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<p>The amount of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds to the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 2015 and 2016 is given in the table below. This
data is published each year in the Statistics on International Development (SID) publication.
Figures for 2017 will be released next year.</p><p>The UK is unequivocally committed
to supporting Palestinian refugees across the region. Over the course of the 2017/18
financial year, the UK provided around £50 million to the UN Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA), assisting in their provision of essential services including basic education
to around 500,000 children, health services for around 3 million Palestinian refugees
and supporting Palestinian refugees from Syria.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(£
millions)</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bilateral
ODA through Multilateral</p></td><td><p>30.0</p></td><td><p>21.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core
Multilateral ODA</p></td><td><p>34.0</p></td><td><p>33.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
UK ODA to UNRWA</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>64.0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54.4</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:
Statistics for International Development 2013-2016</em></p><p> </p><p>ODA figures
are produced only on a calendar year basis in line with the Organisation for Economic
Development and Cooperation, Development Assistance Committee definitions.</p><p>Bilateral
ODA through multilateral is funding to multilateral organisations for specific programmes
or for specific countries. In this case, bilateral ODA through multilateral refers
UK contributions to UNRWA’s Emergency Appeals. Core multilateral ODA describes un-earmarked
funds from the UK which are pooled with other donors’ funding and disbursed as part
of the core budget of the multilateral organisation, which is UNRWA’s Programme Budget
in this case.</p>
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