Board of directors of the Palestinian Municipal Development Program held a meeting on Monday with international donors in Ramallah in the central West Bank, to discuss developments in municipal services.
The conveners included Minister of Local Governance Khaled Al-Qawasmi, member of the board of directors Abdul Ghani Nofal and directors of PMDP as well as representatives of the World Bank, the German Development Bank, the French Agency for Development, the Danish Commission and the German Agency for Technical support.
On the agenda was the progress made by the PMDP, which will fund a two-stage project to develop Palestinian municipal services, paying 72 million US dollars over three years on a range of projects to be carried out by various Palestinian municipal councils.
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