of people we have reached: the Palestine Red Crescent Society has been working on a monitoring system to capture the exact numbers of beneficiaries of its activities, moving from a system that registers services provided to a system that records beneficiaries too. In 2010, several hundreds of thousands of persons were reached by the different programmes run by PRCS.

The Federation focused its support to PRCS in OD, DM and coordination of its cooperation.

Our partners: Eight National Societies working directly with PRCS have a presence in Palestine (Danish Red Cross, German Red Cross, Italian Red Cross, Norwegian Red Cross together with Swedish Red Cross, Qatar Red Crescent, Spanish Red Cross, and Turkish Red Crescent), while a series of other National Societies support directly PRCS but have no permanent presence in Palestine (British Red Cross, Finnish Red Cross, French Red Cross,
Icelandic Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross, United Arab Emirates Red Crescent). The Italian Red Cross has been supporting the Federation appeal. PRCS maintains close working relations with the ICRC.
In addition, PRCS receives support from the Palestinian National Authority and has excellent partnerships with a large number of organizations and agencies. We would like to recall the French Cooperation agency, Asamblea de Cooperacion por la Paz, UNRWA, Norwegian Aid Committee, Norwegian Palestine Committee, Save the Children, UNICEF, amongst others. .