Urgent repair and rehabilitation for affected shelters with partially damaged in Gaza and North-Gaza This project responses to the urgent shelter needs of the last escalation in Gaza (August 2022), which resulted of 1310 housing unit that were damaged or destroyed, of which 82 housing unit had moderate to severe damages and 26 housing units were destroyed, and rendered unhabitable, leaving 600 people displaced, and 1202 house unit had partially damaged units of which 74% in Gaza and North-Gaza. The project has been designed in alignment with the 2022 HRP and 2022 1st Standard Allocation Strategy with focus on the 1st priority to Support the most vulnerable people prioritizing those affected by escalations in Gaza, with the 2nd multi-year Humanitarian Response objective (SO2) “The basic needs of vulnerable Palestinians living under occupation are met through the provision of quality basic services and improved access to resources, in accordance with the rights of protected persons under IHL”. In addition, this project also addresses the Immediate needs of the Humanitarian impact in Gaza of the August 2022 escalation (Maintain dignified and protected shelter living conditions for affected people) with a priority to repair of partially damaged housing units and adaptation to minimum shelter standards for vulnerable affected families. All of the project interventions will be under the shelter cluster objective SO2 “Vulnerable households exposed to harsh weather and protection concerns are supported to meet basic needs and enhance their coping capacity”.
The project aims to respond to urgent affected shelter needs of vulnerable households affected by the August 2022 scalation in Gaza and North-Gaza, through supporting vulnerable affected households with shelter interventions designed based on experiences of PHC, and will entail the rehabilitation/repairs of partially damages shelters to meet minimum shelter standards and respond to beneficiaries’ immediate needs.
The project will apply the Building Back Better (BBB) approach that commits to delivering quality, sustainable and resilient interventions to reduce future vulnerabilities of communities in the event of disasters. The project will involve responding for the needs of shelter repairs and rehabilitation/ upgrading for 200 vulnerable HHs living in partially damaged shelters, with the average cost of 1,500$/shelter. The works will include adaptation of shelters to meet the needs of PWDs, elderly persons, upgrade/separate shared toilet and kitchen facilities with an integration of AGD and mainstream GBV risks mitigation measures while implementing the project’s interventions, increase privacy, improve WASH facilities, repair leaking roof, doors and windows to protect the families from harsh weather. The targeted 200 households will also, provided with awareness-raising session for enhance their coping capacity through one-day coaching session in small groups (home-based options available for any BNFs in need, e.g. PwD, elderly), to build the HHs capacities in negotiation, finance management skills to efficiently use of the cash assistance, the session will include topics: project guidelines and repair modality, the beneficiary’s rights and responsibilities, protection measures, PSEA, PHC feedback and complaint mechanism, GBV. The project will adopt the Self-help modality in order to achieve the maximum benefit of the allocated budget for each shelter. This modality is very cost effective for the BNFs. The 200 targeted HHs, content a total of 1104 induvial. (254 women,321 men,261 girls,268 boys,45 elders and 24 PWD), will selected after a verification field visit based on prioritization criteria of the SC based on HH and shelter vulnerability assessment tools (minimum standard), scoring, and ranking. Each HH will develop an individual repair/ rehabilitation/ upgrading plan based on HH specific needs to determine the cost of works at each HH. The AGD specific needs will be transferred to engineers to conduct the relevant technical assessments prior to the implementation.