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of the United Nations Relief alldWorks Agency for Palestine Refugees

in tIle Near East1 July 1961- 30 June 1962

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OFFICIAL RECORDS : SEVENTEENTH SESSION

SUPPLEMENT No. 14 (A/S214)

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE COMMISSIONER-GENERAL

OF THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND

WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES

IN THE NEAR EAST

1 July 1961 - 30 June 1962

GENERA~ ASSEMBLY

OFFICIAL RECORDS : SEVENTEENTH SESSION

SUPPLEMENT No. 14 (A/5214)

UNITED NATIONS

New York, 1962

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LE'ITER OF TRANSMI'ITAL

Beirut, Lebanon27 August 1962

I have the honour to submit herewith my Annual Report to the General Assem­bly on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for PalestineRefugees in the Near East for the period 1 July 1961 to 30 June 1962, in compliancewith the request contained in paragraph 21 of resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December1949 and paragraph 8 of resolution 1315 (XIII) of 12 December 1958.

The report is presented in three main parts, as follows:

An Tntroduction, in which I have endeavoured to evaluate the present conditionof the Palestine refugees and their need for continued international assistance in thelight of certain factors which I consider relevant to any general review of theproblem;

Part I, representing an account of the Agency's activities during the 12 monthsending 30 June 1962, to which are annexed a number of statistical tables relating toparticular activities; and

Part TI, a presentation of the Agency's budget for the calendar year 1963 forconsideration by the General Assembly at its seventeenth session.

The Advisory Commission of the Agency has considered this report and itsviews are set forth in the letter of which I attach a copy.

As in previous years, I have attempted in the introduction to my report tosketch in the salient features of the Palestine refugee problem as they appear tome from my standpoint as the head of the United Nations agency which ministersto the needs of the Palestine refugees. I have done this because I feel it is a dutywhich I owe to the General Assembly, especially in a year when the Assembly hasto decide whether international assistance to the refugees should be continued for aperiod beyond 30 June 1963.

In thus highlighting the main features of the refugee problem as they appear tome, I am pursuing a precedent long established in the annual reports submitted bythose entrusted with the direction of this Agency. It is perhaps hardly necessary forme to emphasize that the assessment is my own and that I accept full and soleresponsibility for it. Although in drafting this and other parts of the report J havehad the benefit of comments and advice from the distinguished members of theAdvisory Commission, it should not be thought that the report necessarily reflectsthe opinions of the Commission or that the Governments represented in the Com­mission necessarily subscribe to all the views I have expressed.

(Signed) John H. DAVISCommissioner-General

President of the General Assembly,United Nations,New York.

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Dr. John H. Davis,Commissioner-General,United Nations Relief and Work Agency,Beirut

LEITER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COMMISSIONOF THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FORPALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST

Dear Dr. Davis,

At its meeting on 6 August 1962, the Advisory Commission of UNRWAreviewed with full consideration the annual report which you plan to submit to theseventeenth session of the General Assembly.

In the view of the Advisory Commission, the report accurately describes thevaluable work carried out by the Agency during the period 1 July 1961 to 30 June1962. It well reports progress on the three-year programme which you submittedto the General Assembly at its fifteenth session in 1960.

The Commission continues to consider the needs of the refugees as worthy ofthe most sympathetic attention of the world community. The Commission was alsoimpressed by your diligence in securing additional contributions to the carrying outof UNRWA responsibilities, particularly with a view to supporting the vocationaltraining programme.

Your proposed budget for the calendar year 1%3 gives details of new expendi­ture in the event that the mandate of UN RWA is to be extended beyond 30 June,1963. In their discussion of this and other aspects of the report, the members of theCommission reserved the position of their Governments.

In the view of the Commission your report will this year be of more than usualinterest since the future of UNRWA and the general welfare of the refugees willbe before the Assembly. My colleagues of the Advisory Commission join me in thisexpression of their views and in thanking you for your efforts in the preparationof this report.

Yours sincerely,(Signed) Amin HELMI EL TANI

Chairman,Advisory Commission

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1. This report by the Commissioner-General of theUnited Nations Relief and Works Agency for PalestineRefugees in the Near East (UNRWA) follows thegeneral pattern of previous annual reports.' It containsa brief review of the main features of the Palestinerefugee problem as they appear to the Commissioner­General, a summary of the Agency's activities duringthe year ending 30 June 1962, and the presentation ofa budget for the year 1963.

2. This year the General Assembly of the UnitedNations, in addition to reviewing the Agency's activi­ties during the past year and considering its budget fornext year, must deliberate the fact that the mandate ofUNRWA will expire as of 30 June 1963. To facili­tate the work of the General Assembly in this respectand, at the same time, to hold this annual report to thetraditional content and length, the Agency this year hasundertaken background studies on each of the followingsubjects:

(a) A brief history of UNRWA, 1950-1962;(b) Surnraary data on assistance to the Palestine

refugees, 1948-1962;

1 Information concerning the origin of the Agency and itsmission and work prior to 1 July 1961 will be found in the fol­lowinj:Lannual reports and other United Nations documents:

A. Final report of the United Nations Economics SurveyMission for the Middle East (28 December 1949) (A/AC.25/6,parts I and II).

B. Report of the Secretary-General on Assistance to Pales­tine Refugees: Official Records of the General Assembly,Fourtli Session, Ad Hoc Political Committee, Annexes, vol. II,p. 14 (A/1060).

C. Reports of the Director of UNRWA and special reportsof the Director and Advisory Commission to the GeneralAssembly: . .

(1I) Official Records 01. the General Assembly, Fifth SeSSIon,Sltppletllellt No. 19 (AI 451/Rev.1) ;

(b) Ibid., Si.~th Session, Supplements Nos. 16 and 16A( A/1905 and Add.!) ;

(c) Ibid., Seventh Session, Supplemmts Nos. 13 alld 13A(A/2171 and Add.1) ;

(d) tu«, Eighth Session, SlIpplemmts Nos. 12 and 12A(A/2470 and Add.l) ;

(e) tsu.. Ninth Session, SlIpplemeMs Nos. 17 and 17A(A/2717 and Add.!);

(I) tu«, TmtJr Session, SlIpple1nmts Nos. 15 and 15A(A/2978 and Add.I) :

(g) ius; Eleventh Session, Sltpple11lel1ts Nos. 14 alld 14A(A/3212 and Add.!);

(h) iu«, T't.CJelfth Session, Sllpplement No. 14 (A/3686 andA/3735) ; /3931

(i) Ibid., Thirteenth Session, Sltpplement No. 14 (Aand A/3948) ;

(j) iu«. Fourteentb Session, Supplement No. 14 (A/4213) ;(k) Ibiti., Fifteenth Session, Slfpplemmt No. 14 (A/4478);(I) Ibid .. Si.'deenth Session, SlIpplemen! No. 14 (A/4861).D. Pertinen t General Assembly resolutions :194 (IIl) of 11 December 1948; 212 (IIl) of 19 November

1948' 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949; 393 (V) of 2 December1950: 513 (VI) of 26 January 1952; 614 (VII) of 6 November1952: '720 (VIII) of 27 November 1953; 818 (IX) of 4Tl~ce"mber 1954; 916 (X) of 3 December 1955; 1018 (XI) of28 February 1957; 1191 (XII) of 12 December 1957; 1315(XIII) of 12 December 1958; 1456 (XIV) of 9 December1959; 1604 (XV) of 21 April 1961; 1725 (XVI) of 20 Decem­her 1961.

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(c) UNRWA education and training programme,1950-1962 ;

(d) UNRWA health programme, 1950-1962;

(e) UNRWA experience with self-support pro­gramme, 1950-1962;

(f) Problem of the rectification of the UNRWAration rolls, 1950-1962.

. 3".The purpose o~ these papers, which are beingdistributed to delegations as they are finished is to setforth in con.cise form the record and experie~ce of theAgency during the twelve-year period of its existence.In other words these studies, which review the materialcontained in successive annual reports, present a ver­tical picture of the Agency's operations through timeon selected subjects, whereas each annual report pre­sents a cross-section view for the period of a single year.Copies of these papers are available for distribution onrequest to other interested persons and organizations.

BACKGROUND

4. Looking back over the twelve years of UNRWA'sexistence (or for that matter, over the fourteen yearswhich have passed since the conflict in Palestine), itnow seems quite clear that the dominant forces respon­sible for the continuation of the refugee problem arethe impasse in regard to the basic issues involved, re­sulting from the deep feelings of the peoples in theMiddle East with respect to those issues; the generalunemployable status of dependent refugees, and parti­cularly of the maturing youth who are deficient inskills; and the over-all economic limitations of the hostcountries on absorbing refugees in addition to their owngrowing populations. While political considerations alsohave played a significant role, to a large degree theyappear to have been an expression of the more basicfactors just mentioned.

5. With respect to the feelings of the inhabitants ofthe Arab countries of the Middle East, it is, in theopinion of the Commissioner-General, the Arab peopleas a whole, and not just the million-odd displaced refu­gees, who feel deeply that an inj~stice has hee!1 com­mitted against the Arabs of Pales~me. As they view thesituation, they see a country obh.ter.ated and a peopleuprooted and dispossessed, a majority of w?om havebeen subjected to conditions which have deprived themof their means of livelihood and left them dependentfor fourteen years on international c~a~ity. The physicalprivation the refugees have suffered IS Illustrated by.thefact that the per capita assistance they have receivedhas averaged less than $30 a year for each refugee.Perhaps even worse has been the psychological damageinflicted on them by their prolonged dep~nden~e o.ncharity. As one would expect, such an expenenc~ mevi­tably has had a corroding effect on the personality, theoutlook and the self-respect of the individuals il1volv~d.Looked at from any standpoint, the lot of the P.alestmerefugees during the past fourteen years constitutes atragic page in human history.

6 In 1962, as in previous years, the Palestine refu­gee~ have continued to demand the implementation, as

et unrealized of the provisions of paragraph 11 ofteneral Ass~bly resolution 194 (Ill) of December1948, which states:

"The General Assembly . . ."Resolves that the refugees v.:ishing. to r~turn to

their homes and live in peace WIth th~lr nelgh?<>ursshould be permitted to do so at the earliest practicabledate and that compensation should be paid for theproperty of those choosing not to return and for lossof or damage to property which, under principles ofinternational law or in equity, should be made goodby the Governments or authorities responsible;

"Instructs the Conciliation Commission to facili­tate the repatriation, resettlement and economic andsocial rehabilitation of the refugees and the paym~nt

of compensation, and to maintain close relations withthe Director of the United Nations Relief for Pales­tine Refugees and, through him, with the appropriateorgans and agencies of the United Nations."

7. Turning to the second of the factors previouslynoted, to understand the consequences of the unemploy­able status of refugees and particularly youth who lac~skills one needs to understand the nature and compost­tion of the refugee population and the changes whichare taking place through time. In 1948, the Arab popu­lation of Palestine was about 70 per cent rural and 30per cent urban. Among the refugees a high percentageof the urban workers (approximately two-thirds) pos­sessed skills needed in the Arab countries and, there­fore, were able to find employment after their displace­ment. These and their dependants, in total about 20 percent of those who were displaced, have never becomedependent on UNRWA or other charity. The remain­der, composed mostly of farmers and some small busi­nessmen and unskilled workers, did become dependenton UNRWA (together with the sick and the old)because they found no opportunity for employment.

8. Currently, of the total refugee population servedby UNRWA, about half are adults and half children,if one uses the age of seventeen as the point of differ­entiation. With respect to the future, for each year thatthe Palestine problem continues unresolved, anotherforty thousand babies will be born to refugee parentsand about thirty thousand individuals will attain adult­hood within the refugee community.

9. Traditionally in the Middle East, as in much of theworl~, the ~ncoming generation has acquired its skills byworking WIth the parent or some other adult Iamilvmember. Alon~ with this experience comes the develop­ment of self-discipline and the acquiring of work habitsand basic skills which anyone must possess to be produc­tive and employable. The tragedy of the young refugeeadults is that most of their parents have not beenworking, and therefore it has not been possible forthem to acquire their parents' skills. Even worse. a highpercentage have not learned the habits and self-dis­~ipline which are a prerequisite to working. The resultIS that these y~ung persons are not just unemployed,but many are VIrtually unemployable as well. Further­more, the task of rehabilitating a young man of twentyor twe~ty-five years of a.ge thus handicapped is farmore difficult an~ expensive than that of training alad of fifteen or sixteen years. Moreover, when a choicebetween them has to be made, because funds for train­mg both types of persons are not available, the decision

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10. Therefore it would seem that a high percenta eof ~he young refugees who have grown to adulth ~dunng the past fourteen years are destined to be hOd'capped for li Ie, even. when they have placed before~e~what to. persons \VI t~. normal backgrounds would bechallenging opportunities. In this connexion it shouldhe remembered that, today, only two out of every fiadults dependent on UNRWA were adults in Palestin

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the remaining three-fifths having attained adulthood:~refugees. By and large the generation of refugees nowmaturing will never ?e able to compete successfully forwork as farmers against the competition of native ruralsons who have had the advantage of working withtheirfarmer fathers as they grew up, and particularly soinview of the fact that throughout the Middle East asindeed throughout the world, the number of far~ersrelative to the total population is rapidly decreasing,Thus, the unemployable status of young refugee adultshas been and is a major factor contributing to theplightof the Palestine refugees.

11. Finally, if for the sake of analysis, the politicalaspects of the Palestine problem and the lack of suitableskills on the part of the maturing refugee youth areputaside and if one looks specifically to the capacity of thehost countries to absorb the refugee population, in addi­tion to providing for their own rapidly growing nativepopulation, one cannot but be struck by the limitationsof this capacity. In previous annual reports the head ofthe Agency has stated his considered judgement that amajor proportion of the refugees must cross an inter­national boundary if they are to find suitable employ­ment without resort on the part of host countries touneconomic investment of considerable magnitude.Events of the past year have merely served to strengthenthis conclusion.

12. The frustrated attempts of UNRWA during itsinitial vears in sponsoring work projects to settle refu­gees and the virtually fruitless outcome of past broaderefforts, under other auspices, to negotiate a settlement ofthe Palestine problem, strongly suggest that theseunder­takings have failed because they have been unacceptableto the people (refugee and non-refugee) indigenousto the region and to the Governments which r~p:esentthem. It is the considered opinion of the COllu111SSlOner­General that these feelings of the Arab people runas deep today as at any time in the past, and there­fore that. at least for as long as there is no substantialprogress towards the implementation of paragraph ~of General Assembly resolution 194 .(IlI), U:NRWshould not again attempt works projects designed tosett le the ref ugees. From this experience one shouldnot conclude that economic development is ~~t wantedIn' the people of the region. On the contrary, It IS wante1and at an accelerated rate but not in the context 0

refugee resettlement.13. "t\o doubt in the future, as in the past, so~ne

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THE AGENCY'S THREE-YEAR PROGRAMME

14. Since the beginning of its three-year mandate on1 July 1960, the Agency has concentrated on assistanceto young refugees for the purpose of giving as manyof them as possible the training which will enable themto put to useful purpose the talents with which theyhave been richly endowed. The Agency considers thisparticular programme not only vital for these youngpeople, but important as a contribution to regionaltechnical and economic progress. To this end, theAgency has held relief assistance (in food, shelter,welfare and health care) to the low per capita level of1960 and concentrated all available resources on theexpansion and improvement of its education pro­gramme. It has also continued to make some smallgrants and loans to assist qualified refugees who havesought to become self-employed, but the Agency hasnot undertaken any specific development projects.

15. UNRWA has striven to keep in harmony withthe general educational trends in the host countries byproviding facilities for an ever-increasing enrolment,by recruiting and training better qualified teachers, andby extending by one year the period of schooling at thepreparatory level. Even more fundamental has been theAgency's accelerated effort in the fields of vocationaland teacher training, where it has expanded its fourolder institutions and now has, either completed orunder preparation seven new training centres, onebeyond the number originally contemplated. This lasttraining centre is strategically important to the totalvocational programme of the Agency in that it willprovide training for vocational instructors and indus­trial foremen, and thus help to improve the quality ofthe teaching and practice of industrial skills generally.The total number of places available in the Agency'seleven training centres and in the courses subsidized bythe Agency in other non-UNRWA training institutionswill be 4,400 in 1963 and the number of graduates willin due course reach 2,200 a year.

16. Another phase of the Agency's education expan­sion and improvement programme is that of increasingthe number of university scholarships to be awardedfrom the 1960 level of 350 to a new level of 500 peryear. In effect, this enables UNRWA to assist about125 beginner students per year in Middle East uni­versities, in contrast to the 90 scholarships for theacademic year 1959-1960. Largely by virtue of thestudents' own choice, there has been heavy concentra­ban of these university students in the fields of engin­eering, medicine and the sciences.

17. The Commissioner-General is pleased to reportthat the programme for educational improvement andexpansion is moving forward on schedule, both in itsentirety and in its respective components, and that inSome respects it is even ahead of schedule. By 30 June1963 the total three-year programme to assist youngrefugee adults, as originally envisioned, will have beenImplemented and in addition the extra unit, alreadyn<?ted, for teaching vocational instructors and foremenWIll be ready for operation.

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RELATIONS WITH HOST GOVERNMENTS AND UNITEDNATIONS ORGANIZATIONS AND NON-GOVERNMENTALORGANIZATIONS

18. The Commissioner-General is pleased to reportthat relations between UNRWA and the host Govern­ments have continued on the whole to be good. As inthe past, the host Governments themselves have donemuch to help the refugees in terms of rendering directassistance in health, education, welfare, administrationand related services, and in providing the essentialland, water and security protection. The direct financialburden of the host countries for these services duringthe past year has been in excess of $5.6 million. For theperiod from 1948 to the present the Arab countries andArab voluntary organizations report a total expenditurein excess of $55 million in assistance to the refugees,of which more than $8 million has been provided toUNRWA and its predecessor, the United NationsRelief for Palestine Refugees, in the form of cash andservices.

19. The cordial working relations between UNRWAand other United Nations bodies operating in the MiddleEast have continued over the past year. Particularlyvaluable has been the close co-operation with the UnitedNations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza­tion and the World Health Organization, both of whichhave seconded skilled personnel to the Agency andrecently a similar arrangement has been started withthe International Labour Organisation. Also, UNRWAhas maintained its co-operative relations with the UnitedNations Emergency Force, the United Nations TruceSupervision Organization, and the United NationsChildren's Fund. In addition, it has sought to facilitatethe work of the Conciliation Commission for Palestineand stands ready to co-operate appropriately as pro­vided for in paragraph 20 of General Assembly resolu­tion 302 (IV).

20. During the past year, as in previous years, thevoluntary agencies that function in the Middle Easthave administered effectively to the needs of the refu­gees, particularly in respect of clothing gifts and serv­ices related to health, education and welfare. Theseservices, which are supplementary to the relief aid ofDNRWA, have been invaluable in terms of adding tothe well-being of the refugees and other claimants forrelief. In total these agencies, as a group, report expen­diture in excess of $17 million in direct aid to refugeesand other claimants since 1948.

FINANCES

21. For technical reasons related to budget and finan­cial control, the Commissioner-General in his annualreports has consistently projected the Agency's three­year programme, concerning the present mandate per­iod, in terms of budgets based on UNRWA's fiscalyear (calendar year), even though the mandate perioditself extends from 1 July 1960 to 30 June 1963. In thediscussion that follows occasional reference will bemade to the period beyond 30 June 1963. This is donenot to argue either for or against an extension, butin the interest of clarity and particularly to indicatethe implications of the 1963 budget for the futureshould the mandate of UNRWA be extended. Shouldthe General Assembly desire to deliberate in terms ofa budget covering only the period from 1 January to30 June 1963, this can be done, for general purposes,by dividing in two each item in the fiscal year budgetherewith submitted.

22. Throughout the period of its current three-yearplan the Agency seems destined to face a criti~al finan­cial situation by reason of the fact that Its needsfor education. and training are constantly increas!ng,whereas its regular income from gov~rnment contn~t:­tions and other sources is almost stationary. To facili­tate analysis and comparisons the fo~lowing table p~e­sents in summary form the Agency s actual financialoperating statement for 1961 and its estimated oper­ating budgets for 1962 and 1963 (see part II of thereport for details of the 1963 budget) as well as totalscovering the three years as a whole:

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commitments}78.8.Relief services ......... 26.2 26.3 26.3

Elementary and24.7secondary education .. 7.6 8.0 9.1

Vocational and uni-versity education .... 5.0 2.9 3.4 11.3

Individual assistance ... 0.2 0.2 0.4

TOTAL 39.0 37.4 38.8" 115.2"

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Regular government100.7pledges ........... 33.5 33.6 33.6 b

Other regular income.. 1.5 0.9 0.9 3.3

35.0 34.5 34.5 104.0Special income

World Refugee Year andrelated income ....... 4.1' 0.2 4.3

Vocational trainingcentre and teacher-training centretraining scholarshipsand related income ... 1.5 1.2 2.7

TOTAL 39.1 36.2 35.7 111.0

Excess of expenditure overincome .... , , .. , .. , , . , (0.1) 1.2 3.1 4.2

• Excluding operational reserve of $0,8 million in the budgetfor 1963.Pt b For presentation Government pledges are assumed at samelevel as for 1962.fl' CO $2.4 million of this was actually received in 1960 but was notused until 1961.

23. As the table indicates, during this three-yearperiod the Agency expects to expend about $11 millionin excess of its anticipated receipts from regular incomesources. The necessity of spending beyond currentreceipts from regular contributions in order to meetthe urgent need to expand and improve educational andtraining programmes was, of course, explained at eachof the last two sessions of the General Assembly bythe Commissioner-General, and 110 objections were reg­istered. The Commissioner-General also announced inthe fifteenth session that he would undertake to raiseat least $4 million from extra-budgetary sources and,after $4.5 million had actually been received, stated atthe sixteenth session that he would undertake to raisea further $2 million from extra-budgetary sourcesbefore 30 June 1963. To date, about $5.5 million hasbeen raised from extra-budgetary sources, most of itby taking advantage of the World Refugee Year andfrom donations for scholarships, and it is now theexpectation of the Commissioner-General that he willbe able to raise an additional $1.5 million before 30

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June 1963. This means that the Agency is now commit­ting itself to raise a total of $7 million from extra­budgetary sources during the three-year mandate periodinstead of the $6.5 million set forth in last year's annualreport. Parenthetically it should be noted that thisamount equals substantially the total cost of the con­struction and operation of the expanded vocational andteacher training programme throughout the three-yearmandate period, and that without this income suchexpansion would have been impossible. However, evenif the goal of $7 million is attained in full, the Agencywill still have spent by the end of 1963 approximately$4 million in excess of anticipated total receipts fromall sources during the three-year mandate period. Thisdeficit the Agency is having to cover by drawing downits limited working capital reserve. This course of actionwill have brought the working capital reserve to acritically low level by the end of 1963, which meansthat a policy of spending in excess of annual receiptscould not be followed for long, if at all, beyond thatdate.

24. The Commissioner-General considers it unlikelythat following 30 June 1963 he would be able to obtainfunds for UNRWA from non-governmental organiza­tions on the same scale as he has done in the pastbecause the large donations received as a result of theWorld Refugee Year were of a one-time nature and norepetition of that effort is contemplated. This, then,means that UNRWA must look almost entirely toGovernments for funds, it its mandate is extended.

25. For the Agency's 1963 fiscal year the Commis­sioner-General proposes to hold relief expenditures atthe same aggregate level as for 1962, Le. $26.3 million.While this will entail a tight relief policy, the Agencybelieves it can be carried out without resort to anyreduction in the per capita level of services to needyrefugees or change in the basic definition of a refugee.In the short run, at least, the Commissioner-Generalforesees little opportunity of significantly reducing therelief costs of UNRWA. Naturally, if substantial pro­gress is made toward an over-all solution to the refugeeproblem, that would certainly open the way for a reduc­tion in relief costs. The only relief items which run inexcess of $1 million per year are food and health serv­ices. Looking first at food, which is by far the largestitem, any savings made during the next year, at least,by eliminating the dead and false registrants from therolls will be offset by adding to the rolls names from thewaiting lists of eligible children who currently aredenied rations owing to the ceilings which the Agencyhas had to impose 011 a country-by-country basis inorder to keep expenditure on rations under control.

26. To attempt to cut health expenditures (includ­ing preventive and curative services, supplementaryfeeding and environmental sanitation), which currentlyare at the minimum rate of about 10 U.S. cents perperson per day, in the absence of progress towards asolution to the refugee problem, would run the ser}ollsrisk of increased morbidity and mortality, espeCIallyamong vulnerable groups such as children and pregnantand lactating women. Curative medical services, thelargest component in the health budget, must continueto be given high priority, both on merit and because ofthe importance which public opinion today attaches tothe treatment of the sick. Any cutback in preventiveservices would not only affect adversely the progr~mn~e

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This would represent an increase over 1962 of $3million in regular contributions from Governments, ora relative increase of about 9 per cent.

30. Parenthetically, the Commissioner-General pointsout that, in considering this critically important ques­tion of UNJnVA's budget needs, Governments shouldnote all inherent difference in the nature of .expendl­tures for relief and for education. Whereas Significantprogress towards a solution to the Palestine. refugeeproblem should have the effect of correspondmgl~ re­ducinz the relief needs of refugees, the educatIOnalneedsb of these people would, even in those. circum­stances, still continue to exist. Therefore, a sattsfa.ctorysolution to the problem would merely mean an ultimateshi it of the burden of education to the Gover~l11ents ofthe countries in which the refugees then reside. ratl;erthan any reduction in such costs. Moreover, 111 .11l~ewith the general educational trends of the region, It IS

possibility of an epidemic, something which has hithertobeen avoided,

27. For education, including training, the A encpr<?p~ses !o expend a total of $12.5 million in 1961WIth!n this t~t~l, sufficient priority will be given to th~vocational t~am111g and ~eacher-training centres to keepthel.n operatmg at capacity. Actually, for the six-monthperiod 1 Janu~ry to 30 June 1963 most of the fundsneede? for this PU1'pOS~ are expected to come fromd.onatlOtlS fa; schol~~sll1ps and other special contribu­tions 110W being solicited, but for the latter half of theyear (assuming the Agency's mandate is extended)UNRW A will have to look to Governments for th~support of this function.

~8.. From the facts just s!ated it is apparent that the?,atn Impac! of any substantial shortfall in the Agency's":come c,Iunng 1963 is bound to fall on general educa­tion, which would have to be cut back in order to offsetat least the. gre.ater "part of the deficit. Should govern­me~lt contributions 111 1963 be substantially the sameas 111 1962, then a shortfall of $3.1 million will occurwhich will force the Agency to cut general educationby as n111~h as one-third. To do this the Agency would,of necessrty, have to cut deepest into education at thepreparatory and secondary levels. This, in turn, woulddry up the source of candidates for vocational andteacher training for years beyond 1963, with the resultthat the Agency's whole programme to help youngrefugee adults would founder. Such a developmentwould spell tragedy to the individuals to whom educa­tion was denied and would make still more difficult thewhole refugee problem.

29. Therefore, in the opinion of the Commissioner­General, it is imperative that the full budget ofUNR\i\lA be covered for 1963. To do this will requirecontrihutions of nearly $37 million from Governments,as shown by the following table (see part II of thereport for details).

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CONCLUSION

33, UNRWA now performs the dual function oiadministcring relief to Palestine refugees, in the inrmof food, health, welfare and shelter ~ssistance. and ofproviding education for refugee .chlldren a,ml youngadults, including general educatIOn, v(!cattonal .andteacher training and university scholarships. H5 (hl'('r~responsibility is to minister to the presslllg .n(,l~lb IIIrefugees and its by-product role, so to sp,eak, IS tr! con­tribute to the stability of the 11iddle East. It ,IS notUNRWA's responsibility, as delineated by t~le (.TeneralAssembly, to solve the Palestine problem i,n :ts hronrleraspects, and, in the opinion of the COmI11ISSloner-G~'n­eral, experience has indicated that, at least pe,nlll1lgprogress to:vards a general solution, U.NRW1\ ,IS. notan appropnate agency to attempt works prOjEcts .toprovide rehabilitation. Currently, lTN\{v\~A !ar~sa.c:ll~ical financial problem because Its educatlOn,ll costs. ,l!l

increasing whereas its regular income has rcmaiuc-!

stationary.34. Durina the present mandate period th;- Agel:cy

has struggled to meet this problem by holding I'l'lwf

logical to expect that, in the future educational costsfor refugees (or former refugees) 'will gradually in~cr~ase rather than decline as a higher percentage ofchildren go to school and as they remain in school formore years.

31. The Commissioner-General therefore appeals toMember Governments to contemplate the tragic conse­quences th.at would foll.ow any policy that would fo;cea cutb~ck 111 the edu~attonal opportunities provided forPalestme refugee. children. The countries where theserefuge;s now reside are themselves confronted with anexplos~on of demand for educational facilities on behalfof their own .native populati~n, and already their re­sO~lrces are being severely strained as they strive to meet!hlS. deman~. In t~ese circum~tances tl~ey have foundIt vIrtual~y impossible to provide sufficient educationalopportunity for refugee children, and it is for this~'eason that UNRWA has found it necessary to engage111 and support education for the refugee children. Ac­tually, UNRWA has assumed this role with consider­able reluctance and it is only recently that the educa­tional opportunities provided for refugee children haveeven approached those provided for non-refugees inthe same countries. If, therefore, UNRWA were com­pelled in 1963 to cut back drastically and suddenlv itseducational function, this would mean retrogression illterms of educational opportunities and would furthercomplicate the refugee problem.

32. Already a few Governments, recognizing thecritical financial needs of UNRWA, are supplementingtheir regular contributions by grants from their techni­cal assistance funds in support of vocational training.These Governments have done so only after sell(!il\~

their own teams, of experts to the Middle Ea~,t ill 1'1"

sponse to UN'R\i\TA's invitation to survev the .\~~(,Ill·v\

operations and needs. In extending such an invitationthe agency requested that assistance be given only if. illthe judgement of the survey experts, UNRWA's pro­gramme merited support in competition with othertechnical assistance projects already before the respl...·­tive Governments. The Commissioner-General nowurges any other Governments which have availablefunds for technical assistance to consider taking similaraction.

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2.9

36.7

0.8

0.91.2

(In millions of U.S. dollars)

Total budget (including operationalreserve of $0.8 million) ,

DeductMiscellaneous regular income .....Special eont r ibutions expected ., ..From working capital (in the event

the operational reserve is requiredto be used ) ..

Balance required 10 be contributedby Governruents .

costs to the low level of 1960; by raising funds fromextra-budgetary sources for the construction and opera­tion of the expanded vocational and teacher-trainingcentres; and by drawing down its operating reserves bysome $4 million to cover the expanding needs and costsof basic education. Only by resorting to these extraor­dinary measures has the Agency been able to carryforward its three-year programme to assist refugeechildren and young adults in preparing for useful lives.For reasons already explained, these extraordinarymeasures cannot be relied upon in the future as a meansof supplementing the Agency's income.

35. With respect to the mandate of UNRWA, whichexpires as of 30 June 1963, it is the considered judge­ment of the Commissioner-General that both the reliefand educational functions now performed by theAgency must be continued well beyond 30 June 1963if deserving refugees are not to suffer physically or be

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denied much-needed educational opportunities and ifreasonable stability is to exist in the region. Whetherthe General Assembly considers that these services canbest be rendered by an extension of the Agency's man­date or by some other means, any significant cutback inthe magnitude of these services must, of necessity, berelated to progress towards a general solution of therefugee problem.

36. The Commissioner-General takes this oppor­tunity to convey to the Member Governments whichare represented in the General Assembly, and particu­larly those which have consistently contributed to theAgency's budget, his sincere appreciation for the sup­port and co-operation which they have accorded. Healso takes this opportunity to appeal to Member Stateswho so far have not contributed to reconsider theirposition and accept a share of responsibility towardsthe Palestine refugees.

Part I

REPORT ON UNRWA OPERATIONS, 1 JULY 1961-30 JUNE 1962

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A. The provision of relief

37. ~here. has b~en n.o essential change in theAgency s relief services smce 1950. The basic rationhas remained virtually the same, and the supplemen­tary feeding programme has assisted the same propor­tion of the refugees during the past seven years. TheAgency's programme of operations, during its three­year mandate to 30 June 1963, as renewed in 1959,2 haspresupposed the maintenance of existing per capitalevels of relief services, with increases in total expendi­ture to cover only such factors as the natural increasein the refugee population.

BASIC RATIONS

38. Almost 40 per cent of the Agency's relief budget(of approximately $25.3 million a year) is devoted tothe primary task of the supply and distribution of basicfood commodities. During 1961-1962 the Agency im­ported some 111,000 tons of flour and 29,000 tons ofother foodstuffs. The basic ration consists of flour,pulses, sugar, rice, and oils and fats. It provides 1,500calories per day in summer and 1,600 in winter, and atotal vegetable protein content of approximately 42 and44 grammes respectively. This meagre and unvaryingbasic ration provides only a bare minimum of subsist­ence. Continued over a long period of years such a dietbecomes scarcely tolerable unless it is supplemented orvaried in some way. No fresh food items are suppliedhut refugees usually manage to supplement their ra­tions with a little meat, fruit, vegetables, eggs, etc.,either grown by themselves or bartered for part of theirdry rations, or bought with their limited earnings.

NUMBERS, ELIGIBILITY AND REGISTRATION

39. During the past twelve months, the number ofrefugees registered with the Agency increased by about24,000 to a total on 30 June 1962 of 1,174,760, of whom877,888 were registered for full UNRWA assistance,including basic rations, and 296,872 were registered forvarious degrees of assistance but no basic rations. Table1 of the annex contains the Agency's basic registrationstatistics for the entire period of June 1950 to June1962. It may be observed that, while the. Agency i~­herited ration rolls with some 960,000 ration benefici­aries in June 1950, by June 1962 the correspondingfigure was 877,888. Table 2 indicates the distribution ofrefugees by country of residence, category of registra­tion and age groups on 30 June 1962.

40. During 1961-1962 the following changes of en­titlement were effected: 34189 were removed from therolls because of death, false and duplicate registration,self-support, absence, etc.; 48,545 were a?ded to or re­instated on the rolls, including 42,470 chtldre? No~ allthe changes in registration involved changes 111 entitle-

2 General Assembly resolution 1456 (XIV) of 9 December1959.

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me~t to ratio~s ~nd the net increase in the number ofration benefiCIarIes as compared with 1960-1961 was7,622. Table 3 of.the annex gives a comprehensive pic­ture. ?f cha~ges m the composition and entitlement offamilies regIstered for rations during the twelve-yearperiod of July. 1950 to June 1962. Table 4 gives infor­mation regarding the total registered population.

41. Since the beginning of its operations in May1~50, the Agency has recognized that its rolls have con­ta~n.ed large inaccuracies with regard both to those in­el!g;ble for assistance who receive it 'and those who areehglbl~ but why do not receive assistance. Many ofthese macc~racles existed when the Agency took overthe rolls of ItS predecessororganization the United Na­tions Relief for Palestine Refugees. The Agency hasreported to the Assembly on many occasions, notably in1950-1951, at the very outset of the refugee problemand in 1954, 19~5, 1959~ 1960and 1%1, on the progres~made through ItS routine processes in rectifying theration rolls." Since 1950 these routine processeshavere­sulted in the removal of more than 425,000 names fromthe Agency's ration rolls, as indicated in table 3 of theAnnex.

42. As the Agency has pointed out on a number ofoccasions, with regard to this sensitive and complicatedproblem, the possibility of achieving substantial resultsin rectifying the rolls and placing relief on the basis ofestablished individual need rather than on the basis ofan assumption that anyone who has the status of a reg­istered refugee is thereby both eligible for and in needof relief, dependson the co-operation of the refugees aswell as of the host Governments. In resolution 1456(XIV) of 9 December 1959, the General Assemblycalled upon the host Governments to co-operate moreclosely with the Agency in the rectification of the rolls.In 1960 the Agencyreported some progress in this en­deavour. During 1961 efforts were concentrated oneliminating the names of non-existent persons from therolls, while at the same time issuing rations to childrenwho had been registered for services but were not re­ceiving them so far.

43. The Agency's current policy is to hold reliefservices at the current per capita level and at the ag­gregate expenditure level of 1962; and to concentrate,in accordancewith resolution 1456 (XIV), on the three­year programme for expanding vocational training.UNRWA field directors, working within th~ fran~e­work of this general policy and in co-operatIOn WIth

a See 0 Dicial Recordsof the Genera.l Assembly! Fittl! Sess,i0ll.S,lpplemmt No. 19 (A/1451/Rev.l). paras. 13- 9; tu«, S,'x:21

Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/1905), llaras. 15-24; Ibl .:Ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/2717), paras. 10-12,ibid Tenth Session Supplement No. 15 (A/2978), paras. 8-1~,and" S,lpplement N~. 15A (A/2978/Add.l); ibid., FOllrtcent ~Session Supplement No. 14 (Aj4213), paras. 16-18 and 29-33,ibid., Fifteenth Session, Supplelllel'! No.}4 (A/4478). para:t.;51-52 and ibid., Sixtemth Session, .supplement No.(A/4861), paras. 38-42.

the host Governments, are striving to remove false andduplicated registrati?n~ and the names of the dea,d, ~n~for each name so eliminated the name of a need) eligi­ble refugee (usually that of a child) is being added.The problem of removing the names of. those who havesufficient income to support themselves IS more c?mplexand only limited progress has been made up to this tune.

44. During 1961-1962, the Agency's efforts to rectifythe rolls in Jordan and Syria we.re sOl~lewhat :le~ayedowine to political developments, involving administra­tive ~hallges in the mi.nistries concerned with refugeeaffairs in those countnes. In Jordan, where some. halfof the refugees are living and the problem of r.ectlfica­tion is largest num.erica!!y, there. has be~n some lI:creasein the rate of rectification, despite continued resistancebrought about by suspicion of UNRWA's motives onthe part of the refugees. During the period since thecurrent efforts were started in October 1960, some20,000 rations, representing dead, false and d,;,plicateregistrations and absentees were cancelled, with thesimultaneous issue of rations to eligible refugee childrenwho before were receiving only services.

45. In Lebanon the Government, with assistancefrom UNRWA, carried out during the year underreview a complete census of the refugee population.dealing first with those living outside the Agency'scamps and later with those living in camps. Althoughthe problem of rectification of the rolls is numericallymuch smaller than in Jordan, the success of this specialoperation, together with the Agency's routine eligibilityprocedures, is producing significant results. While thecomplete data will be available only at the end of 1962,thus far some 3,200 rations have been cancelled, 1,500of which were due to the census operation. In the GazaStrip, joint action by the Government and the Agencyto verify the existence of elderly refugees and thepresence of refugees believed to be absent from theStrip has eliminated some 3,500 names from the rollsand allowed an approximately equivalent number ofchildren on the waiting list to be inscribed. No specialprogress was made in Syria.

46. As noted above, on an over-all basis, the totaldeletion of ineligibles, including persons who had be­come self-supporting, has resulted in the removal of34,189 names from the ration rol1s in 1961-1962, ascompared with 20,694 during 1960-1961.

47. It should be noted that in the past year the Agencyhas continued to be under pressure to provide assistanceto the so-called "economic refugees" and to similar"other claimants for relief" (estimated at 317,000) whofail on technical grounds to satisfy the Agency's presentrelief criteria. Virtually the only assistance these peoplehave received has been the services given to them in thefields of relief and education by the host Governmentsand voluntary agencies and, in particular, the distribu­tion of United States surpius foodstuffs to them throughthe host Governments and voluntary agencies. Therear~, moreover, tens of thousands 0 [ eligible refugeechlld~'e~ wl~o are no~ d~med relief as a result oi budget­ary limitations, which m turn necessitate a ceiling onthe number of rations distributed in each countrv.Budgetary considerations have also necessitated a vervstrict limit~ti?non providing assistance to refugees who,though originally self-supporting, have now becomedestitute, owing to age, sickness or lack of work.

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'"CAMPS ANn SHELTER

48. The steady increase in the population' thAgency's fifty-seven official camps noted in 111 e[

" 91) " annuareports s1l1ce. 1 .9, has ccntinued.s The numbe frefugees living in UNRWA camps by 30 June 196{w~s456,~OO, or abou.t 40 per cent of the total. The onlysub.stantial change 111 the numbers was due to the natr I. . h f I . Iramcrease 111 t e re ugee popu anon,

49. The fact that some 60 per cent of the refugeesdnot live in UNRWA. official camps does not imply that,a~a groul?, these particular refugees. are. self-supporting.The pnmary reason they do not live 111 the UNRWAcamps is that they were not brought into them immedi­ately after their displacement from Palestine and thatthey found such shelter as was available in other places.If some had small reserves, long since exhausted, theyoften may have preferred to rent a room or accept thehospitality of friends or relatives rather than face therigours of the primitive and overcrowded refugee campsin the earlier years. These people have been dependenton rations and other Agency services from the begin­ning. and the constant pressure for admissions intoAgency official camps which, for physical and financialreasons cannot he met, speaks for itself. Nor in generalis there any evident distinction in regard to well-beingor employment opportunities between those who dolive in Agency camps and those who do not.

50. The :\genc)' continued to maintain 57campsdur­ing 1961-1962, as noted above, with 25 in Jordan, 16 inLebanon, and 8 each in the Gaza Strip and the SyrianArab Republic. In Lebanon, land was obtained for theextension of one camp, which has long been needed,and plans for construction are in progress. Because ofthe need of assurances that refugees will not reoccupyvacated areas, construction of a new camp to housetherefugees living in deplorable conditions in the old Jew­ish quarter of Jerusalem has not begun. In the GazaStrip, construction to reduce overcrowding in two campshas continued.

51. The amount of construction during the year hascontinued to decrease, and over the three-year period of1959-1962, it may be observed, construction costs, in­cluding maintenance and road works, have a~eraged$550.000, as compared with an average expenditure cl$625,000 for 1958. The decrease has occurred, despitethe increase in the population of the camps, largelybe­cause the tent replacement programme was completedat the beginning of 1960.

52. In general most older camps are becoming se~i.ouslv crowded due to the establishment of new familyunits at time 0 f marriage and the tendency of squattersto crowd into ancI around camps-partlcularly thoselocated near larger villages ancI cities.

CLOTHING

53. During the second year of the new clothing ~ro·. . " .' and duphca'gramme, designed to mmmnze omlsslon~ 7 kilo-

tions under which each refugee received 1.. , . . f $50 000 wasgrammes of clothing a further saving 0 , .[

achieved in the tran;portation of clothing made aY~l­able b" voluntary acencies, Used shoes and other arftlc es

.. h li . t d romfor which there was no demand were e unina e

4 A/4213, paras. 20-21; :\/4478, paras. 68-70; and A/4861,paras, 43-46.

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the issues of clothing and refugees suffering specialhardship are being given shoes made by refugee shoe­makers, the cost being met from savings on the overseasfreight of clothing. The voluntary agencies, moreover,have been most helpful in obtaining from contributorsbetter quality clothing, more suitable items, and a largerproportion of men's garments. While this programmehas thus been much improved, particularly in regard toquality, there still is need for more clothing of certaintypes and UNRWA is working with the contributingagencies to this end. In Syria the distribution of clothingwhich had been interrupted in 1959, but resumed in1960, was restricted to refugees suffering special hard­ship.

SOCIAL WELFARE

54. Over the years, the Agency's social welfare serv­ices have been primarily concerned with helping refu­gees suffering special hardship. The Agency has alsoencouraged a revival of effort and self-help on a com­munity basis through co-operatives, sewing and carpen­try centres and youth activities centres. The field we1f~re

staff have acted both as case workers and communitydevelopment advisers. The primary welfare programmesare outlined below.

Youth activities programme

55. During the past two years the Agency has helpedto promote youth activi.ties in o~der t? ~ive young peo­ple something constructive to do III their Idle hours. Nowalmost 800 younger men have benefited from coursesin the Leadership Training Centre at Br01~mana,

Lebanon established in 1960 with the co-operation ofthe World Alliance of YMCA's. Much of the cost ofthis effort has been borne by the YMCA Alliance andother donors. While originally these courses we.re con­ducted entirely at Broumana they are now being de­centralized. For example, in 1961, two-week sportstraining camps were. conducted in Jordan, ~~banon andthe Gaza Strip and III 1962 one-mont~ training courseswere held in Jordan and the Gaza Stnp! at reduced costdespite an increase in the number of trainees. More than400 trained and active volunteer leaders help to super­vise 5 300 centre members, and there are 176 committeesrespo~sible for various activities, and 740 team~ .a?-dinterest groups. There are now 38 youth activitiescentres as compared with 26 in April, 1960, and thosewith adequate facilities have grown from 6 to 24.Twenty-one of these centres are under the direction ofvolunteer leaders.

56. The programme has proved increasingly effectivein combating idleness, lethargy and low m~rale amo?grefugee youth. In Jordan particularly, se:vlce c01?mlt­tees have fostered a programme of practical service tofellow refugees, including, door-to-d~or surveys ofhandicapped refugees, tree planting, laying out of sm?-llgardens, clearing drainage faeili~ies aft~r heavy: ~~ll1,registering people for emergency Illocu:atl~ns, SOI~cltlllg

funds for camp road improvement, delivering mall, andvisiting the old and sick. In the summer of 1962 theyouth of twelve centres will carry out summer recre­ation programmes for m.ore tha.n 1,000 lounger boy.s.There has also been a noticeable Increase In membershipinitiative in improving centre facilities.

Adult training courses

57. From the very beginning of its ~ork in 1950, theAgency has maintained, at .comparatlvely small cost,short training courses in sewing for young women and

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in woodwork for young men which, although not suffi­cient to achieve self-support, train the women to sewclothes for themselves and their families and take ordersfor their neighbours, and the men to do odd jobs in thecamps or the nearest town, or to get work as carpenterapprentices. Most applicants for woodwork trainingwere those who lacked the qualifications for admissionto the Agency's vocational training centres.

58. In response to popular demand, the number ofcourses has increased from year to year. During 1961­1962 the number of sewing centres grew to 37, and thefirst carpentry centre outside the Gaza Strip was openedat Kararneh, Jordan. The sewing centres conduct a six­month course and accommodate 30 trainees, and thewoodwork centres accommodate 20 trainees for a one­year course. During the year, 1,748 women completedthe sewing courses, and 101 Gaza refugees completedthe course in woodwork. In almost all these centresthere isa long waiting list for future courses. In theGaza Strip, it may be noted, the Near East ChristianCouncil has established a 'professional dressmakingcourse for 20 trainees of the sewing centres.

Refugee co-operatives

59. In 1958 the Agency first introduced the co-opera­tive concept to refugees as a concrete example of thepossibilities of community effort. Sixteen registeredco-operatives were in operation up to 1961. While twoof these failed during the year, two new co-operativeswere organized in Jordan, one in handicrafts and theother a bakery. The Agency particularly stressed theorganization of small co-operatives (which have a valueboth from the educational and the practical point ofview) in the schools and youth activities centres. Tenschool savings co-operatives and four youth centre co­operatives were organized in Jordan and one schoolcanteen each in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. A list ofcurrently operating co-operatives is contained in table 8of the annex.

Hardship cases

60. Both within and outside the Agency's campsthere are thousands of refugees who are incapable,owing to age, infirmity or some other disability, ofhelping themselves in any way. With $42,150, theAgency was able to assist 10,984 ~f the m~st n.eed'yfamilies, while some 34,000 were given special distri­butions of clothing, blankets and firewood. Agencywelfare workers assisted many other refugees throughconsultation on personal problems and helped to arrangethe reunion of families still separated fourteen yearsafter the Palestine conflict. An Agency survey is nowbeing made to determine by category and by degree ofneed the number of those suffering special hardship orprivation.

Small grants to indivMuals

61. Many refugees, who had minor trades before thePalestine conflict, have been unable to pursue themsince that time because of lack of tools or equipment.During 1961-1962, with an expenditure of $8,850, some200 refugees have been enabled to resume work andearn small sums.

Handicapped youth

62. This programme, which was inaugurated in,1958,is designed to assist blind, dumb, deaf and cnpple.drefugee youth. During the past. year funds for t~11S

purpose have been limited but, With the help of outside

donations, it proved possible to continue the training of96 refugees from previous years and to initiate thetraining of a further 29 new entrants.

63. Twenty-two of these handicapped refugees com­pleted their training during the past year, and 14 arealready at work. The cost of the average course of sixyears is $1,800. Eleven Middle East institutions haveco-operated in the programme. The most important de­velopment in this field during the past year was thegrant of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine of $60,000for the construction and equipment of a Centre for theBlind in Gaza, with provision for the first two years'operation. The Centre, which is to be opened in October1962, will provide education and vocational training for60 blind children, refugees and non-refugees, and oper­ate a home service for adult blind throughout the GazaStrip.

B. Health services

64. During 1961-1962, there was no major change inthe nature of the Agency's health services. Work wascontinued in the preventive and curative medical fields,on milk and supplementary feeding programmes, andon environmental sanitation, at a total cost of $5.5 mil­lion. Three priorities were established for 1962, i.e., (a)streamlining of medical care services; (b) studies andreview of the nutritional status of the refugees; and(c) training and professional stimulation of the healthstaff. The World Health Organization continued toassist the Agency through technical advice and thesecondment of personnel, one of whom served as theAgency's Director of Health. Implementation of thehealth programme, as in the past, was almost entirelyeffected by a staff recruited from among the Palestinerefugees.

65. The success of the health programme has beenmaterially enhanced by the generous and substantialspecial assistance of Governments, universities, volun­tary agencies, United Nations agencies (particularlyWHO), private firms and individuals. Such assistancehas taken the form of personnel, free hospital beds,services in out-patient clinics, maternal and child healthcentres, assistance in immunization campaigns, medicalsupplies, vaccines, layettes and supplementary food sup­plies. Some funds have also been provided in this man­ner for the construction of clinics and maternal andchild health centres. The programme of medical rehabili­tation through the physical training of crippled childrenis made possible only through donations received forthis specific purpose. Similarly, two voluntary societieshave made available the skills of a group of orthopedicsurgeons on a carefully planned basis which permitteddoctors to come to the area in rotation. Donations havealso helped to provide scholarships for a number ofrefugee students, particularly in basic training as nurses.

66. Throughout this period the Agency purchasedmost of its medical supplies through UNICEF on aworld tender basis. The system of decentralization ofsupplies, introduced in 1961, is now working smoothly.Direct shipment of supplies to the various fields haseliminated the need for storage at the Beirut base ware­house and made possible considerable savings to theAgency.

CURATIVE AND PREVENTIVE MEDICAL SERVICES

Clinics) hospitals and laboratories

67. The Agency now maintains 99 static healthcentres and 12 mobile clinics. These centres provide

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both curative and preventive services, including doctor'sconsultations, dressings, injections, eye treatments, dis­pensing of medicines, maternal and child health care,dental attention and health education. During 1961-1962certain improvements were achieved in the system ofmedical consultation. A standard staffing pattern hasbeen drawn up and is now being implemented. Out ofsavings already achieved in the health programme, someadditional medical and para-medical posts have beenestablished which will enable the Agency to raise theover-all quality of its services. Moreover, through theclinic construction programme, several older structureshave been replaced by better-planned and more efficientbuildings. As indicated in table 12 of the annex,refugees averaged six visits per person to the healthcentres during the year.

68. The number of hospital beds maintained by orreserved for the Agency was reduced slightly from2,080 in 1961 to 2,035 in 1962, primarily as the resultof the closure of the Agency's hospital at Salt (Jordan)and the reduction in the number of beds subsidized inthe Bhannes Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Lebanon) from150 to 100. In general the Agency has continued itsbasic policy of using local resources, where possible,SUbsidizing beds for refugees in hospitals operated byGovernments, local authorities, voluntary agencies orprivate concerns. The Agency now operates only twosmall camp hospitals, one cottage hospital and twotuberculosis sanatoria (one in conjunction with theGovernment authorities). After closure of the UNRWAhospital at Salt, redistribution of the Agency subsidizedbeds was made for the purpose of providing a wider andmore efficient allocation of facilities, taking into ac­count the needs and geographical distribution of therefugee problem. In the Syrian Arab Republic a newagreement was reached with the administration of theMouassat Hospital in Damascus under which theAgency reserves 25 beds. Currently the ratio of hos­pital beds per 1,000 persons stands at 1.88.

69. The Agency continues to rely heavily on labora­tories operated by Governments, universities and privateorganizations, depending on circumstances and the typeof examination required. The Agency operates its ownunits only where necessary and currently this includestwo small clinical laboratories in Lebanon, one in theTuberculosis Hospital in Nablus (Jordan) and a centralunit in the Gaza Strip.

Control of communicable diseases

70. There were no major epidemics during the pastyear and not a single case of any of the six '(Conven­tion" diseases-smallpox, plague, cholera, yellow fever,epidemic typhus, and louse-borne relapsing fever­among the refugee population. There was a small,verylocalized outbreak of malaria in the Jordan Valley andan increase in its incidence in the Gaza Strip, where,however, the source of infection was mostly exogenous.In the latter area also 13 cases of tetenus neonatorumoccurred. The incidence of diphtheria (19 cases) wasslightly higher than in the previous year, while that ofpoliomyelitis continued to be low in all countries, andthere was a considerable decrease in the reported num­ber of enteric group fever cases. Measles incidenceshowed a 32 per cent decrease and the number of casesof whooping cough also fell. During warm weather theprevalent diseases continued to be diarrhcea, dysenteryand infective eye conditions, such as acute conjunctivitisand trachoma.

71. The Agency has continllt~d. its active immuniza­tion programmes against th~ enter~c group fevers, small­pox whooping cough. diphtheria and tetanus. TheAg:ncy has also carried out immunization of the agegroup 4 ~n.onths-~ years in the Gaza Strip with oralpoliom}'ehtls vaccine.

Tuberculosis control

72. The Agency has continued to provide facilities[or the treatment of refugee patients suffering fromtuberculosis in hospitals and through out-patient serv­ices. In this treatment there has been very close co­operation with, the corr~~spolldil~g services of the h~stcountries, particularly 111 the Syrian Arab Republic,Jordan and Ca?a, A(~C~luatc Illecli~al supplies have beenprovided and. III ad~htlOl~. nut-patlents under trea~mentare given double ha:;~(~ ratlOl1~, ~n the recommendation ofthe supervising medical specialist,

Ma/crlln[ and child health

73, Special care far expectant moth.ers, infants, pre­school children and the school population generally hasbeen one of the major activities of the Agency's healthprogramme since 1950. Supervision, advice a~d gui~­ance are given to mothers, before and after delivery, 111

84 maternal and child health centres, Layettes are issued,supplementary rations all~horized. a1~d prophylactic im­munization schedules suitable for infants and youngchildren implemented, Since gastr~enteritisis a commoncondition among the young dun ng warm weather, aspecial regime for its treatnlcll,t has been evolved! basedon the maintenance or restoration of the body fluids andelectrolyte balance. appropriate l~ledication, and speci~1diet (at the s\lpplelm~nta.r)' feeding centre?), In, addi­tion two rehvdration units have been equIpped 111 theGaz~ Strip {or the trea~ll1t~nt ?! inf~nts and y?ungchildren suffering from this condition WIth an associatedmild or moderate dehydration, The result~ are veryencouraging ill the terms of the number of lives saved.

X It(silly scrcices

N. The Agencv di rcctlv employs a staff of 127 nur?esand 3.33 nursing lillxiliarlcs in pr,eventive and,curativeservices, in addition to the considerable nu:slpg staffemployed in clinks and hospitals suhsidized byUNR\VA, While UNR\VA nursing staff participatesin virtually even' aspect of the Agency's ,hea,lth pro­Jiramme' they have particular responsibilities m thoseactivities related to maternal and child health, hon~evisiting, school health, health education and tuberculosIscontrol.

Hcaut: cdllwt-ion

75. The programme of health education, which d~tesalmost from the inception of the Agency, u~es variousmethods and media to disseminate [nformation, fcreat~interest and stimulate a better understandmg 0 goolhealth practices, These include hea~th films, fltnnr~­graphs, health calendars, and specific sea;;ona P clgrammes on the prevention of in f ectious dlseas~s an.Ilutritional slIh]'C'cts. I n school s, health ed,t1~atlotn 'tlS

. I addition 0 I Spromoted tbrough hl'altlt COllll1l1tteeS, n, :ff _medical nursing !1ura-medica.l. and teachl11g sta

dmte~

, ' , 25 I ealth e uca IonI)crs the '\gTem'v aho CIll11IlH'S 1 I '"' '...... - t 'th t1e vanouswork"rs \\"110 lllaintalll .c1ose contac 5 WI d 'I-. . " . . l' s an VI-

l"Oll1rJ1l111ltICS and grouJlS' especla.l y 111 cam~'d f rlages. amI utilize every opportunity to sprea I cas 0

h,,:l1thier li\·ing.

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NUTRITION AND MILK AlfnFEEDING PROGl~. SUPPLEMENTARY

AM:ME76. Since the basic ration is di , ,

the prot~ction of such vUlnerab1~tetJcally1J1a~eqtlate,young children and expectant and groups as infants,paramount importance, The A enurstng n;others IS.ofIs~ue of whole milk to infants ~ ncy provides a da!lymilk to children (2-15 years) ~ged 0-1 years), skimfifth month of pregnancy t~ ~h to mothers from themonth after delivery, It also r~ ~nd of the, twelfthbalanced hot meal six da p vIdes a nutnttonally

, ys per 1 t di 11selected beneficiaries (mainl ' Wee c, 0 me ica yyears) and special diets for ~e~n the age group, 0-6infants and those suffering from edily under-nonrishsrlvitamin A and D capsules to tho arrhre~..It proVIdesmentary feeding and to children inse I recelV

tmg S\hlpplle­

Through the school milk program~ en: en .ary sc 00. s,issue of skim milk to all child e, It grves a dally

I ren up to the age of 12years,

77. In order to obtain the optimum results from thsuppleme~tary feedmg and milk programmes, certai~chang~s m, th~ procedures .for supplementary feedingand milk dlst:lbuhOn were mtroduced in the spring of1~62. T~e m~m ch~nges were: Ca) the issue of a wholemilk/skim milk mixture f~r babies aged 6-12 months,and for non-bre~st fed babies under 6 months, in placeof the whole milk prevlous.1~ issued for babies 0-12mo~tl?s; and, (b) the provl~lon, on an experimentalbaSIS m certain camp~, of a dally hot meal to all childrenaged 2-6 and to certal~ older, under-nourished children.Previously all beneficiaries over 2 years of 'age of thelatter,part of ,the programme were subject to medicalselection, but m future only those over 6 years will be.

78. Two, full-scale nutrition surveys were car;ied outby the Umted Sta~es Interdepartmental Committee onNutrition for National Defence Cone in Lebanon andone in Jordan in the spring of 1961 and 1962 respective­Iy), involving both the refugee and non-refugee popula­tion in these two countries. Senior members of theAgency's Health D~partmen~ participated in these sur­veys. The resulting information obtained has proved tobe most valuable. In general it can be stated that thenutritional status of the refugee population has beenfound to be approximate to the standard of nutrition ofthe other sections of the local population.

ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION

79. The essential environmental sanitation pro­gramme, which ~rovldes for water supply, sewag,e andrefuse disposal, mse~t contr?l measures and drainage,was implemented satisfactorily, Overcrowding a~d 11~­adequate control of h\!t c0!lstrucbon continue to, Impairenvironmental sal11tabon 111 many camps, parttcularlyin suburban areas, Although the rainfall during 1961was within the normal range,. m Jordan an emerge~cy

ter supply programme costmg $45,000 had to be 1111­

~~mented to meet wat~r shortages, especially in ca~1~snear municipalities. WIth regan] to waste disposal, It IS

t worthy and encouragll1g that more and moreno e ti d .,' . threfu ee families ar~ accep, mg;tn participating 111, econsfruction of famll~ I~trmes. fhe use of these latrmesis promoted and subSIdIzed by the Agency.

MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

80. The Agency programme o~ pro!essional trainingin the medical sciences at the uIllverslty level, through

the granting of 168 scholarships, is described elsewherein the report. During the past year a subsidy wasgranted to the School of Nursing at the Augusta Vic­toria Hospital, Jerusalem, where there are 17 studentsfollowing courses in basic nursing. For the in-servicetraining of Agency medical and para-medical staff,there are facilities for attendance at scientific assemblies,such as the annual Middle East Medical Assembly inBeirut, lectures by distinguished specialists and variouscourses for nurses and midwives. In May 1962, Agencymedical officers attended a one-day symposium in Beiruton the practical aspects of management with respect todiarrhoea and malnutrition treatments in childhood. Con­tributors to this symposium included not only seniorUNRWA staff members but the Professor of Predi­atrics of the American University of Beirut and theUNICEF Professor of Child Health at the MakerereMedical School, Kampala, Uganda. A Health Depart­ment Bulletiw has been created for circulation to thestaff. Plans are now being developed for the inclusionnext year of a training course in enviroumental sanita­tion in one of the Agency's vocational training courses.

c. Education and vocational training

81. The General Assembly has recognized that in­creased emphasis on general education and vocationaltraining, including teacher training, is indispensable forrefugee children and young adults if they are to facethe future with confidence and self-reliance; and thatthis is true regardless of where they may ultimately live.The Assembly's recent resolutions endorsed theAgency's proposals to maximize the effort to provideassistance to young refugees to enable them to developtheir innate abilities. During the past year the Agencyhas moved forward according to plan in implementingits three-year programme, particularly in the expansionof vocational training facilities. The Agency now facesthe important problem of improving the quality of gen­eral education, which lies at the base of the vocationaltrain!ng programme and which, to a large extent, de­termmes the level of knowledge and skill which traineescan attain. During the past year the Agency's educationand vocational training programme continued to havethe valuable benefit of technical guidance and leadershipfrom the United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, which made available toUNRWA twenty-one international specialists, one ofwhom serves as Director of the Educational Depart­ment.

GENERAL AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

82. The steady growth of the Agency's programmeof general education is reflected in the fact that its an­nual budget for this purpose has increased fr0111$400,000 a decade ago to nearly $7 million in 1960­1961. -:rhe refugee child today has considerably greatereducational opportunities than his parents had. In Pales­tine, under the Mandate, a little over half of the childrenof school age were receiving some form of educationand the rate of illiteracy was approximately 58 per cent.Today the Agency, with the co-operation of the hostGovernments, is offering six years of elementary educa­tion to all r~fugee children and three years of prepara­tory education to all who satisfactorily complete theireleI?entary edu~ation. It is also offering secondary edu­cation to a rapidly growing number of pupils throughgr~nt~ to Government and private schools. In addition,a limited number of the most gifted students are given

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university scholarships. One striking feature of thismovement towards a comprehensive education th b the J • '" sys emas een le m~reas111g participation of girls at allstages'

lAtn?t~er Ids thle redgul:a-r school programme of

n~anlul rayllng, edve ope S111ce 1955, covering tech­mea ( rawmg, woo work and metal work; under thist;ogr~nll11e.the~e r~l:l?W 64 ce?tres with 22,400 pupils.. le e ufftt01~al lacI ities prOVided by the Agency arec.ompara) e Wit1 t lOse.available to the national po ula-tion of the host countries. p

83. In the school ~ear 1961-1962, out of a total of196,300 refugee pupils, 137,137 pupils received theireducation in the Agency's elementary, preparatory an~secondary schools. -:rheAgency assisted 48,635 pupilsinGovernment or pnvate schools under a grants-in-aidsy.stem, and. these schools also received 10,528 pupilsWithout subsidy,

84. The fact that the majority of the teachers em­ployed by the Age~1cy (4,023 in 19?1-1962) are, bynormal standards, inadequately qualified continues tobe a major obstacle in the way of development of asa.tisfac~ory edu~ation programme. ~his deficiency isstill senous despite the Improvement 111 teaching stand­ards whic~ has been achieved i? rec~n.t years throughthe operation of summer and l11-tral11111g courses andthe establishment of demonstration schools connectedwith the teacher training centres. The first qualifiedteachers to be trained at the Agency's Centre for menin Ramallah, Jordan, which opened in 1960, will beginteaching in UNRWA schools in the autumn of 1962.They will be of a considerably higher standard thanthe majority of new teachers in the past.

85. The improvement of general education, as en­visaged in the Agency's three-year plan, has only par­tially been achieved. Overcrowding in the classrooms isless than in former years, the elimination of doubleshifting continues as planned and certain much neededimprovements in educational teaching materials andtextbooks have been achieved. There have not beensuffi­cient funds, however, to permit the introduction ofscience teaching, home economics and physical trainingor to put into general application the experience gainedin the demonstration schools.

86. With an increasing number of refugee studentscompleting their secondary education, more and moreapplicants continue to present themselves for universityscholarships. Through a further contribution from theArabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) it hasbeen possible to sponsor 14 additional students in theyear under review, thus bringing the total number ofARAMCO scholarships to 36. Furthermore, UNRWAhas been able to award 39 other new university scholar­ships which were financed from funds obtained duringthe World Refugee Year. The total number of unrver­sity scholarships made available has increased from .402in the previous year to 469 in the year under review.Since the end of June 1961, 66 UNRWA:~ponsoredscholars graduated from the various universities of t~eMiddle East of whom 55 received their degrees 111medicine, engineering and sciences. The graduation ofthese scholars has released an equal number of .s~olar­ships for re-allocation to new scholars. In additIOn, anestimated average of three scholarships. becomes vacal~:each year owing to the holders dropping out of. th~l1courses. The scholarships thus vacated, together Wlt~l tnenewly created scholarships just described, have sUl'fi~edto permit a total of 152 new awards to be made durmg

as

th.e pa.st year. C~:msidering the number of applicantswith high academic rec.ords, this rate of new awards stilltaIls fa; short of meetIng the real need. Fortunately, asm pre,:lOus year?, refugee students continue to be spon­sored 111 appreciable numbers by the Governments oft~1e I~ost countries, particularly the United Arab Repub­he. 1 he French Government also awards 35 scholarshipsfor ref.ugees for university education, in addition totho.s<: given for secondary education and for vocationaltraining.

. 87. Statistical details concerning the Agency's educa­tional system are to be found in tables 19-23 of theannex.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING (INCLUDINGTEACHER TRAINING)

88..There has. been considerable progress during theyear m e~p~nchng .the facilities for vocational andteacher training, which, by September 1962, will havean enrolment of 2,800 trainees. This figure brings theAgen~y within easy reach of the 1963 target of a totalcapacity .of 4,400.. Th~ implementation of the pro­gramme IS pr~ceed1l1g In accordance with the plannedschedule, as WIll be seen from the following summary:

( a.) The extension to the Vocational Training Centreat Vladi Seer (Jordan) has been completed, The capa­city is now 404 trainees.

(b) The first phase of the extension to the Voca­tional Training Centre in Gaza has been completed' thesecond will be completed in September 1962. 'Thecapacity will then be 368 trainees.

(c) The first phase of the construction of the Voca­tional Training Centre near Damascus (Syrian ArabRepublic) was completed in September 1961. The sec­ond will be completed by September 1962. The capacitycity is now 404 trainees.

(d) Both the first and second phases of the construc­tion of the Vocational Training Centre at Siblin(Lebanon) will be completed before September 1962and the capacity will then be 396 trainees.

(e) An extension to the Teacher Training Centre formen at Ramallah (Jordan) has been completed; thetotal capacity of the Centre will be 400 in September1963.

(f) The combined Teacher Training and VocationalTraining Centre for girls at Ramallah (Jordan) will becompleted and opened in October 1962 with a totalcapacity for 633 trainees. By September 1964 the Centrewill be working at full capacity.

(0) I SO students are attending teacher-training insti­tutions in the Gaza Strip and the United Arab Republic,a number which will be increased to 300 in September1962.

(It) The first phase of the construction of the HomeVocational Training Centre in the Syrian Arab Republicfor 192 trainees will be completed by September 1962,and it is planned that further extension to bring thetotal capacity up to 384 will have been completed bySeptember 1963.

89. The construction of one and possibly two newcentres will begin this year. A donation from the Swed­ish Government will cover the cost of a centre to beestablished in Lebanon with residential accommodationfor 264 trainees. The curriculum will include the train­ing of 150 teachers of general subjects f?r ~ay schocls,32 handicraft teachers, 32 telecommU11lCatlOn techni-

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cians, and ~O instructors and foremen for technicalsc~ools an? industry. Sele~ted trainees from the Agen­cy s ,vo~atlOna! centres WIll be sent to Sweden fcir ayear s mdustr~al and. technical training 'and on theirreturn t?ey Will be given a further one-year course tob~come instructors and foremen. The Swedish donationWill ~over the cost of construction and equipment, thes~lanes of necessary specialists and two years of run­~llng costs. The s~cond new centre will be at Khan Yunis111 the Ga7;a Strip and will have accommodation for80 non-residential trainees. The subjects to he taughta.t th.ls centre are now under discussion with the authori­ties m Gaza,

90, Arrangements have been made with the authori­ties. it; Gaza to send graduates from the VocationalTraining Centre in Gaza town to the United Arah Re­public for a year's training in industry.

91. Two UNRWA instructors were sent at theAgency's expense to the United Kingdom for shortcourses of further training as specialists, and they willbe returning to teach and supervise in the autumn of1962, During the coming school year, 13 more instruc­tors are to attend courses in the United Kingdom andthe United Arab Republic. These instructors have ac­cepted an obligation to return to UNRWA and teachfor a stipulated minimum period.

92, A counselling programme has been introduced toassist in the recruitment of trainees and to guide themin the selection of courses. A counsellor is to be at­tached to each centre.

93. Arrangements have been made with the ILO toconduct a man-power survey to determine trends withinthe expanding Middle East economics so that theAgency can better relate its training programme to theneeds of these countries. The Agency has developed itstraining programme with flexibility so that it can adaptits programme to changes in the pattern of demand asthey occur by modifying or dropping courses and byadding new ones.

94. During the past year, distinguished representa­tives of many countries, including vocational trainingexperts, have visited the Agency's vocational trainingcentres. They have commented favourably 011 the work,the purposeful atmosphere, th~ suitability o.f premisesand equipment, and the low capital and operational costs.Without doubt such visits have contributed to the pro­gressively favourable respo?se ,the Agen~y l~a~ receiv~dfrom Governments, orga11lzatlOns and 1~1dlvlduals, ID

the form of donations both for construction of centresand for the sponsoring of scholarships for vocationalstudents in training.

95. Statistical details of the Agency's ,present VOC~l­tional and teacher-training programme Will he found t1I

tables 24 and 25 of the annex.

D. Self-support activities

96. By 1956 experience had shown tha~ large-scaledevelopment projects, directly associated \Ylth the re~ll­gee problem, such as had bee,n projected 111 .th~ earlieryears of the Agency's operation, were I.n ,pnnclple UI1­

acceptable to the refugees and Arab OP111l0~1 generally.It was also clear that the economic at;d SOCIal obstaclesin the way of implementing such projects were greaterthan had been realized. In recent years therefore theAgency with the approval of the General Assembly am]the support of the host Governments, has concentrated

- Including $2.4 million of World Refugee Year and related spe­cial income for the three-year plan of expansion of vocationaltraining, and $1.4 million of unpaid pledges largely paid in 1961.

b Excluding provision for $5 million of commitments carriedforward to 1962 and including $1.1 million unpaid pledges ex­pected to be paid in 1962.

related items included in the Agency's three-year pro­gramme. In the "normal" budget sector (covering food,shelter, health and welfare assistance) the Agency's in­come just equalled expenditure and commitments forthe year.

103. However, these relatively favourable financialresults, as noted above, were achieved only because basiccommodity prices proved to be considerably lower thanin 1960 and because the Agency did not find it necessaryto utilize any of its $0.8 million operational reserve setup for contingencies. Similar favourable circumstancescannot be expected to recur in future.

104. During 1961, financial operations for relief serv­ices were largely routine, and the amount of work inprogress but not completed at year end ($1.5 million)was about equal to that at the start of the year mfinancial terms. In elementary and secondary education,a considerable part (some $0.6 million) of the budgetfor capital facilities also was not implemented by yearend and had to be carried forward into 1962.

105. Efforts were concentrated during 1961 on theimplementation of the Agency's three-year plan to ex­pand vocational training facilities-some $3.7 millionhaving been expended or cornmitteed for this purpose.At the end of the year a considerable proportion o~ t)1iswork was still in progress, so that some $2.5 millionwas carried forward into 1962.

106. During the year, the programme for loans an.dgrants for individual assistance was being re-appropn­ated and the funds available for this programme,amounting to $0.4 million, were carried forward to 1962for use in that year.

107. In general, in most recent years the implementa­tion of the Agency's budget for capital items (construc­tion and equipment), other than for vocational andteacher training, has tended to lag behind schedule some

(In millions Of U.S. dollars)

2.3 22.1- 24.4-

33.5 33.51.6 1.6

t\1.8 1.8

36.9 36.9

59.0 61.3

26.2 27.8

7.6 7.95.0 5.10.2 0.5

39.0 41.3

20.0 20.0b

2.3

2.3

1.6

0.30.10.3

Budget itemsbrought for- Budgetward from for

1960 1961 1'ota/

Working capital at 31 December 1961.

Expenditure and commitments in 1961:Relief services .Elementary and secondary educa-

tion .Vocational and university educationProjects and special activities .

Working capital at 1 January 1961...Income for 1961:

Regular Government pledges .Other regular income .Wo;ld Refugee Year and related spe-

cial Income .

Total funds available in 1961 .

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DEVELOPMENT BANK OF JORDAN

97. Since its establishment in 1951, with substantialAgency participation, the Development Bank of Jordanhas granted loans to encourage economic developmentand raise living standards. The total number of refugeesemployed on projects established with the aid of theBank amounts to some 13,000, as compared with 12,000last year. Only 28 loans, totalling $102,000, were madeduring the year ending 31 March 1962, as comparedwith 107, in the amount of $466,000, during the previousperiod. This reflects the slow development in the Bank'soperations because of the lack of fresh capital.

PLACEMENT SERVICES

98. The Agency's placement service provides a linkbetween potential Middle East employers and refu­gees with suitable qualifications, including graduates ofthe vocational training centres. During the year 300requests were received from various employers regard­ing more than 1,100 vacancies; over 1,500 applicationswere processed and 835 applicants, the majority ofthem teachers, were placed in employment.

on the development of general education and the expan­sion of vocational training facilities to enable youngerrefugees to play a useful and productive role in therapidly changing society of the Middle East. Since 1956the Agency has also stressed smaller, individual self­support projects and, under its three-year plan, madeprovision for individual assistance in the amount of$500,000 and received some $343,000 from World Refu­gee Year sources designated for this purpose.

E. Financial operations

99. As explained in the introduction to this report,the Agency's fiscal period is the calendar year, whereasthe present report covers the period 1 July 1961 to 30June 1962. (The summary accounts of the Agency arepublished in separate documents, together with the re­lated Auditors' Report)," To facilitate comparison thissection presents a resume of the financial operations infiscal year 1961 and a revised estimate of operations infiscal year 1962. Part II of the Report presents thebudget for the year 1963 and discusses the problems offinancing it.

100. The financial operations for 1961 may be sum­marized as in the table in the next column.

101. The Agency's original budget for 1961 as sub­mitted to the General Assembly was $40.6 million, ofwhich, as noted above, $39 million was actually expendedor committed by the end of that year. The saving of $1.6million is accounted for by two factors, viz $0.8 millionwhich represents an operational reserve not required,and the balance which arises from basic commodityprices being more favourable than anticipated.

102. During 1961, the Agency's working capital (notincluding that reserved for 1960 commitments carriedforward to 1961) was reduced by $2.1 million. In fact,however, this depletion of capital represented no morethan the expenditure of special, one-time income re­ceived in 1960 from the World Refugee Year and otherspecial sources which was utilized in 1961 for the ex­pansion of vocational and teacher training facilities and

[j For the year 1961, see Official Records of the General As­sembly, Seventeenth Session, Supplement No. 6B (A/5206/Add.2) ,

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six to eight months because of th .able funds until well into the b de uncertainty of avail-

108u get year

. For 1962 the Agenc ' b .set at $39.2 millia'n However Yt~' ~dget was originallyto $37.4 million d~e to the cl .IS ~s no~ been revisedprices (about $1 million belo

e c1meIII basl~ commodity

the likelihood that the Agen W b?lldget estimates) andt use it . cy WI not now be fo do se I s operational reserve of $08 '11' rce

109 TI' . mi IOn..' 1~ followmg table summarizes the A '

revised estimated financial operations in 1962: gency s

110. During the year 1962 the Agency expects tocomplete most of the vocational and teacher training andother items carried forward from the 1961 budget aswell as implementing its programme for 1962. H~w­ever, certain construction works will not have beenco.mp~et:d by the end of 1962 and provision for themwill similarly have to be carried forward into 1963.

111. The estimated income for 1962 is $1.2 millionles~ than the estimated expenditure, despite the expec­tation of some $1.7 million of income from specialsources f or the vocational and teacher-training pro­grammes. The shortfall in 1962 can be met from work­ing capital, leaving a balance of $18.8 million at the end?f ~he year. As shown in part II of this report, a deficitIII income for 1963 of $3 million is expected if theregular contributions from Governments for that yearremain at the 1962 level. Such a deficit would reduceworking capital by the end of 1963 to about $15.7 mil­lion. This seems to be about the bare minimum of work­ing capital required in relation to a budget of approxi­mately $40 million per year.

Budget itemsbrought for- Budgetwardfron' for

1961 1962 Total

(I" mUUo"s of U.S. dollars)

1.5 26.3 27.8

0.6 8.0 8.6

2.5 2.9 5.40.4 0.2 0.6

5.0 37.4 42.4

18.8 18.8

. 112.. Further details of the A ' .tlon~ m 1961 and 1962 (and gen~y s financial opera-obtained from tables 26 t 30 earher years) may be

o annexed hereto.

F. Relations with host G.. . overnments andorganIzations

113. On the whole th A 'host Governments w~re ~ain1~~cYdSdrel~tions with theterms of co-operation and cord' tt un?g the year on~enerally appreciated that th ;,a I y. ,It IS probably notmto contact with the . t et gefncy s operations come

• 111 eres s 0 the Gomany pomts, ranging through the f vemmenrs atoperations. Some aspects of its r en Ire scale of theseconcern to the Governments lh ograrnme are of majorthose of a routine character i ese matters, as well asdiscussed with the authorit1e laye been fully and franklythe mutual understanding re~~ir:J f~;elhPt to maintaineffective operation of the A ,t e efficient andserious new difficulties gency s programme. Nolocal political develop::~~sen~u~tered as a result ofstatus of the A encv.J .'. a ers regardmg thethose of its staA ha y, bts pnvileges and immunities andthe special positionv~f ~~~ iproacheddO~ the basis thathost countries should be re~~did a~ot ItS staff1in thematter of principle but rather as a matt~~ muc 1 a? aa.dmini?trative convenience, the purp~se and

fP::ti~~l

tlonldbemg related !o sp~cific functions which th~ Agenc •cou not otherwise discharge with proper ffi' yA few 0 t t di e crency,u ? an mg quest~ons which, in the past, haveproved resl?tant to s~lutlon have been the subject offurdther review ~nd discussion, and progress has beenma e toward their settlement. .

114. Special note should be taken of the provisionby Governments of substantial tracts of land for' theconstrt1<;tlOn of t?e vocational and teacher-training cen~tres which constitute .a major. feature of the Agency'spro.gramme. Such action provides concrete evidence oftheir basic int.ere?t in this programme and their desireto encourage ItS Implementation and development. TheGovernments have also continued their contribution tot~e Age!lcy's relief ope;ations by rendering direct as­sistance m health, education, welfare and related servicesand by providing land, water and security protection forAgency installations. The direct burden to the host Gov­ernments during the past year has amounted to morethan $5.6 million.

115. The many voluntary agencies operating in theMiddle East have continued their assistance to therefugees in fields supplementary to the Agency's pro­gramme, especially in gifts of clothing and the provisionof health, education and welfare services, These activi­ties are closely co-ordinated with those of the Agency.In addition, many of these agencies contribute directlyto the Agency. Examples of such contributions are asubstantial gift during the year for the construction ofa Centre for the Blind in the Gaza Strip and the growingnumber of scholarships made available for students inthe Agency's vocational and teacher-training centres.The voluntary agencies which have made direct contri­butions during the year to the UNRWA programmeare listed in table 10 of the annex.

116. Finally, the Agency wishes to acknowledge theco-operation and assistance of other United Nationsorgans during the past year. UNESCO and WHOprovided techn!cal assistance as well, as pers~l1ne1 tosupervise and unplcment the Agency s education andhealth programme. Similarly, the Food and Agriculture

Total

61.2

33.6 33.60.9 0.9

0.2 0.2

1.5 1.5

36.2 36.2

56.2

Budgetfor19~2

5.0

(In millions of U.S. dollars)

5.0 20.0 25.0

Budget itemsbrought for­wardfrom

19~1

Working capital at 1 January 1962 ..

Estimated income for 1962:Regular Government pledgesOther regular income .World. R.efugee Year and rel~~ed

special Income .Vocational training centre and ...

teacher-training cen tre scholarshipsand rela ted special income .

Estimated expenditure in 1962:Relief services .Elementary and secondary educa-

tion .Vocational and university educa-

tion .Projects and special activities .

Estimated working capital at31 December 1962 .

Total estimated funds available in1962 .

15

Organization provided technical advice. The Agencycarried on extensive consultations with United NationsHeadquarters in New York, particularly with regardto administrative matters. The Agency benefits fromsharing communications, and transport facilities withthe United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

16

and the United Nations Emergency Force and frommaking use of the purchasing facilities of UNICEFThe Agency itself assisted the United Nations Con~ciliation Commission for Palestine, at its request incertain arrangements for the release of Arab as'setsstill held in banks located in Israel.

ps

Annex to part ISTATISTICS CONCERNING REGISTERED POPULATION AND CAMPS

Fable 1

TOTAL REGISTERED POPULATION ACCORDING TO CATEGORY OF REGISTRATION, 1950-1962'

Members offomilies regislered fa' ,olions "R" calego,y E Cl' M colegories 11Nil cal.tRory

Z· 3' 5d 6d 7d g.

Babiesand M embers of fami. MembersofchildTtn reIJ- Otller members

Full ration Half-ration is/ereg for TOlol 'tc~i7.Jing noHe! rlutving fam/Ii.s reCti,.

recipi.tnts flcipienlseducation and/or lne nora'io~J Grana10/4'

sennces 1+2+3 rations mtdical servicel or smf"s 1+5+6+7

June 1950 ........... 960,021 960,021June 1951. .......... 826,459 51,034 2,174 879,667

June 1952 ........... 805,593 58,733 18,347 882,67324,455 904-,122

June 1953 ........... 772,166 64,817 34,765 871,74832,738 915,411

June 1954 .... " ..... 820,486 17,340 49,232 887,05845,013 916,761

June 1955 ........... 828,531 17,228 60,227 905,98654,793 94-1,851

June 1956 ........... 830,266 16,987 75,026 922,27963,403 969,389

June 1957 ........... 830,611 16,733 86,212 933,55674,059 996,338

18,203 4,462 62,980 1,019,201

June 1958 ........... 836,781 16,577 110,600 963,958' 19,776 5,901 63,713 1,053,348

June 1959•.......... 843,739 16,350 130,092 990,181 21,548 6,977 68,922 1,087,628

June 196O ........... 849,634 16,202 150,170 1,016,006 22,639 8,792 73,452 1,120,889

June 1961 ........... 854,268 15,998 169,730 1,039,996 23,947 9,515 77,566 1,151,024

June 1962 ........... 862,083 15,805 176,772 1,054,660 20,004 9,027 91,069 1,174,760

• The above statistics are based on the Agency's registrationrecords which do not necessarily reflect the actual refugee popu­lation owing to factors such as the high rate of unreported deathsand undetected false registration.

b Includes up to the year 1954 bedouins who thereafter receivedfull rations and babies who are now issued with full rations aftertheir first anniversary. Half rations are given at present only tofrontier villagers in Jordan.

• Includes babies below one year of age and children who be­cause of ration ceilings are not issued rations (145,042 in Jordan),

d Columns 5, 6 and 7 show the refugees whose registration forservices has been reduced or cancelled according to their familyincome as known to the Agency and the income scale in force intheir country of residence.

The members of "R" families receiving no rations (column 5)correspond to a level of income insufficient to cancel the wholefamily's entitlement to rations. Up to 1956, such refugees werereported together with families of the "N" category (column 7).

The "E" and "M" categories of registration (column 6) createdin 1956 are applied in Lebanon only because it has not been pos­sible to secure agreement for the introduction in other hostcountries of the incomescales providingfor the progressivereduc­tion or restoration of rations.

"N" cate~ory (column 7) includes refugees whose income issuch as to disqualify them for rations or normal services, or whohave received assistance to enable them to become self-auppcrt­ing.

In general, it must be pointed out that the distribution ofrefugees by category of regilltration givesonly a partial picture ofthe number of self-supporting refugees owing to the limitationsfaced by the Agency in determining their actual income or degreeof need.

• The total roputation as at June 1952 included 19,616 refugeesreceiving relie in Israel who wereUNRWA's responsibility up to1 July 1952.

f Details not available.

11.

Table 2

DISTRIBUTION OF REGISTERED REFUGEE POPULATION ACCORDING TO COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE,CATEGORY OFREGISTRATION AND AGE AS AT 30 JUNE 1962

Number of personsCategoryof regis- Below one 15 years and Numb., af

Co""lry tration» ;yearb 1-15 years· ouer To/al families

Jordan ............. {R 10,750 230,968 352,530 594,248 110,500N 271 9,744 34,882 44,897 10,985

Total 11,021 240,712 387,412 639,145 121,485

Gaza .............. {R 6,481 106,202 140,398 253,081 45,572N 76 3,891 11,566 15,533 4,944

Total 6,557 110,093 151,964 268,614 50,516

Lebanon ........... {R 1,845 47,336 68,558 117,739 24,721

E M 73 2,163 5,428 7,664 1,414N 93 2,742 16,536 19,371 6,686

Total 2,011 52,241 90,522 144,774 32,821

Syrian Arab Republic{R 3,342 43,855 62,399 109,596 23,569

E "Md 12 413 938 1,363 193N ·27 1,556 9,685 11,268 4,662

Total 3,381 45,824 73,022 122,227 28,424

Agency total. ....... {R 22,418 428,361 623,885 1,074,664 204,362

E M 85 2,576 6,366 9,027 1,607N 467 17,933 72,669 91,069 27,277

GRAND TOTAL 22,970 448,870 702,920 1,174,760 233,246

• See table 1 for explanation of category of registration.b The number of babies below one year of age is less than the number of births recorded during

the preceding year, owing to delays in registration of births.• A number of children born since 1950 in E & M and N families is not registered with the

Agency.d These categories apply only to some UNRWA employees.

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NUMBER OF UNRWA CAMPS, TOTAL POPULATION SHELTERED AND TYPE OF SHELTER, 1950-1962'

Year Camps

June 1950 , .June 1951. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71June 1952 63June 1953 ,. . . . . 64June1954 59June 1955 , . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57June 1956. • . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . . 58June 1957. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58June1958 58June 1959. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58June1960 58June 1961... .....••....... 57June 1962 , . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . 57

Papulalion

267,598276,294281,128282,263305,630335,752358,681360,598396,761414,467421,518442,862456,400

Tents

30,58029,98922,05518,05915,18014,21212,989

8,3284,9501,984

149

Huls

10,93015,76030,98839,74551,36362,79482,93482,59589,59898,147

103,616108,155116,681

Table 6

NUMBEROF REFUGEES IN UNRWA CAMPS ACCORDING TOCOUNTRY AS AT30 JUNE 1962'

Co,mlryNumber of Number of Percenlage of lhe 10101

families perscmsb refugee population

• In general, refugees not living in UNRWA camps live in the villages and cities of the hostcountries and are eligible for the same range of services except that the Agency provides for themno sanitation services. Their economic status differs little from that of refugees in camps.

b Refugees enumerated are all those officially registered in camps irrespective of their categoryof registration,

The figures do not include refugees in camps who are not given shelter by UNRWA but bene­fit from sanitation services only.

TOTAL 88,759

Jordan '" .. " .Gaza .Lebanon .Syrian Arab Republic .

40,57029,86213,8884,439

206,218165,418

64,48120,283

456,400

32.361.644.516.6

38.9

BASIC RATIONS

Table 7

BASICRATIONS AND OTHER SUPPLIES DISTRIBUTED BY UNRWA

l , Basic dry rations

A monthly ration for one person consists of:

10,000 grammes of flour600 grammes or pulses600 grammes of sugar500 grammes of rice375 grammes of oils and fats

This ration provides about 1,500 calories per day per person. In winter the monthly ration isincreased by:

300 grammes of pulses400 grammes of flour

It then provides about 1,600 calories per day per person.

2. Other supplies distributed

1 piece of soap (150 grammes) per month to each ration beneficiary1 blanket for each ration beneficiary and for each child registered for services, every three years1~ litres of kerosene are allocated to ration beneficiaries and to babies and children registered

for services, in camps in Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic, during five wintermonths. In Gaza 1 litre is allocated to these beneficiaries, whether or not they are in camps,during five winter months.

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aSOCIAL WELFARE

Table 8

CO-OPERATIVES IN REFUGEE CAMPS AND INSTALLATIONS, JULY 1962

Handicraft. KalandiaHandicraft TulkaremMat-making Akabat jaberBakery JalazoneBakery Fawwar

LebanonConsumer Mar EliasSchool can teen Ba'labaq

JordanAgricultural. KaramehSavings and credit (agricultural) NuweimehPoultry....•....................................... Deir Ammar

10 school savings schemes Irbed, Hebronand Nablus areas

4 school canteens Youth activitiesSyrian Arab Republic

Bakery Khan DannounGaza

Consumer. NuseiratConsumer ' BureijSoap-making MaghaziSchool canteen " ; Gaza Town

TyPe of co-operalioe

Bakery Balata

CamP

Number of UNRWAfamilies initial Outsiaebenefiling assisJanc~ donati01~

(U.5. dollars)

48 925130

50 1,40017 56016 420 1,600 chicks

Incubator (Heiferand brooder project)

48 350 2,04422 46242 1,56830 56081 977 and 1%

tons fuel oil124 980 and 1)1

tons fuel oil

1,157117

72 1,125

360 346115 346

7 754 -520 -

LoanjYl7".

GOfJernme7l1(U.S. aoUors)

24.000

1,680

Table f)

VOLUNTARY AGENCIES DONATIJolG CLOTHING TO PALESTINE REFUGEES, 1961-1962

American Friends Service CommitteeAmerican Middle East Relief AssociationCanadian Lutheran World ReliefCatholic Relief Services (United States)Church of Denmark Inter-Church Aid CommitteeChurch of ScotlandChurch World Service (United States)Lutheran World Relief, Inc.Mennonite Central Committee (United States)New Zealand Council of Organizations for Relief Services Overseas, Inc. (CORSO)Norwegian ChurchOxford Committee for Famine Relief (United Kingdom)Red Cross Societies (United Kingdom and New Zealand)Red Cross Society (Canada)Unitarian Service Committee of CanadaUnited Church of CanadaVastkustens Efterkrigshjalp (Sweden)Women's Voluntary Services (United Kingdom)

Table 10

VOLUNTARY AGENCIES IN THE AREA OF UNRWA OPERATIONS GIVING ACTIVE HELP TOPALESTINE REFUGEES, 1961-1962

CARE (Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere, Inc.)The Church Missionary Society (in Jordan)The Lutheran World Federation (in Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic)The Mennonite Central Committee (in Jordan) .The Near East Christian Council Committee for Refugee Work (in Gaza, In Lebanon through the

Joint Christian Committee, in Jordan directly and through the International Church Committee)The Pontifical Mission (in Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza)The Southern Baptist Mission U.S. (hospital in Gaza)UNRWA Women's AuxiliaryThe World Council of ChurchesThe Young Men's Christian Association (in Jordan, Gaza and Lebanon)The Young Women's Christian Association (in Jordan)The World Alliance of YMCA's

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Table 11

REFUGEES WHO EMIGRATED WITH UNRWA ASSISTANCE DURING THE FIVEYEARSENDING JUNE 1962

Uniled Statesof America Venezuela Brazil Colombia Canada Others Total

1957-1958 .............. 80 170 137 11 34 433. 1958-1959 .............. 273 75 84 1 44 477

1959-1960.............. 167 9 166 8 18 39 4071960-1961. ............. 75 12 121 77 14 49 3481961-1962 .............. 82 6 27 79 1 25 220

677 272 535 166 45 181 1,885

HEALTH STATISTICS

Table 12

NUMBER OFVIsITSTOUNRWA AND SUBSIDIZED CLINICS, 1 JULY 1961-30 JUNE 1962

.S~rian ArabLebanon Republic Jordan Gata Total

Population served by medicalservices .................... 126,863 110,323 592,708 252,130 1,082,024

----General medical cases .......... 404,165 435,634 648,192 482,106 1,970,097Inj ections ......•............. 289,009 244,724 506,992 355,942 1,396,667Dressings and skin •........... 262,638 157,862 732,622 505,634 1,658,756Eye cases .. , ......... , ....... 196,079 89,711 856,632 577,169 1,719,591Dental. .•.................... 36,321 17,319 30,784 17,268 101,692

TOTAL 1,188,212 945,250 2,775,222 1,938,119 6,846,803

Table 13

HOSPITAL FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO PALESTINE REFUGEES, 1961-1962

HospitalsGovernment and local authorities. .... . . . . . .. 27Voluntary societies or private. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 45UNRWA......................... 5

TOTAL 77

In addition there are 3 maternity cell/res in Jordan and 7 in Gaza.

No. of beds availableSyri.an

Lebanon Arab Republic Jordan Gaza Total

GeneraL ................... 160 81 610 294 1,145Tuberculosis ... ... , ......... 100 20 110 150 380Maternity ........ .......... 24 11 61 80 176Paediatrics .... ........... 27 18 166 17 228Mental ......... 53 3 so ° 106

TOTAL 364 133 997 541 2,035

Beds per 1,000 population .... 2.87 1.21 1.68 2.15 1.88

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Table 14

LABORATORY SERVICES

During the year 1 July 1961-30 June 1962, 71,904 tests were carried out Tl "fiof these were as follows. . le most sign! cant

Services

BloodFilms for malaria and relapsing fever .

Malari~ ::~elapsJng fever , .

WIdal .Weil Felix •...............................................S.T.S .

StoolsOva and Parasites .

Ascaris " "Taenia .An.ky!os~oma: . : •........................................Trichiuris Trichiura .Amoebae Hist, (Cysts. Or Troph) .

Smears and culturesCoryn. Diphtheria •.................•.................... , .Neisser. Gonorrhoea .Mycobact, Tuberculosis .

No. ,xam;n,d No. positive

5,793124

31,605 459

334 119,753 373

39,4258,720

895943

2,8023,713

277 6110 21

4,607 803

Table 15

INFECTIOUS DISEASES RECORDED AMONG PALESTINE REFUGEE POPULATION,1 JULY 1961-30 JUNE 1962

SyrianLebaJlon Arab Republic Jord." Gosa Total

Population ................... 126,863 110,323 592,108 252,130 1,082,024

Plague ....................... 0 0 0 0 0Cholera .•.................... 0 0 0 0 0Yellow fever .................. 0 0 0 0 0Smallpox ..................... 0 0 0 0 0Typhus (louse borne) .......... 0 0 0 0 0Relapsing fever (louse borne) ... 0 0 0 0 0Relapsing fever (endemic) ...... 0 0 3 0 3Diphtheria ................... 1 6 12 0 19Measles ...................... 2,356 1,344 2,394 3,418 9,512Whooping cough ......... " ... 1,118 312 826 457 2,713Chickenpox .................. 1,178 1,084 3,034 2,249 7,545Mumps ...................... 1,421 725 1,549 77 3,772Meningitis (cerebra-spinal) ..... 0 6 6 5 17

Poliomyelitis ................. 11 6 27 3 47

Enteric group fevers ........... 16 396 174 31 617

Malaria ...................... 0 3 63 72 138

Bilharziasis ................... 0 0 0 61 61

Ancylostomiasis ............... 28 0 6 552 586

Tuberculosis .................. 102 49 187 285 623

Syphilis ...................... 34 18 5 152 209

Gonorrhoea .................. 1 0 5 6 12

Scarlet fever .................. 0 0 0 0 0

Rabies ....................... 0 0 0 0 0

Tetanus ...................... 2 0 5 13 20

Brucellosis ................... 0 0 0 0 0

Infective hepatitis ............. 35 92 162 147 436

Leishmaniasis ................. 0 13 1 0 14

The following statistics show thenumber of clinic attendances inrespect ofthediseases indicated:

7,160 15,616 43,098Dysentery.................... 12,637 7,685Trachoma .................... 1,453 112 19,895 21,950 43,410

Conjunctivitis ........ , ....... 14,268 9,905 64,720 25,575 114,468

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Table 16

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

S')IrianArab

A rue-nota] services Lebanon Republic Jordan Gaoa Tolal

Number of ante-natal clinics " , .. . 20 24 27 9 80

Number of pregnant women registered .Average monthly attendance .Number of STS performed , .Number of cases positive serology .Number of home visits (ante-natal care) , .

Infant health careNumber of infant health centres .. , '" .

Number reg. 0·1 year monthly average .... , .. , .Number attended 0-1 year monthly average .Number reg. 1-2 years monthly average .Number attended 1-2 years monthly average .Number of smallpox: vaccinations" .Number of TAB immunizations completed" .Number of triple vaccine immunizations

completed" .Number of home visits (infant care) .

4,562 2,284 11,354 11,8561,444 687 3,330 3,2571,633 1,630 6,291 11,173

51 35 7 1091,807 1,083 3,412 118

20 24 31 9

3,925 2,174 7,591 9,4743,536 1,978 5,961 8,5353,068 2,298 6,144 7,6281,414 730 4,241 2,5355,714 3,567 1,447 4,5302,919 1,540 4,012 4,438

3,629 2,629 6,255 3,81110,025 7,928 29,830 1,104

30,0568,718

20,727202

6,420

84

23,16420,01019,1388,920

15,25812,909

16,32448,887

School health serviceNumber of school teams .Number of children examined .Number of schools inspected .Number of TAB boosters given" , .Number of diphtheria boosters given" .

13,163

188788

3,741

114,798

122

°°

231,809

1948,0761,796

115,372

20091,7105,631

565,142

704100,57411,168

" In addition to vaccinations carried out in infant health centres and in schools there areperiodic vaccination campaigns referred to in the text of the report.

SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING

Table 17

UNRWA SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING PROGRAMME

Average number of beneficiaries, 1 July 1961-30 June 1962

" Centres operated by voluntary societies.

• Centres operated by voluntary societies.b Average for the scholastic year.

Table 18

UNRWA MILK PROGRAMME

Average number of beneficiaries, 1 July 1961-30 June 1962

Daily cooked meal. benefiticries M O~ltflly dry ra-tion beneficiaries

A l1erllge for the )'ear A v""age for the -year

No. of 2-15 yrsfeeding a1Jd special Pregnant Nursing TB out- Grand

Countr')l centres 0-2 years cases Total women mothers patients Total toto!

Lebanon ............. 22 566 4,261 4,827 1,120 3,198 253 4,571 9,398Syrian Arab Republic.. 18 373 4,059 4,432 618 1,651 192 2,461 6,893

Jordan .....•........ {48 1,597 16,474} 20,257 2,721 9,975 555 13,251 33,50826" 176 2,010Gaza ................ 16 1,205 9,755 10,960 3,128 8,196 433 11,757 22,717

130 3,917 36,559 40,476 7,587 23,020 1,433 32,040 72,516 j1

1II.1

Il,,

Daily numher of beneficiariesAverage for the year

Milk Orphanages,distribution medical pre ..

centres Schools scri otions etc. Total

34,629 5,966 371 40,96634,032 5,947 112 40,09166,325} 21,054 643 90,8462,82440,196 29,613 ° 69,809

178,006 62,580b 1,126 241,712

11

°6

°

Distributiono"ly

179 17

2322

{8434"16

N umber of milk centres

Preparationond

distributionCOltn~ry

Lebanon .Syrian Amb Republic ..

Jordan .

Gaza ,

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GENERAL 'EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPSTable 19

UNRWA /UNESCO SCHOOLS

Number oj elementary, preparatory and secondary pupils, 1951-1962

Cou"try 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962

GazaElementary ....... 19,543 22,551 25,702 31,107 34,016 35,087 34,876 35,163 34,806 36,633 36,591 37,885Preparatory ....... 61 164 675 1,781 3,339 4,937 6,410 7,495 8,244 8,481 9,841 10,641Secondary ........

TOTAL 19,604 22,715 26,377 32,888 37,355 40,024 41,286 42,658 43,050 45,114 46,432 48,526

JordanElementary ....... 16,345 15,882 30,118 39,188 42,144 43,649 42,431 41,600 39,519 38,223 38,309 41,000Preparatory....... 87 790 1,612 2,862 4,274 5,357 6,714 6,898 7,437 8,384Secondary........ 22 82 200 334 495 578 612 598 875

TOTAL 16,345 15,882 30,207 40,000 43,838 46,711 47,039 47,452 46,811 45,733 46,344 50,259

LebanonElementary ....... 4,564 6,291 9,332 11,695 12,567 12,983 13,155 13,936 14,881 15,422 16,292 17,124Preparatory ....... 86 384 620 948 1,003 996 1,325 1,668 2,159 2,676Secondary ........

TOTAL 4,564 6,291 9,418 12,079 13,187 13,931 14,158 14,932 16,206 17,090 18,451 19,800.Syrian Arab Republic

Elementary ....... 2,599 2,895 5,410 8,758 9,700 10,288 11,042 11,332 12,256 13,354 13,685 14,430Preparatory ....... 166 864 671 936 1,180 1,562 1,916 2,592 3,589 4,122Secondary........

TOTAL 2,599 2,895 5,576 9,622 10,371 11,224 12,222 12,894 14,,172 15,946 17,274 18,552GRAND TOTAL

Elementary ....... 43,051 47,619 70,562 90,748 98,427 102,007 101,504 102,031 101,462 103,632 104,877 110,439Preparatory ....... 61 164 1,014 3,819 6,242 9,683 12,867 15,410 18,199 19,639 23,026 25,823Secondary ........ 22 82 200 334 495 578 612 598 875

TOTAL 43,112 47,783 71,576 94,589 104,751 111,890 114,705 117,936 120,239 123,883 128,501 137,137

Table 20

NUMBER OF REFUGEE PUPILS ATTENDING GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ASAT31 MAY 1962 SHOWING NUMBER FOR WHOM UNRWA PAYS SUBSIDY

Eleme"tary Preparalor')' S"o"dary

Government Private GOlJeru.menl Private Go.ern".. ,,1 Prlsa;«COllntry schools schools .,hool. schools schoots schools Total

Gaza ........... (-) (-) (-) (-) 6,234 (3,400) (-) 6,234 (3,400)Jordan" ........ 16,258 (16,258) 7,423 (7,423) 5,266 (3,600)b 1,170 (199) 4,047 (2,400)b 858 (199) 35,022 (30,079)Lebanon ........ 574 (416) 5,520 (.'3,846) 122 (60) 2,141 (1,427) 8 (7) 1,190 (1,048) 9,555 (6,804)Syrian Arab

Republic ..... 4,596 (4,596) 359 (359) 827 (827) 863 (863) 900 (900) 807 (807) 8,352 (8,352)

TOTAL 21,428 (21,270) 13,302 (11,628) 6,215 (4,487) 4,174 (2,489) 11,189 (6,707) 2,855 (2,054) 59,163 (48,635)

Note: The numbers of pupils for whom UNRWA pays a subsidyare shown in parentheses.

" The figures shown are provisional.

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b UNRWA pays a subsidy in respect of 6,000 pupils receivingpreparatory and secondary education in government schools inJordan; the division of subsidized pupils between preparatory andsecondary schools is an estimate only.

Table 21

UNRWA/UNESCO SCHOOLS SHOWING NUMBER OF PUPILS BY GRADES AS AT 31 MAY 1962

ELEMENTARY

1 Elementary 11 Elementary 111 Elementarv IV Elemenlary V Elemetltary VI Elementary Tolal Elem.nlo,,.

Counlry Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls

Gaza .............. 3,428 3,131 3,247 3,234 3,365 3,304 3,122 2,839 2,948 2,568 4,036 2,663 20,146 17,739Jordan ............. 5,006 4,769 4,186 3,845 4,247 3,233 3,829 2,513 3,414 1,998 2,780 1,180 23,462 17,538Lebanon ........... 1,804 1,509 1,861 1,469 1,751 1,399 1,647 1,226 1,567 995 1,259 637 9,889 7,235Syrian Arab Republic 1,596 1,379 1,603 1,240 1,537 1,108 1,404 958 1,200 717 1,104 584 8,444 5,986

TOTAL 11,834 10,788 10,897 9,788 10,900 9,044 10,002 7,536 9,129 6,278 9,179 5,064 61,941 48,498

GRAND TOTAL 22,622 20,685 19,944 17,538 15,407 14,243 110,439

PREPARATORY AND SECONDARY

1 11 111 IV Total 1 11 111 7'0101PreParatory Prepa,a/o,y Prepa,alory Preparalory P,epa,alory Seconda,y Seconda,y Seconda,y Seconda,y

COlmlry Boys Gi,ls Boys Gi,ls Boys Gi,ls Boys Gi,ls Boys Girls Boys Gi,ls Boys Gi,ls Boys Girls Boys Girls

Gaza ........... 1,573 1,625 2,719 1,739 2,040 945 6,332 4,309Jordan ......... 2,580 990 2,168 699 1,423 524 6,171 2,213 451 202 222 875Lebanon ........ 856 379 746 268 279 40 101 7 1,982 694Syrian Arab

Republic ..... 1,085 458 999 378 919 283 3,003 1,119

TOTAL 6,094 3,452 6,632 3,084 4,661 1,792 101 7 17,488 8,335 451 202 222 875

GRAND TOTAL 9,546 9,716 6,453 108 25,823 451 202 222 875

Table 22

DISTRIBUTION OF REFUGEE PUPILS RECEIVING EDUCATION AS AT 31 MAY 1962

z

Table 23

DISTRIBUTION OF UNRWA SCHOLARSHIP-HOLDERS BY FACULTIES, 1961-1962

Ag,icul. Arts and Com- Dentisl· Engi'neer- Sonlta-VacanciesCountrv ture sciences mtree ,y ing Forestry Medicine Pharmacy Hon Tolal

Gaza ........................... 2 26 1 40 45 10 126-Jordan ......................... 1 55 3 57 65 5 189b 1Lebanon ........................ 37 1 25 12 76· 4Syrian Arab Republic ............ 2 9 2 1 31 2 17 6 70d J

TOTAL 5 127 4 6 153 3 139 21 3 461 8

Number of pupilsN"mber of Number of pupils in Number of pupils itl in secondary Nnmber of refugeeUNRWAJ elemenla,y classes preparato,y classes classes at pupils inUNESC a/ UNRWA/UNESCO al UNRWA/UNESCO UNRWA/UNESCO ilDtJunment and Tolal

schools schools schools schools pr/Mle schools number ofrefugee

Govern- pupilsmen! Private reaiuing.. COllnl,y Boys GMs Total Boys Girls To/al Boys Girls Tolal schools schaals educalian

Gaza ................ 85 20,146 17,739 37,885 6,332 4,309 10,641 6,234 54,760Jordan .............. 173 23,462 17,538 41,000 6,171 2,213 8,384 875 875 25,571- 9,451- 85,281Lebanon ............. 62 9,889 7,235 17,124 1,982 694 2,676 704 8,851 29,355Syrian Arab Republic .. 78 8,444 5,986 14,430 3,003 1,119 4,122 6,323 2,029 26,904

TOTAL 398 61,941 48,498 110,439 17,488 8,335 25,823 875 875 38,832 20.331 196,300

- Figures are provisional.

- Including 9 ARAMCO scholarships and 7 additional scholar­ships made possible by exemptions awarded by the Governmentof the United Arab Republic to outstandingly successful scholars.

b Including 14 ARAMCO scholarships.

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• Including 7 ARAMCO scholarships.d I neluding 6 ARA M CO scholarships and 12 additional scholar­

ships made available from savings which accrued on account ofthe delay in starting the academic year.

IJ)1

1II1i1,

Table 25

FORECAST OF CAPACITY AND OUTPUT OF VOCATIONAL AND TEACHER-TRAINING CENTRES PROGRAMME, 1962-1963 AND 1963-1964

Capacity: Total number of trainee placesEnrolment: Number of trainee places available in current yearGraduates: Assuming 100 per cent enrolment

Cent" CDpadt"

Kalandia Vocational Training Centre. . . . . . .. . ... .. 392Wadi Seer Vocational Training Centre.. . .. .. . . . . .. 404Ramallah Men's Teacher-Training Centre.... . . .. . . .. 400Ramallah Girls' Vocational Training Centre /Teacher-

Training Centre , . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. 633Gaza Vocational Training Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368Beit Hanoun Rural Training Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 75Khan Younis Vocational Training Centre .Damascus Vocational Training Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392Horns Vocational Training Center /Teacher-Training Centre 192Siblin Vocational Training Centre.. .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 396Siblin Technical and Teacher-Training Institute .Teacher Training, UAR , . .. . . . . . . . . 120Teacher Training, Gaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480YWCA-Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

GRAND TOTAL 3,882

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}962-}963

Enrolment Graduales

344 272404 200300 100

294 50276 12850

376 16144288

6024030 30

2,806 796

1963-1964

Capacity Enrolment Grad..al~..

392 392 184396 396 264400 400 100

633 538368 368 8075 7580 48

392 392 196384 276 72396 396 88264 157120 90480 36030 30 30

4,410 3,918 1,014

FINANCETable 26

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF INCOME, EXPENDITURE AND WORKING CAPITAL OF UNRWA,1 MAY 1950-31 DECEMBER 1962"

(in U.S. dollars)

For the period

Contributionsfrom

Governments

Income

Otherinc;omt

Totalincome Expenditure

Adjustmentsto working

capital'increases

(decreases)

Pree worki1lgcapilal at

programme end

1 May 1950 to 30 June 1951 ............. 39,477,279 1,346,325 40,823,604 33,598,972 b 7,224,6321 July 1951 to 30 June 1952.............. 67,686,495 1,018,785 68,705,280 28,573,058 215,792 47,572,6461 July 1952 to 30 June 1953.............. 26,867,673 440,419 27,308,092 26,778,934 518,220 48,620,0241 July 1953 to 30 June 1954.............. 22,684,330 575,024 23,259,354 29,192,012 (157,264) 42,530,1021 July 1954 to 30 June 1955.............. 23,673,500 594,161 24,267,661 29,222,705 (114,217) 37,460,8411 July 1955 to 30 June 1956 .............. 23,345,073 571,866 23,916,939 32,198,550 (164,814) 29,014,4161 July 1956 to 31 December 1957 ......... 42,373,871 1,072,872 43,446,743 52,464,139 198,575 20,195,5951 January 1958 to 31 December 1958 ...... 32,626,867 1,104,793 33,731,660 32,777,564 36,519 21,186,2101 January 1959 to 31 December 1959 ...... 32,719,880 1,405,205d 34,125,085d 35,015,817 110,688 20,406,1661 January 1960 to 31 December 1960 ...... 33,731,109d 2,629,135d 33,360,244d 34,674,460 150,084 22,242,0341 January 1961 to 31 December 1961. ..... 34,385,495d 2,306,293d 36,691,788d 39,051,521 194,943 20,077,2441 January 1962 to 31 December 1962 ...... 33,905,188d e 2,300,000d • 36,205,188d • 37,435,000' 18,84,7,432'

413,476,760 15,364,878 428,841,638 410,982,732 988,526

• There has been a change this year in the basis of the figuresin this table. Previously they were based on the Agency's auditedstatements but this year are modified as follows in order to relateto each year income intended for that year (regardless of whenreceived) and expenditure against that year's budget (regardlessof when actually incurred):

(i) The figures of income for each year consist of governmentpledges for that year (regardless of when actually paid) and otherIncome when actually received.

(ii) The figures of expenditure for each year include all commit­ments against that year's budget (even if actual expenditures were

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tmade in a subsequent year) and exclude any expenditure againsa prior year's budget.

b Includes $2,646,909 deficit of United Nations Relief for Pales­tine Refugees paid by UNRWA.

o Adjustments to working capital are those reflected in theaudited statements and consist principally of expenditure adjust­ments made in subsequent years, usually the year following theyear to which the adjustment applies.

d Includes special contributions for World Refugee Year orVocational /Teacher-Training scholarships and related purposes.

e Estimated figures.

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Table 28

STATEMENT OF EXTRA-BUDGETARY FUNDS RECEIVED OR PLEDGED FOR EXPANSION OF EDUCATION,TRAINING AND INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE FROM WORLD REFUGEE YEAR AND RELATED SOURCES,FOR THE PERIOD 1 JULY 1959 TO 31 DECEMBER 1961"

(In U.S. dollars)

ContributorWorld

Refugee YearRelatedsources To/al

a The contributions shown in this table are included in tables 26 and 27 and arc not additionalthereto.

b The contributions of the United Kingdom were received through the United KingdomCommittee for \Vorld Refugee Year.

c Includes $48,641 of pledges still unpaid at 31 July 1962.cl Apart from this special contribution of $500,000, the United States Government has in­

creased its regular contribution for its fiscal year ended 30 June 1962 by $1,700,000, the increasebeing earmarked by it for the Agency's vocational training programme. A similar increase isintended for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1963.

GRAND TOTAL 3,760,397"

TOTAL fROM OTHERS 2,209,184

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OthersArabian American Oil Company , .Australian World Refugee Year Committee .Canadian Commi ttee for World Refugee Year .Children of Canada .CORSO, New Zealand .

Danish World Refugee Year Committee .Farnsworth, Ann Labouisse, U.S.A .Furse, WiIIiam, V.K. .German National World Refugee Year Committee .Iranian World Refugee Year Committee .

Jamaican National Refugee Council. .Irish Red Cross , , .Netherlands Committee for World Refugee Year .Norwegian World Refugee Year Committee .Philippine National Committee for World Refugee

year .

Order of St. John of Jerusalem, U.K .Oxford University Committee for World Refugee YearSwedish Broadcasting Relief Committee .Swedish Red Cross .Uganda World Refugee Year Appeal. ,

United Kingdom Committee for World Refugee YearUnited Nations Secretariat staffs .Viet-Nam Committee for World Refugee Year. .WOl·ld Refugee Year television and film show .Sundry donors through World Refugee Year Stamp

Plan , .Sundry donors and interest earned ' .. , .

TOTAL FROM GOVERNMENTS

GovernmentsBurma .Cambodia .Canada .Cuba .Federation of Malaya .

Gambia .Greece .Holy See , .Japan , .Kuwait .

Liberia .Morocco .New Zealand .Pakistan .Thailand .

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland>United States of Americas , .Viet-Nam .Sundry Governments through World Refugee Year

Stamp Plan .

32

Table 29

STATEMENT OF EXTRA-BUDGETARY FUNDS RECEIVED OR PLEDGED FOR THE VOCATIONALTRAINrNG SCHOLARSHIP FUND AND RELATED PURPOSES AS AT 30 JUNE 1962'

(In U.S. dollars)

Contributor Description

R<c~~;1 in For 1962 For 1963

alld prioryears Receipts Pledges Total Receipts Pledges Tatal

Governmentsd

Finland D.S. dollars 10,000Kuwait , , , , , D.S. dollarsNorway , .. , ' Norwegian crowns, 50,000Saudi Arabia. , .. , D.S. dollars 100,000Sweden> , CashSwitzerland , .. , .. , .. , Swiss francs, 173,000 40,232Switzerland , Swiss francs, 173,000Switzerland 300 tons of whole milk

powder 49,224Switzerland 14 tons of cheese

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40,232

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32,185 40,232

American Federation of Labor and Con­gress of Industrial Organizations,U.S.A. D.S. dollars

American Machine and Foundry (AMF)U.S.A , Athletic supplies

American Middle East Relief (AMER)U.S.A Aspirin

American Middle East Relief (AMER)U.S.A Medical supplies

American Middle East Relief (AMER)U.S.A , , , Vase line

American Middle East Relief (AMER),U.S.A , Medical supplies

American Middle East Relief (AMER),U.S.A , , Medical supplies

Arabian American Oil Co., Saudi Arabia. D.S. dollarsViscount Astor, u.x, Pounds sterling, 800The Australian National Committee for

W.R.Y Australian pounds, 5,400British Council of Churches , .Pounds sterling, 15,000Canadian Junior Red Cross Canadian dollars, 50,000CARITAS, Austria, , . , . , Austrian schillings, 100,000Catholic Women's League, U.K Pounds sterling, 5,000Christian Women's Fellowship of First

Christian Church, D.S.A U.S. dollarsChristian Women's Fellowship of the

National Christian Church, V.S.A , U.S. dollarsLeslie H. Coils, U.K Pounds sterling, 200Co-operative for American Remittances

to Everywhere (CA.R.E.) Tool kitsMichael E. Dawc, U.K Pounds sterling, 175Dhahran Women's Group, Saudi Arabia.V.S. dollarsFinnish Association of Girl Guides, .... Finn ish marks, 1,000,000Freedom from Hunger Campaign, U.K,. Pounds Sterling, 31,680Futures for Children, U.S.A .... , ,V.S. dollarsMr. and Mrs. F. M. Gilliat, D.S.A U.S. dollarsW. E. Golcher, U.K. Pounds sterling, 180Miss M. Elizabeth Gow, Ll.K, Pounds sterling, 360Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Henderson, Canada. Canadian dollars, 2,500Alan Henderson, Canada .. , Canadian dollars, 1,000International Confederation of Free

Trade Unions, Belgium, U.S. dollarsIrish Red Cross U.5. dollarsLady Knight, U.K." . , , .. , Pounds sterling, 5.5.-Dr. joseph E. J ohnson, U.S.A U.S, dollarsW. S. May, U.K. , .. , , Pounds sterling, 180MISEREOR, Federal Republic of Ger-

many. , . , , . , German marks, 200,000Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A , D.S. dollarsNAJDA, American Women for the Mid-

dle East U.S. dollarsNew Zealand Council of Organizations~ for Relief Overseas (CORSO) , .Pounds sterling, 2,265Ottinger Foundation, Inc., U.S.A D.S, dollars

33

5,000

4,818

3,056

10,0002,240

28,00023,1253,905

1,000

1,500 1,000560

490

68 236500504

1,0082,376

951

1,000626

15400504

150

500

6,3421,000

5,000

2,897

1,662

3,170

12,09614,00023,125

14,000

11,224

5003,125

88,704

50,000350

500

5,000

5,000

2,897

3,056

1,662

3,17010,000

2,240

12,09642,00046,250

3,90514,000

1,000560

11,224490500

3,12588,704

2,,6500504

1,0082,376

951

1,000

15400504

50,000350

1,000

1,000

500 500

34

----,--.

Notes: (1) Virtually all locally recruited staff are refugees. (2). The over-all increase of about5:5 per ce?t between 1960 and 1961 is almost entirely due to the expansion of the Agency's voca­tional training programme, including the construction of vocational training centres.

504

500

Tolal

5,632,809

1,870,134208,333

2,489,6411,045,397

19,304

504

500

For 1963

Receipts Pledges Total

33,600 33,600

140 14010,075 10,075

504 5041,323 1,323

8,012 8,012504 504504 504196 196

1,498 1,498

1,005 1,000 2,0051,000 1,000

1

1,008 1,0081,400 1,400

500 500

128,504 244,264 432,961 677,225 8,047 743,689 751,736

provided by the host Governments is increased by reason ofutilization of these services by refugees.

All data shown are based upon information provided by theGovernments concerned, and are expressed in dollars computedby applying the Agency's accounting rates of exchange, whicharebased on official or free market rates as appropriate.

d In addition to these special contributions, the United StatesGovernment has increased its regular contribution for its fiscalyear ended 30 June 1962, by $1,700,000, the increase being ear­marked by it for the Agency's vocational training programme. Asimilar increase is intended for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1963.

Rteeived in For 19621961

and prior:;ears Receipts Pledges TotalD"cription

Locally recruited staff International slaff

Seconded

Monthly Doil:;and loaned from. a/her

U nited Nations GraHdYea, paid paid Total UNRWA organs Total total

31 December 1960..... 6,958 3,745 10,703 126 20 146 10,84931 December 1961. .... 7,388 3,907 11,295 136 28 164 11,459

Contributor

Oxford Committee for Famine Relief,U.K. Pounds sterling, 12,000

Oxford University Refugee Committee,U.K. Pounds sterling, 50

David Rockefeller, U.SA U.S. dollarsMiss M. Rogers, U.K Pounds sterling, 180Swedish Red Cross SuIfamides and vitaminsSwedish Save the Children Fund Swedish crowns, 41,500Miss Catherine Symonds, U.K. Pounds sterling, 180Theosophical Order of Service, U.K. Pounds sterling, 360Trustees of Princeton University, U.S.A.U.S. dollarsUnited Nations Association of Great

Britain and Northern Ireland Pounds sterling, 5,535 14,000United Nations Staff Fund for Refugees,

Switzerland Swiss francs, 4,320 and U.S.dollars 1,000

United Steel Workers of America U.S. dollarsU.S. Omen, U.S.A.· Medical suppliesVictorian Division of the United Nations

Association of Australia Australian pounds, 450War on Want, U.K. Pounds sterling, 500Zonta Clubs, North European Area U.s. dollars

Table 30

DIRECT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GOVERNMENTS TO REFUGEES' FORTHE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1962(In V.S. dollars)

• The contributions shown in this table are included in tables26 and 27 and are not additional thereto.

b Negotiations are in progress with the Swedish Governmentwhich will result in a contribution to the Vocational Trainingprogramme of at least $700,000.

e Nominal value only.

UNRWA PERSONNELTable 31

STAFF EMPLOYED DY UNRWA AT31 DECEMBER 1960 AND AT 31 DECEMBER 1961

Table 29 (continued)

STATEMENT OFEXTRA-BUDGETARY FUNDS RECEIVED OR PLEDGED FORTHE VOCATIONALTRAINING SCHOLARSHIP FUND AND RELATED PURPOSES AS AT 30 JUNE 1962 •

(In V.S. dollars)

• In addition to the foregoing contributions direct to the refu­gees all Governments listed also made contributions to UNRWAfor the latter's budget. These contributions are reported in theAgency's own accounts and are set out in tables 26 and 27. It isalso to be noted that UNRWA (and, in some cases, voluntaryagencies working with the refugees) enjoy exemption from cus­toms duties and taxes. In addition, the cost of the normal services

SocialEducation welfare Medical Securit:; Miscellaneous Admi'Histrati1le

Contributor services services urvias Housing services services costs

Jordan •.................. 1,016,387 228,Q93 489,154 94,500 42,000Lebanon .................. 33,333 25,000 150,000Syrian Arab Republic ...... 430,556 254,167 198,906 951,389 277,778 93,512 283,333United Arab Republic ...... 627,176 248,801 44,037 104,512 20,871France .....•....•........ 19,304

2,126,756 731,061 757,097 951,389 476,790 156,383 433,333

F

Part IT

BUDGET FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1963

A. Introduction

117. The Agency's 1963 budget covers the final yearof the three-year plan set forth by the Commissioner­General in his report for 1959-1960.5 Since the GeneralAss~l11bly has not yet ~eso1ved the question of an ex­tension of the Agency s rnandate, the estimates havebeen divided into two to show the estimated cost of theAgency's planned operations for the first half of theyear (i.e. to 30 June 1963) and again similarly for thesecond half (from 1 July to 31 December 1963). Forthe ye.ar the total estimated expenditure is $39,633,000,of which $26,300,000 are for relief services, $12,533,000for the expanded programme in education and technicaltraining and $0.8 million for operational reserve. Inthe event that the Agency's mandate is not extendedbeyond 30 June 1963, only the first half-year estimateswould apply.

118. In preparing its 1963 budget, the Agency hashad to recognize that little or no progress has been madein solving the political aspects of the Palestine refugeeproblem, and that the total relief needs of the refugeeswill probably be about the same as in 1962, while therequirements for education and technical training willbe considerably greater. The Agency proposes to holdrelief expenditures at the same level as in 1961, whileproviding for increased enrolment in elementary andsecondary schools and the completion of its three-yearplan of expansion in technical education.

119. The revised estimates of expenditure for 1962are also given in this presentation of the Agency's 1963budget to provide a realistic basis of comparison. Theoriginal 1962 budget called for $39.2 million, including$27.4 million for relief services, $11 million for educa­tion, technical training- and individual assistance and$0.8 million for operational reserve. Unexpectedlyfavourable basic commodity prices, however, now prom­ise to save the Agency more than $1 million under reliefservices and certain other minor items have been re­duced 0; deferred within the relief programmeto permitfurther savings. Total estimated expenditure in educa­tion, technical training and individual assistance for1962 is about the same as in the original budget.

120. The Agency does not intend to reduce the p~rcapita relief for eligible and needy refugees, although Itdoes propose to hold total relief expenditure in 1963 tothe 1962 level ($26.3 million), provided baSIC commod­ity prices remain substantially at 19621evels.

121. In the programme of .general (elementary ~ndsecondary) education, there WIll be con~1l1ued expat;SI~nin 1963, as increasing numbers of children remam III

school throughout the elementary and preparatorycycles. Because of lack of funds few improvements areprovided for, although many ought to be .made, par­ticularly in classroom occupancy, expansion of themanual skills programme, the development of home

G A/4478, paras. 18-44.

3S

economics training and the provision of facilities forSCIence laboratory training.

12.2. The 196~ budget provides for only limited ex­pansion of technical training facilities (one new unit illLebanon an~ one m Gaza)-the major increase being- to~ov~r operating costs necessitated by the increased util­ization of the training capacity of established centres asseco~d-year class.es are added. The programme of uni­versity scholarships will also remain at about the 1962level.

1.23. Since pr0l:!ress it; utilizing funds for individualassistance or specl~1 projects I:~s been slow during thepast year, there IS no prOVISIon for increasing theamount available for this purpose.

124..Paragraphs 12~ to 159 below pr~sent by generalcategories the 1963 estimates of expenditure, as well asthe revised estimates for 1962. The problem of financingthe 1963 budget is discussed in paragraphs 160 to 164.Taking into account expected income from othersources, the Commissioner-General urges contributingGovernments, 111 the event that the Agency's mandate isextended beyond 30 June 1963, to increase their contri­butions from the estimated 1962 level of $33.6 millionto $36.7 million for 1963. The Agency emphasizes thatthis level of contributions is essential if the programmeof general and technical education, so necessary to thefuture of the refugees, is to be maintained.

B. Estimates of expenditure

GENERAL

125. The Agency's estimates for expenditure in 1963,divided between the two half years as explained above,are summarized in the following table:

BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 1963(Expressed in thousands of U.S. dollars)

1963 budget 1962estimal,d

1st 2nd .xpend;-Ac/laily half·year half·year To/al tur~

Part I. Relief services5,762 11,Sn 11,420Basic subsistence .......... 5,761

Supplemen tary feeding ..... 726 727 1,453 1.461

Health care ............... 1,561 1,561 3,122 :\,099

Environmental sanitation ... 476 477 953 961

Shelter (including roads and348 348 696 734camp improvements) .....

Social welfare ............. 357 358 715 708

Placernen t services ......... 77 78 155 202

Eligibility and registration .. 165 166 331 295

Transport within the1,480 1,480 2,960 2,971UNRWA area ...........

Supply control and ware-752

housing................. 349 350 699

Internal services ........... 1,255 1,255 2,510 2,522

General administration and591 592 1,183 1,175

liaison ............ , .....

TOTAL OF PART I 13,146 13,154 26,300 26,300

T;ype of ralio» Calories per day T;ype of beneficiary

0) Combined whole /skim milk ......... 256 Babies 6 months to one year, andcertain others

(ii) Skim milk ........................ 125 Children aged 1-15Nursing mothersPregnant women

One hot meal six days per week .....Special medical cases

(iii) 600/700 Special cases medically certified tobe in need of extra food

(iv) Special ration of flour, rice, etc...... 500 Nursing mothersPregnant women

(v) Special ration of flour, rice, etc...... 1,500/1,600 Non-hospitalized tuberculosis cases(vi) Vitamin capsules ................ " School and other children

GRAND TOTAL 19,812 19,82t 39,633 37,435

Quantil;Y

150 grammes per monthOne per beneficiary every

three years1 litre per month for five

winter months in Gaza.1.5 litres per month for five

winter months in Leba­non, Syrian Arab Repub­lic and Jordan

1,500 calories per day insummer and 1,600 caloriesper da y in winter

(iv) Kerosene

(i) Basic food ration (consist­ing of dry food commod­ities-flour, rice, pulses,sugar, cooking oil etc.)

(ii) Soap(Hi) Blankets

127. Basic commodity expenditures in 1963 havebeen estimated as carefully as possible, using prices onlyslightly higher than the unusually low prices which haveprevailed in the first half of 1962. Normal salary in­creases and related adjustments also tend to increasethe pressure on costs. Certain economies in quality con­trol and ration distribution are expected to offset partof these increased costs, leaving a net estimate for basicsubsistence that is $103,000 above the revised estimatefor 1962.

SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget ... $ 726,500 $ 726,500 $ 1,453,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture .... $ 1,461,000

128. Provisions in 1963 are limited to providing thefollowing supplements to the basic ration for vulnerablecategories:

19~Z

utimatede>:pendi.

lure

4,565 9,130 7,989

1,702 3,403 2,968178

6,267 12,533 11,135

19,421 38,833 37,435

400 800

BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 1963 (continued)

SUD-TOTAL OF PARTS I AND II 19,412

Part IlI. Operatiol1alReserve 400

1$1 2ndAdi.it;y half..;year half·year Total

TOTAL OF PART II 6,266

Part 11. Education, technicaltraining and individllal assist­anceElementary and secondary

education. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4,565Vocational and university

education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,701Projects and special activities

1903 b"dgel

BASIC SUBSISTENCE

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget ... $5,761,500 $5,761,500 $11,523,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture .... $11,420,000

126. Basic subsistence continues to require the largestappropriation of Agency funds. The budget covers costsof basic commodities CIF Agency ports of entry, qualitycontrol, and distribution at all distribution centres.Transport within the area and warehousing, however,are budgeted separately. The per capita scale of distri­bution, which remains unchanged from that of 1962,comprises:

These estimates include the costs of the necessaryfood items, preparing and serving the supplementaryhot meals, reconstituting the dried milk powder anddistributing the liquid milk. (Transport within the areaand warehousing, however, are budgeted separately.)

129. Formerly only whole milk was provided for allbabies up to one year of age. Following a study of thenutrition needs of this age group, it was decided during1962 to alter this ration to a mixture of whole and skimmilk and to provide it only for babies aged 6 months toone year and to babies under 6 months who are notbreast-fed. The new ration provides slightly less fat and

considerably more calcium and protein than the oldration and costs considerably less.

130. Economies resulting from this modification ofthe milk programme are estimated at approximately$60,000 in 1963. Part of this saving is to be utilized forincreasing the number of recipients of the supple­mentary hot meal from 47,400 to 50,000 and part toimprove sub-standard feeding centres. Even allowingfor normal staff cost increases and other adjustment,the budget for this item is slightly smaller for 1963than for 1962.

36

$ 734,000

$ 961,000

133. "Environmental sanitation" includes surfacewate; drainage, refuse and sewage disposal, water sup­ply, insect and rodent control, ancillary camp facilities(such as bath-houses, incinerators and slaughter houses)and basic sanitation services in villages of the GazaStrip, where refugees comprise 70 per cent of the in­?abltants. These services will be provided for approx­imately 478,000 refugees officially accommodated incamps and for a further 40,000 "squatters" on the out­skirts of organized UNRWA camps.

134. Provision is being made for sanitation servicesfor an increased camp population (from approximately465,000 at the end of 1962 to approximately 478,000 atthe end of 1963), a sewage system at Horns (Syrian~rab Republic), essential improvements in water supply.(m Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza) and normal staff costincreases. On balance, the 1963 budget is $8,000 lessthan estimated expenditure in 1962, principally becauseof a reduction in capital construction.

SHELTER

HEALTH CARE

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $1,561,000 $1,561,000 $3,1220001962 Estimated '

expendi-ture ..... $3,099,000

131. The total health care programme provides ex­tensive services for almost a million persons throughthe operation of general clinics, hospitals and labora­tories, and dental treatment, maternal and child caretuberculosis control, mental health care, school healthservice, health education, epidemiological measures, pre­ventive medicine services and other necessary healthmeasures and precautions. Although the health carebudget is large, it represents only about 26 U.S. centsper person per month; even when the costs of the sup­plementary feeding programme and of environmentalsanitation have been added, the total budget for healthservices only reaches 45 cents per person per month.The efficacy of the service may be inferred from thefreedom from serious epidemics or other health catas­trophes which has prevailed during more than twelveyears, despite the adverse conditions under which therefugees live.

132. The net increase of $23,000 in the total healthcare budget for 1963 includes only normal staff cost in­creases and essential in-service training to maintainreasonably efficient service. The increase is partiallyoffset by the omission of provision for either construc­tion or replacement of clinics or maternity centres.

ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION

)

Total715,000

$ 708.000

SOCIAL WELFARE

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year

1963 Budget .... $ 357,500 s 357,000 $1962 Estimated

expendi­ture .....

PLACEMENT SERVICES

lst 2ndhalf-vear half-veer Total

1963 Budget .... $ 77,500 $ 77,500 $ 155,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $ 202,000

137. These estimates include the costs of all welfareactivities. The largest single item is transport and distri­bution of used clothing donated for refugees by volun­tary organizations. Welfare activities also include case:vor~ a~l1ong individuals,.burial grants. aid to religiousinstitutions and community projects ill refugee campsand villages. Community projects have received increas­ing emphasis in recent years, especially crafts trainingfor adults and youth activities designed to combat idle­ness and stimulate self reliance. The net increase of$7,000 for 1963 is required to meet the increase innormal staff costs.

13.5. The s~elter programme includes construction,repair and matnt~nance. of shelter provided f?r r~fugeesby the Agency (1l1c1udll1g grants in cash or 111 kind forroofing to refugees who construct their own shelter),the costs of .allocating and controlling the use of shelterand otl~erwlse administering the programme, and theexpenditures for construction, repair and maintenanceof roads and paths, and associated drainage facilities.

136. The budget item for shelter constrtlction in 1963amounts to $400,000 out of the total of $696,000. Thisr~p~esents a reduction of $50,000 as compared with thesimilar provision for 1962 and provides only for themore urg~nt cases of social changes within existingcamps, assistance for destitute cases and the limited re­placement of the worst of the present sub-standard?helters and "squatters" huts in the precincts of organ­ized camps (especially in Jordan). Some provision alsohas been made for necessary additional roads in existingand expanded camps, the maintenance of old roads, andnormal staff cost increases. On balance the budget for1963 is $38,000 below that of 1962.

138. This service assists those qualified refugees whoapply for help to find suitable employment. It also pro­vides grants for subsistence and travel to refugees whorequest it after having obtained for themselves validtravel documents and proof of employment in otherlocalities.

139. The net reduction of $47,000 is due to twofactors: a decrease in the number of cases of assistedemigration and the fact that it will not be necessary in1963 to repeat the provision this year for a. special sur­vey of employment prospects for graduates from theAgency's training centres.

Total953,000

Total696,000

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year

1963 Budget .... $ 476,500 $ 476,500 $1962 Estimated

expendi­ture .....

1st 2ndhalf-yellr halj-yeot'

1963 Budget .... $ 348,000 $ 348,000 $1962 Estimated

expendi­ture .....

37

$ 295,000

38

TRANSPORT WITHIN THE UNRWA AREA

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget ....$1,480,000 $1,480,000 $2,960,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $2,971,000

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

1st 211dhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $4.565,000 $4.565,000 $9,130,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $7,989,000

INTERNAL SERVICES

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $1,255,000 $1,255,000 $2,510,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $2,522,000

146. Internal services include those Agency-widefunctions and services essential to proper operationi.e., administration, personnel, translation, procurement'legal, finance and mechanized records, protection andsecurity, public information, technical and statistiCalservices. Principally, staff costs are involved. (In 1962these estimates were combined with those for generaladministration and liaison. For 1963 the latter are shownseparately in order to provide more detailed and preciseinformation on Agency operations and administration.)

147. Although the normal staff increases and the ne­cessity of additional office space for education and train­ing personnel have added slightly to the 1963 budget,these have been more than offset by projected reductionof staff in internal services.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND LIAISON

Lst 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $ 591,500 $ 591,500 $1,183,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $1,175,000

148. Under this heading provision is made for thegeneral administration of both headquarters and fieldoffices and the direction of operations through fieldofficeareas and camps, as well as for liaison offices in NewYork and Geneva and the office of the Agency's repre­sentative in Cairo.

149. Normal staff cost increases have been largelyoffset by expected staff reductions, so that the net in­crease is only $8,000.

150. These estimates cover the costs of elementaryschooling (6 years) and preparatory schooling (3 years,except in Lebanon where it is 4 years) for Virtually alleligible refugee children requesting assistance, and 3further years of secondary schooling for a limited num­ber of children selected on merit.

1.51. The school population in 1963, which f?rms thebasis for budget estimates in general education, I? shownin the following tables, together with comparative datafor other years:

Total331,000

ELIGIIlILITY AND REGISTRATION

Lst 2ndhalf-year half-year

1963 Budget .... $ 165,500 $ 165,500 $1962 Estimated

expendi­ture .....

140. Eligibility and. regis~r~t!~n activitie~ include in­vestigations to determine ehgtbl~lty an? maintenance ofrecords with respect to changes 111 family status by .rea­son of births, marriages, or deaths ;.changes o~ location;transfers to other categories of entitlement .wIth respectto rations or service benefits; and systematic checks oneligibility rolls as a means of keeping them as accurateas possible.

141. For 1963 provision has been made not only fornormal staff cost increases but also for added staff,equipment and operations which are essential for recti­fying the ration rolls.

142. The Agency's transport system covers bothpassenger and freight movements by road, rail, sea orair within the UNRW A 'area (whether by Agency­owned vehicles or hired transport), including relatedcosts of loading, unloading and insurance, as well asport operations and the essential replacement of ve­hicles.

143. Despite normal staff cost increases, a small de­crease in the total is anticipated in 1963, principally be­cause of savings on vehicle maintenance, on transportservices between Beirut and Jordan, and on port storagecosts on goods destined for Syria as a result of construc­tion of a new UNRWA warehouse in the Syrian ArabRepublic in 1962.

SUPPLY CONTROL AND WAREHOUSING

Lst 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $ 349,500 $ 349,500 $ 699,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $ 752,000

.144. This heading COvers receiving, warehousing, is­sUIng of all Agency supplies, and the administrativeprocedures necessary to the control of inventories.

145. Two factors account for a net reduction of$53,000 in the 1963 estimates, even taking into accountnormal staff increases, viz., the provision in 1962 of anew UNRWA warehouse that will reduce rentals in theSyrian Arab Republic and a reduction in 1963 in othernew warehousing construction.

• This table shows the total in (1) UNRWA, (2) Governmentand (3) private schools for all three cycles combined.

UNRWA ................... 137,137 155,191 172,656Government. ............... 38,832 42,241 45,054Private ..................... 20,331 18,726 19,538

TOTAL 196,300 216,158 237,248

154. The Agency provides vocational training in in­dustrial, commercial and agricultural subjects as well asteacher training, for an increasing number of youngrefugee men and women, and university scholarships fora limited number who are qualified for study in medi-

Capacity ntilirtd, 1963

Trainl"g in UNRWA centres1.1 2"d

half half

(i) Kalandia Vocational Training Centre..... 344, 392(li) Wadi Seer Vocational Training Centre.... 404 396

(Hi) Ramallah Men's Teacher-Training Centre. 300 400(iv) Ramallah Girls' Vocational Training Cen-

tre/Teacher-Training Centre ... " ..... 294 538"(v) Damascus Vocational Training Centre .... 376 392

(vi) Horns Vocational Training Centre ........ 144 276"(vii) Gaza Vocational Training Centre ........ 276 3611

(viii) Beit Hanoun Training Centre .. '" ....... 108 75(ix) Khan Younis Vocational Training Centre. 80(x) Siblin Vocational Training Centre ... '" .. 288 396"

(xi) Siblin Technical & Teacher-Training Insti-tute ................................ 157"

ci~e, dentistry, and kinds of engineering needed in theMiddle East. Vocational training is largely conducted inthe Agency's own centres and .teacher training in boththe UNRWA centres and in government institutions.University scholarships are awarded only in institutionswithin the Middle East, in the interest of helping asmany individuals as possible with the limited fundsavailable.

155. The whole programme of vocational and teacher­training expansion envisaged in the three-year plan hasbeen made possible by special funds from the WorldRefugee Year and related sources. By the end of 1962,the A!5ency expects to have in operation or under con­struction eleven trades and teacher training centres,two more than originally scheduled. Expected utilizationof these centres in 1963 is shown in the following table:

TOTAL 2,534 3,470

156. Concurrently during 1963, teacher training andtrades training outside UNRWA centres is proposedfor the following numbers:

• These centres willnot be at full capacity until 1964 /65 schoolyear.

N umb.r of Ira~neesin 1963

Is/ Z..dTraining outsi de UNRWA ceutres half half

(i) Teacher training-Gaza Training Centre .. 240 360(ii) Teacher training-Cairo Teacher-Training

Centre ............................. 60 90(iii) Commercial/secretarial training ......... 30 30(iv) "On-the-Job" and industrial training

(United Arab Republic and Sweden) ... 389 277(v) Nursing and pharmacist training......... 33 51

TOTAL 752 808

Concurrently, also, in university education, it is pro­posed to bring the total number of scholarships up tothe level of 500.

157. While in such a rapidly expanding programme,comparisons with the preceding year are not particularlymeaningful, the summary figures covering expendituresfor vocational and teacher training will illustrate howthe budget has grown and how the distribution of ex­penditure between capital 'and operating costs haschanged:

39

88612,5002,360

15,746

38,0459,0072,680

49,732

133,72523,54714,498

171,770

1963-1964

1963-1964

1963-1964

1961-1962 1962-1963 1963-1964

Total m/mber of pnpils in elementary,preparatory and se,o,~dar1 schoou»

Schools

VOCATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

1st 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget .... $1,701,500 $1,701,500 $3,403,0001962 Estimated

expendi-ture ..... $2,968,000

152. Of the total estimated increase of $1,141,000 in1963 over 1962, a sum of $716,000 is required to providefor the growth in school population (larger numbers ofclassrooms and teachers, provision of books and sup­plies), normal increases in staff costs and the balancefor improvements in education and adjustments in sub­sidies paid to host Governments and private schools forthe services they render.

153. The budget does not provide for a number ofbasic improvements which were included in the originalthree-year plan (particularly reduction in rate of class­room occupancy, many of which are extremely over­crowded), because the Agency feels that it must givepriority to accommodating the increased population atexisting standards.

Eleme.nlary

Schools 1961-1962 1962-1963

UNRWA ................... 110,439 123,087Government ................ 21,428 23,373Private ..................... 13,302 13,546

TOTAL 145,169 160,006

Preparalory

Schools 1961-1962 1962-1963

UNRWA................... 25,823 31,218Government ................ 6,215 7,468Private ..................... 4,174 2,820

TOTAL 36,212 41,506

Secondary

Schools 1961-1962 1962-1963

UNRWA .. ................. 875 886Government ................ 11,189 11,400Private ..................... 2,855 2,360

TOTAL 14,919 14,646

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a"d e",penditu.. 1963T"pe of cost commitmenls (In thousonds of U.S. dollars) budgel

Capital costs .... 3,613 534 32Operating costs.. 1,433 2,434 3,371

TOTAL 5,046 2,968 3,403

$ 178,000

Ist 2ndholf-year half-yea" Total

(Expressed in millions of U.S. dollars)

19.8 19.8 39.6

0.45 0.45 0.9

0.6 0.6 1.2

0.4 0.4 0.8- - -1.45 1.45 2.9

18.35 18.35 36.7

Total budget (including theoperational reserve of $0.8million) .

Deduct:Miscellaneous regular in-

come .Special income from voca­

tional and teacher-train­ing scholarships and re­lated sources. . . . . . . . . . .

To be taken from workingcapital if operational re­serve requires to be used.

TOTAL DEDUCTIONS

Balance requested to be con­tributed by Governments ..

Totalnil$

PROJECTS AND INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE

1st 211dhalf-year half-year

nil $ nil1963 Budget .... $1962 Estimated

expendi­ture .....

158. For the time being no budgetary provision isbeing made for this purpose in the 1963 budget, pendingfurther examination of projects now under considera­tion; but a sum of $165,000 has been specifically ear­marked for future expenditure on individual assistancein the Agency's working capital carried forward in1963.

OPERATIONAL RESERVE

lst 2ndhalf-year half-year Total

1963 Budget ....$ 400,000 $ 400,000 $ 800,0001962 Original pro-

vision $ 800,000

159. For operational contingencies inherent inUNRWA activities and for those emergencies which theAgency has suffered in most years of its history, a pro­vision has been made in 1963 of $800,000 (as in formeryears). This is almost precisely 2 per cent of the totalbudget and is considered the minimum margin in viewof possible changes in prices of items the Agency mustbuy.

c. Financing the 1963 budget

160. Although the 1963 budget totals $39.6 million,the Agency is requesting regular contributions totallingonly $36.7 million, on the assumption that it will find itpossible to make up the balance from miscellaneousregular income, from special income associated with theVocational Training Scholarships Fund, and fromworking capital.

161. A summary of the Agency's requirements andexpected sources of funds follows:

162. "Miscellaneous regular income" is composedabout equally of miscellaneous contributions from non­governmental sources and income from the Agency'sown operations (bank interest, sale of empty containers,etc.). In 1961 such income totalled about $1.6 million.However, some $0.7 million of this had only a papervalue because the "gain on exchange" related to use inthe Agency's accounts of the official exchange for theEgyptian pound; this was offset by an equal amount inthe expenditure accounts. (For the years 1962 and 1963the special market rate applicable to Egyptian poundshas been used for both expenditure and income accounts,so that both expenditure and income are more accurate­ly presented in terms of actual dollar valuations.)

163. The "special income from vocational and teach­er-training scholarships and related sources" shown inthe budget represents the final part of the approximately$7 million the Commissioner-General has undertaken toraise from sources other than regular government con­tributions during the three-year plan. Of this $7 million,some $5.5 million had actually been received or pledgedby 30 June 1962, and the Commissioner-General hascommitted himself to raising the balance by mid-1963.However, he feels that this represents very nearly thelimit of achievement in this area of fund raising.

164. Regular government contributions are requestedin the amount of $36.7 million. This is $3.1 million morethan has been pledged for 1962; an increase of about9 per cent. The Agency feels that its budget for 1963is essentially a minimum budget-Relief Services havebeen kept at the same low level of 1962, and increasesin general education have been limited to those necessaryto provide for population increases plus a few pressingimprovements in standards which are essential if theAgency's educational programme is to keep pace withthe trends within the host Governments. The funds pro­vided for vocational and teacher training and for uni­versity scholarships, while large compared to previousexpenditures by the Agency, are sufficient to providethe opportunity of this kind of training to less than 10per cent of the young persons who mature each year.

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DAMASCUSIKhan Eshoh .,205\ ~S09 14,6.9Khan Donoun 1,704

~oirob 59521NORTH Khan A~u aok.r I ' 6,617 5,894

uorcntine 665

toms city 4,103

1 6,166 2,655 II-bms Harrll Homo 2,063 ISOUTH IDuo'a 1,.62\ 1,462 17,236

TOTAL 20,15. 100,423

FAMILIES ',416 23,668

VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES 2

ADULT TRAINING CENTRES 11

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JORDANNonRefugQe Population 1(118,500Registrzrod Rffug~@s 633,197

AREA CAMPS NOT IN CAMPS

root Hussein 16351 1AMMAN Amman Now Comp 16556 39093 102,5OB

Zorl<o 61~6

IRBED Ilrbod camp 10 390110390 38,527

Askar 3519Bolalo 9043

NABLUS Forb &903N'1 2765 40917 105,400Nur_Shams 3976Tulkarem 7526.k!nin 7265

\!>Qabat jab er 304351JERICHO Ein Sultan 19433 772$ 26/968

NuwC!lmQh 6071 r"Karomeh 21 346

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Mari 3125JERUSA. Deir Anvnar 2156 19693 80,966

JalazonQ .372KaLandia 3590

Dbeisheh 619.Aide 1591

HEBRON Boil Djlbrin 1109 21377 71,rtl'FOY.'Wor 5121Arroub 7373

TOTAL 207755 425,442

FAMILIES 39161 111,916

VOCATIONAL f<,"TEACHER TRAINING CEN"TRES 4

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LEBANONtb'l Refugee Population 1/708(000Rogisl.rod Rofug ••s H2,670

AREA CAMPS NOTIN CAMPS

BEIRU"T IMor Elios --;;;sr- ~35 22,831

Burj ol!3araJnoh 4,022Shot iLo 2.135

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Noboti.h 3,236

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Burj ot Shumul! 5,311

TRIPOLI \l-bhr El Bored 8,21'1 12,62Boddawl ',248'

1-1-1962

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GAZA

Non Refugll~ Population 125,700

Regtater-ed RllfugoQS 265,.30

AREA ~ NOTIN CAMPS

DElR EL IDoir Et BolDh 6,822BALAH Moghozi 8,135

~~~~S IKhan vunrs 2~519

NUSE1RA~usS~.irat 16,606162,160 102,670

BurelJ 11,546

RAFAH Iaotof 39.620

RIMAL \6020 Beocb 2~918

JABALlA!Jcbal,o 31,59'

TOTAL 162,160 102,610

FAMILIES 29,221 20,335

VOCATIONAL "TRAINING CENTRES 1

AGRICULTURAL TRAINING CENTRES 1

ADULT TRAINING CENTRES 15

MAPAREA OF

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REFUGEES REGISTERED WITH UNRWA

COUNTRY ~ NOT IN CAMPS lQI&.

Gp;zA 162,760 102,670 265,430

JORDAN 207,755 "25(4 l. 2 633,197

LEBANON 63,210 79/460 H2,610

ISYRIA 20/154 100,423 120,577

~t TOTAL 453,B79 707,995 1,161,~74

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