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2021-09 Factsheet

September 2021
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Left: Blanket distribution of core & winter NFIs, Hama, credit: GOPA., Rehabilitation of partially damaged apartments in Deir Ba'alba, Homs, credit: SIF

Highlights

NEED ANALYSIS

Shelter

  • Dar’a Al Balad: with de-escalation of the conflict, and to support families to return, the shelter sector (national & sub-national) launched a rapid damage assessment to determine damage levels and associated resource requirements. Geographical coverage has been distributed among operational partners to undertake street level observation and categorize damage to residential buildings i.e. from minor to severe damage. Survey completion, analysis and release of findings will take place in October.

Noon-food Items

  • HNO 2021: 13.4 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance with 2.6 million people in need of NFI support, an 8.5% increase from 2020.

 

NFI

Shelter

Need analysis

Shelter

  • Dar’a Al Balad: with de-escalation of the conflict, and to support families to return, the shelter sector (national & sub-national) launched a rapid damage assessment to determine damage levels and associated resource requirements. Geographical coverage has been distributed among operational partners to undertake street level observation and categorize damage to residential buildings i.e. from minor to severe damage. Survey completion, analysis and release of findings will take place in October.

Noon-food items

  • HNO 2021: 13.4 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance with 2.6 million people in need of NFI support, an 8.5% increase from 2020.

 

Response

Shelter

  • 1st Standard Allocation: the shelter sector vetted 8 projects out of which 5 were approved totaling funding realization to the sector of USD 3.2M which aims to respond to 21k beneficiaries in 7 governorates.
  • Field missions: shelter coordinators conducted a visit to Homs, Hama and Palmyra in August with the focus on enhancing sub-national coordination, identification of the main challenges, and monitoring the quality of shelter response. Recommendations were agreed upon and issued through a formal mission report.
  • ECHO HIP: the shelter sector engaged with ECHO on HIP 2022 consultations and provided a briefing on current humanitarian needs, emerging trends, vision for 2022, and recommendations as to what ECHO should prioritize in its strategies for 2022. ECHO aim to ensure that greening of the response is key in 2022.
  • Sub-national Coordination: the sub-national shelter sector south (Sweida, Dar’a & Quinetra), supported by the national shelter sector, held its first working group in mid-August. Forthcoming meetings will be on bi-monthly basis.

Noon-food items

  • Coordination: three sector meetings were held in Q3 focusing on progress of 2021 projects, partner implementation challenges, and winterization planning.
  • Winter Update: a winter taskforce was formed and a ‘lessons learned’ workshop held in Q3 with a view to enhancing the response and updating the Syria response area winter response strategy. An estimated 2.5 million individuals are in need of winter assistance with a partner target to reach 1.88 million people. While NFI partners have begun assisting prioritized individuals, there is a current secured funding gap of 67.2million USD.
  • GBV Mainstreaming: the NFI sector is following-up on referral pathways related to GBV mainstreaming, as the related indicators are currently tracking in our 4Ws, the sector also provided guidance and reviewed the safe distributions guidelines and current tools.
  • SHF Update: SHF launched its 2nd reserve allocation of 2021. The allocation targets the response to the water crisis through a multi sector approach in addition to expanding winterization coverage in priority areas.
  • Sector Post Distribution Monitoring: the NFI sector is currently moving toward standardization of NFI PDMs. The objective of this exercise is to obtain timely feedback on the quality, sufficiency, utilization, and effectiveness of the NFI assistance provided to evaluate current and inform future NFI programming.

 

Gaps / challenges

Shelter

  • Significant economic decline coupled with price fluctuation has resulted in a decreasing scope and/or target of shelter projects.
  • Diminishing coping capacities of both IDPs and host communities as well as limited financial resources of government and sector partners are leading to an increase in shelter needs.
  • COVID-19 related restrictions and emerging need to provide higher standards for spaces and WASH facilities increase the cost and duration for shelter projects.
  • Lengthy processes continue for obtaining official approval for shelter projects and associated beneficiary lists.
  • Opportunities for systematic field-based data collection remain limited due to access restrictions, resulting in incomplete needs analysis in some areas.

Noon-food items

  • The inflation rate continues to pose challenges to partners particularly in procuring items.
  • Based on Post Distribution Monitoring, beneficiaries have reported concerns over the quality of items and delayed distribution of seasonal items.
  • Access and safety continue to be challenges in some parts of the country as well as partner capacity and funding.