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5.3 Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction Implementation Unit
Given the breadth and complexity of activities that will be required for the response –touching all sectors, all geographical areas,
and involving direct support to at least a quarter of the population - a new Implementation unit will be established to drive
implementation. The Unit will report to the Higher Inter-Ministerial Committee and work closely with Government ministries
and agencies, as well as the international community, civil society, and private sector, to ensure the execution of the priority
recovery and reconstruction interventions in this Plan.
In the immediate period, the Unit will work to support ministries, agencies, and municipalities with effective prioritization,
detailed planning, and setting targets for the recovery and reconstruction efforts. Thereafter, the Unit will play an active role in
obtaining regular status reports on the priority interventions under the Plan from the ministries, identifying challenges in their
implementation, and strengthening co-ordination between sectors as well as ministries.
The Unit will provide monthly status reports to the Council of Ministers through the Inter-Ministerial Committee during the first
six months of recovery reconstruction, and move to a quarterly reporting basis in thereafter. The reports will focus on progress
of the most critical elements of the Plan and recommendations regarding accelerating implementation. The Unit will also work
with ministries and agencies to ensure that decisions from the Council of Ministers are rapidly implemented.
5.4 Detailed Damage Assessments and Action Planning at Sector
and Municipality Level
This plan forms the skeleton of the recovery effort and is based on an initial assessment of the impact of the Israeli assault.
Effective implementation will require significant further work in terms of detailed diagnosis, planning, and programming of
specific response interventions in each sector.
Detailed Damage and Needs Assessments are currently underway through Government ministries and agencies,
overseen by the Technical Committee, and with the support of the UN, the World Bank, and the EU. These will form the
basis of detailed intervention planning for early recovery. The assessments will include baseline GIS data regarding all
facilities which were damaged.
Detailed Action Planning will follow the finalization of the damage assessments, and will be undertaken at the sector levels in
collaboration with national partners. It is expected that this process will validate many of the high level recommendations of this
report and develop them further into specific projects and interventions. It will also propose additional measures to respond to
the breadth of damage and needs as they become better understood.
The detailed action planning process will be completed in 2014. The output of this process will be a series of sector and
municipality action plans, which will be consolidated into a Recovery and Rehabilitation Implementation Strategy. This ongoing
planning process will not hinder on-going and immediate implementation of immediate humanitarian measures and early
recovery interventions. These will be ongoing throughout.
The sector plans and interventions will be underpinned by a clear Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which will capture
goals, objectives, outputs and outcomes in each sector and intervention. These will also be linked to the budget and financial
inputs required for delivery.
Results monitoring at the sector level will be the primarily responsibility of line ministries/concerned budget entities, in
cooperation with national and international partners. MOPAD’s Monitoring and Evaluation department will compile sector level
data into quarterly monitoring reports of the Plan. Financial input and results reports will be accessible on the MOPAD website
and will be discussed by the Plan’s management structure as a tool for evidence-based decision making.