Development Expenditure Projects in Palestine

- The value of development expenditures according to the budget items (commitment basis) amounted to 952 million shekels in 2020, while the value of actual development expenditures, that is according to the (cash basis), amounted to 572 million shekels in 2020. Accordingly, the value of development expenditures (arrears) in 2020 amounted to 380 million shekels.

- Development financing (external support) in 2020 amounted to 452 million shekels (Table No. 6 External Support monthly and cumulative 2020), and its projects were overall classified under the following headings:

- Joint financing to support projects of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in the amount of 62 million shekels.

- Old grants in favor of ministries, whose value amounted to 66 million shekels. The remainder in other projects amounted to about 314 million shekels.....including direct development projects and other indirect ones, or capital development...

· Table No. 10-A .... Report of development expenditures, according to the main projects and financing during 2020, totaling 583 million shekels..., we list below the first largest 5 projects in the list of development expenditure projects in 2020 which constituted about 40% of the value of development expenditures in that year:

1- Amount 86 million shekels: Rehabilitation of the security apparatus, external financing – multiple countries, including Authority financing (15 million shekels).

2- Amount 77 million shekels: Construction, equipping and furnishing of classrooms in Areas A + B, financed by Authority financing, financing from Amman, financing by the German government, the Indian government, financing from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, financing from the Al-Aqsa Fund.

3- Approximately amount 19 million shekels: Financing of Dura and Halhul Hospital financed by a loan from the Italian government.

4- Amount 18 million shekels: Authority financing for the Project for the Regularization of Lands of the Northern Governorates.

5- Amount 16 million shekels: Rehabilitation of the infrastructure of the General Authority of Crossings, Authority financing.

6- Amount 9 million shekels: World Bank financing, emergency response to Covid-19 ..

- The government actually financed projects (as indicated by the statistics of the Ministry of Finance and Planning), in the amount of approximately 119 million shekels, out of the total development expenditures amounting to 583 million shekels.

- As for Authority-financed projects in 2020, they amounted to 164 million shekels (commitment basis), while they were 119 million shekels in actual terms.

- Below — Report No. 10-D Report on development expenditures – Authority financing – 2020, listed some projects which constituted about 50% of the government's development expenditures in 2020, according to the commitment basis:

1- Project for the Regularization of Lands of the Northern Governorates in the amount of 18 million shekels.

2- Rehabilitation of the infrastructure of the "General Authority of Crossings" in the amount of 16 million shekels.

3- Rehabilitation of the security apparatus in the amount of 15 million shekels.

4- Support for the schools of Jerusalem Al-Sharif in the amount of 11 million shekels.

5- Support for the political and security program of the President in the amount of 7.5 million shekels.

6- New National Press Building in the amount of 7 million shekels.

7- National Press project in the amount of 3 million shekels.

8- Rehabilitation of areas in the Hajaj area of Jericho in the amount of 3 million shekels.

· Table 10-B “Development expenditures by expenditure classification”

· Spending items in which development expenditures were spent were as follows:

- Wages and salaries amount 24 million shekels.

- Operating expenses amount 237 million shekels.

- Social assistance amount 1 million shekels.

- Subsidies amount 9 million shekels.

- Capital expenditures amount 312 million shekels.

· Total sum: 583 million shekels.

· Table No. 5-B Details of expenditures by item – responsibility center (commitment basis):

1- (Governance sector) amount 293 million shekels, the responsibility centers through which expenditures were disbursed: "General Authority of Crossings" amount 81 million shekels, and "Ministry of Interior and National Security" amount 121 million shekels.

2- (Infrastructure sector): amount 273 million shekels, the responsibility centers through which expenditures were disbursed: "Water Authority" amount 91 million shekels, "Ministry of Public Works and Housing" amount 51 million shekels, and "Ministry of Local Government" amount 100 million shekels.

3- (Foreign Affairs sector): amount 302 million shekels, the responsibility centers through which expenditures were disbursed: "Ministry of Education and Higher Education" amount 192 million shekels, and "Ministry of Health" amount 65 million shekels...

· Total overall 952 million shekels (commitment basis), while the (cash basis) was 572 million shekels.

Date: 30-3-2021