{"id":195622,"date":"2012-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195622"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:02:47","slug":"auto-insert-195622","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195622\/","title":{"rendered":"Social assistance in the OPT – EU Development and Cooperation-EuropeAid paper\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social cohesion<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Social assistance in the occupied Palestinian territory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Support to vulnerable families through the EU's PEGASE mechanism<\/p><\/div>\n

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EC Partners<\/p><\/div>\n

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Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n

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Palestinian Ministry of Finance<\/p><\/div>\n

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Facts and Figures <\/p><\/div>\n

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EC contribution: €74 million<\/p><\/div>\n

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Duration: 2008-2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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35% of Palestinian households live under the official poverty line<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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“<\/i>The social allowance provided by the EU is the only regular source of income for my family. I have six children, and two of them are mentally ill. One of my daughters is divorced and she lives with us with her son. The social allowance enables us to meet our basic needs, and we thank the EU for this help<\/i>.”<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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Husni Mustafa Ridan, beneficiary of the social allowances programme<\/p><\/div>\n

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Context <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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As a result of the political and economic context in the occupied Palestinian territory, an increasing number of households have low, irregular or no income and are financially dependent on the Palestinian Authority's (PA) cash support programme, the “Social Hardship Case” (SHC). Through the PEGASE mechanism, the EU contributes to the SHC programme, to provide poor families with basic assistance in these difficult times.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Objective<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n