oPt emergency appeal progress report - for the reporting period 01 January – 30 June 2020

by the authorities for persons coming into Gaza from Israel school materials) that UNRWA had planned to distribute to and Egypt, the number of COVID-19 cases remained low all students at the beginning of the school year could not be through to the end of the reporting period and into July and provided due to funding constraints. [...] To ensure the continuity While the general level of violence and associated number of education of 282,360 students in UNRWA schools, the of demonstration-related casualties decreased in early 2020, Agency rolled out its Education in Emergencies (EiE) approach the COVID-19 emergency further compounded the chronic adjusted to the specific context of COVID-19. [...] With these funds, the Agency continued emergency appeal planning, monitoring and reporting to support the planning, monitoring and evaluation of activities, while the online Results Based Monitoring (RBM) emergency interventions and activities related to the safety system allowed the Agency to track actual results against and security of staff and refugees and the neutrality of its planned priorit. [...] staff and patients at Kalandia Health • GFO and WBFO have minimum- Centre and required the early closure preparedness steps in place, such of the centre on that day as updated emergency supply • The number of detentions overall lists, critical/essential staff lists and decreased in the period immediately the ability to utilize the Agency’s following the declaration of a state emergency staff roste. [...] identify solutions and advances from the UNRWA • The assistance provided by UNRWA to perception of UNRWA operations and • Conduct regular and periodic • Quarterly results-based monitoring programme budget, increasing respond to COVID-19 specific needs potential cuts training in procurement and financial (RBM) of the effectiveness of the exposure of the Agency to financial was positively received.