National Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza 2014-2017_FINAL...
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State of Palestine<br />
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />
This document was prepared by the Palestinian Government’s Higher Inter-Ministerial Committee <strong>for</strong> <strong>Gaza</strong> <strong>Recovery</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Reconstruction</strong>, supported by the Inter-Governmental Technical Committee.<br />
This <strong>Plan</strong> will be used to consolidate resources <strong>and</strong> responses to help the Palestinian people in <strong>Gaza</strong> rebuild their lives <strong>and</strong><br />
livelihoods. As such, it <strong>for</strong>ms the basis <strong>for</strong> mobilizing resources <strong>and</strong> ef<strong>for</strong>ts at the international conference in Cairo, Egypt on<br />
October 12, <strong>2014</strong> <strong>and</strong> provides the guiding framework <strong>for</strong> all relief, early recovery, <strong>and</strong> reconstruction interventions.<br />
The Government would like to express its appreciation to the institutions that contributed to the development of this plan <strong>and</strong><br />
the rapid damage <strong>and</strong> needs assessment that underpins it, including the line ministries, other Government bodies, the United<br />
Nations, the World Bank, the European Union (EU), the Office of the Quartet Representative, international <strong>and</strong> national NGOs, <strong>and</strong><br />
the private sector. Special appreciation goes to Egypt <strong>and</strong> Norway <strong>for</strong> organizing the donor conference.<br />
As we work together to provide our people in <strong>Gaza</strong> with a better future, we acknowledge the damage that can never be undone<br />
<strong>and</strong> the loss that will remain, even when peace <strong>and</strong> prosperity return. We honor the memory of the thous<strong>and</strong>s who have died,<br />
we mourn with those left behind, <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong> with those who have suffered the most.<br />
Finally <strong>and</strong> with the greatest sorrow, we remember the children: those who have died <strong>and</strong> those who still live, haunted by the<br />
horrors of this assault <strong>and</strong> the other assaults that have overshadowed their childhoods.<br />
Mohammad Mustafa<br />
Deputy Prime Minister<br />
Chairman of Inter-Ministerial Committee