Mitigating the impact of winter conditions on underserved populations in Quneitra sub-district through a multisectoral approach to resilience (objective 1 and 2) ltpgtThe project’s target location is Quneitra sub-district in
Quneitra governorate, an underserved location with high needs and limited
humanitarian assistance across sectors, therefore listed as prioritized
location in this allocation (inter-sector severity score 4, winter
severity index 3.2). Proposed interventions are complementing previous and
current assistance provided to the same target population, to support
them through a comprehensive approach, aimed
at directly increasing the thermal comfort of households (HHs) susceptible to
harsh winter conditions and sustainably increasing the resilience of
communities to winter conditions through agricultural livelihood opportunities
and access to safe drinking water and sanitation, targeting 7,630 women, men, girls, and boys, including the most vulnerable groups such as PWDs, the elderly, female-headed households and those with chronic health issues in the Quneitra sub-district.ltbrgtlt/pgt

ltpgtMinimizing vulnerable HHs’ exposure to harsh winter
conditions is considered a lifesaving activity and a priority by the NFI Sector
under objective 1. In response to priority needs and eligible winterization
activities, this activity will provide three rounds of environmentally
friendly heating fuel (olive pomace) to 800 of the most vulnerable HHs in the
target location in the period Nov. 2023 till Feb. 2024. The activity duration is 5 months,
starting in November 2023.ltbrgtltbrgtlt/pgt

ltpgtIncreasing resilience against future winters to the
same communities that ZOA targets under objective 1 through agricultural
livelihood and WASH assistance is considered a life-sustaining
activity and prioritized by the FSA and WASH sectors under objective
2. In response to priority needs and eligible sectoral activities in the
strategy, and complementing WFP efforts in distributing food
rations to the most vulnerable households, this project will restore and
solarize a currently non-functioning agricultural water borehole that
reaches a public nursery that produces various fruit tree saplings for
farmers free of charge (FSA). To complement, ZOA will provide
further critical agricultural inputs to 300 vulnerable farmers
according to their needs and preferences and based on a fixed budget per farmer of an
equivalent of 200 USD (FSA). ltbrgtltbrgtSince a damaged main sewage network in the
same location is resulting in improvised, open sceptic holes and leaking
wastewater to farmlands, especially during rains in wintertime, ZOA will
rehabilitate this network and open any blockages to stop contamination of
living environments and crops benefiting the whole sub-district population (WASH). Finally, within the same
community ZOA will solarize a drinking water well which was rehabilitated
by UNICEF through SARC 3 years ago and which received a new pump through
the Directorate of Water Resources (DoWR) 6 months ago (WASH). The solarization
will address the inadequate provision of drinking water to the network due to
lack of electricity from the public grid, especially in the winter season when
the consumption of electricity increases, putting more pressure on the grid and
resulting in fewer hours of electricity. The implementation duration
for all FSA and WASH activities under objective 2 is 12 months.ltbrgtltbrgtlt/pgt

ltpgtActivities are designed in line with the HNO, the HRP
objectives, the current allocation strategy paper and recent
needs assessments among the target population done by the organization,
and in close coordination with the Directorate of Agriculture (DoA),
the General Sewage Company (GSC), the Directorate of Social Affairs
and Labor (DoSA) and DoWR in Quneitra as well as the Sectors of
Shelter/NFI, WASH and FSA.ltbrgtltbrgtlt/pgt

ltpgtInterventions will jointly contribute to saving lives,
alleviating suffering and maintaining human dignity for target populations and
to their early recovery through an integrated response of immediate winter NFI
support, enhancing livelihood opportunities and reinforcing sustained
access to critical WASH services, in particular during winter months.lt/pgt