UN and World Bank team up to help rebuild East Timor's health sector
5 May -- The United Nations mission in East Timor and the World Bank today agreed on a $12.7 million grant to help revamp the country's health sector.
The funds will be used to rehabilitate and develop hospitals and clinics, restore access to basic services throughout the country and develop a policy for an appropriate health system, a UN spokesman said today at a press briefing in Dili.
To be administered through the World Bank Trust Fund for East Timor, this first installment is part of a three-year project that is expected to have a total budget of $37 million. The grant document for the $12 million will be signed by the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the World Bank within the coming weeks, the spokesman said.
