UNRWA in Focus
UNRWA in Focus
BP 1 – An Agency in Evolution:
A collection of all United Nations General Assembly Resolutions concerning the Middle East: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/un-general-assembly-resolutions-on-israel-middle-east
UNRWA General Fund Programme Budget 2020-2021: https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/2020-2021_programme_budget_blue_book.pdf
United Nations Voting Records: https://www.un.org/en/ga/documents/voting.asp
UNRWA Strategy & Policy: https://www.unrwa.org/resources/strategy-policy
UNRWA Donor Charts: https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/government-partners/funding-trends/donor-charts
BP 2 – The US and UNRWA
UNRWA’s Annual Donors and Funding Breakdowns: https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/government-partners/funding-trends/donor-charts
US-UNRWA Cooperation Frameworks 2009-2017: https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/prm/releases/frameworknew/index.htm
Bocco R, “UNRWA and the Palestinian refugees: A history within a history.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 28, No. 2 & 3 (2009): 229-252, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdq001
Bartholomeusz L, “The Mandate of UNRWA at Sixty.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 28, No. 2 & 3 (2009): 452-474, https://www.unrwa.org/userfiles/201006109246.pdf
BP 3 – UNRWA and WHO
World Health Assembly 73rd session: https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha73.html
WHO Basic Documents: https://apps.who.int/gb/bd/
WHO Corporate Brochure: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/about-us/global-guardian-of-public-health.pdf?sfvrsn=f59a271_2
UNRWA Who We Are: https://www.unrwa.org/who-we-are
UNRWA General Fund Programme Budget 2020-2021: https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/20202021_programme_budget_blue_book.pdf
BP 4 – Comparing UNRWA to INGOs
World Vision information bank: https://www.worldvision.org.uk/our-work/reports-papers-and-briefings/
Save the Children Reports: https://www.savethechildren.net/research-reports
Oxfam Annual reports: https://www.oxfam.org/en/what-we-do/about/our-finances-and-accountability/annual-reports-and-financial-statements
UNRWA Reports: https://www.unrwa.org/resources
BP 5 – Criticisms 1 – UNRWA Perpetuates the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies: https://besacenter.org/?s=UNRWA#.YGiTTehKjIV.
Middle East Quarterly: https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/.
BP 6 – Criticisms 2 – UNRWA the Pacifier?
Brown, N. J. , Time to Rethink, But Not Abandon, International Aid to Palestinians. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (2018): https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/12/17/time-to-rethink-but-not-abandon-international-aid-to-palestinians-pub-77985
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. “The Changing Faces of UNRWA: From the Global to the Local.” Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 1, No. 1 (2019): 28-41, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332237242_The_Changing_Faces_of_UNRWA
Harawi, Y., “Do not Punish Palestinian Refugees for UNRWA Dysfunction.” Al Jazeera, 1st August 2019, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/8/1/do-not-punish-palestinian-refugees-for-unrwa-dysfunction/.
International Crisis Group, “Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question.” Crisis Group Middle East Report, No.156 (9th October 2014), https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/eastern-mediterranean/israelpalestine/bringing-back-palestinian-refugee-question
BP 7 – UNRWA and the Arab Gulf States
UNRWA’s Annual Donors and Funding Breakdowns: https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/government-partners/funding-trends/donor-charts
Lamis El-Sharqawy, ‘The Gulf Reconsiders UNRWA’, Ahram Online, 9th February 2021, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1203/402736/AlAhram-Weekly/World/The-Gulf-reconsiders-UNRWA.aspx
Reuters Staff, ‘UAE halts funding to UN Palestinian Agency in ‘reset’ of aid programme’, Reuters, February 8th 2021, https://www.reuters.com/article/emirates-palestinians-aid-int-idUSKBN2A81W8
BP 8 – UNRWA as a Small-Sized State: Comparison with Lesotho and Eritrea
World Bank data on Eritrea and Lesotho: https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=ER-LS
For data on demography: https://population.un.org/wpp/
IMF report on selected economic data for Eritrea and Lesotho: Report for Selected Countries and Subjects (imf.org)
Lesotho Bureau of Statistics reports: BOS Publications
2020/21 Mid-Term Budget Review from the parliament of Lesotho: 2020/21 MID-TERM BUDGET REVIEW (www.gov.ls)
BP 9 – UNRWA and Palestinian Refugee Demography
Chatty, D., ‘Palestinian Refugee Youth: Agency and Aspiration’, Refugee Survey Quarterly, 28 (2009), pp. 318–338.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., ‘The Changing Face of UNRWA: From Global to Local’, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 1 (2019), pp. 28-41.
Strong, J., et al. ‘Health Status and Health Needs of Older Refugees from Syria in Lebanon’ Conflict and Health, 9 (2015).
UNRWA, ‘Registered Population Dashboard’ https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/relief-and-social-services/unrwa-registered-population-dashboard
BADIL Resource Centre, (2018) ‘Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced People, 2016-2018’ https://www.badil.org/publications/survey-of-palestinian-refugees
BP 10 – UNRWA and Humanitarian Aid
Narfeldt, S. ‘Role of the Private Sector in Humanitarian Response’, Forced Migration Review, 29 (2007), p.67
Humanitarian Leadership Academy and HSBC, ‘The Role of the Private Sector in Humanitarian Action: Progress and Prognosis’, April 2019, https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/wpcontent/uploads/2019/04/HSBCandtheAcademy_PrivateSectorHumanitarianAction_April2019_FINAL.pdf
UNOCHA, Global Humanitarian Overview 2022, https://gho.unocha.org
UNRWA Programme Budget 2022-2023, https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/20222023_programme_budget_blue_book_-_final_211021.pdf
UNRWA, Resource Mobilisation Strategy, 2019-2021, https://www.unrwa.org/resources/strategy-policy/resource-mobilization-strategy-2019-2021