Midway through its first comprehensive Medium Term Strategy (MTS), the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA; the Agency) is in position to evaluate how the MTS was developed and implemented and what lessons can be drawn for the development of the next MTS, due to be developed from January 2013. Given this, the MTS evaluation (the Evaluation) was conducted at an opportune time for UNRWA.
