SYLA (Strength) = Shelter solutions, Youth and Community-based Protection, and Livelihood Assistance for people residing in areas of return ltpgtThe SYLA Consortium consists of well recognized and established 5 organizations - People In Need (the lead), Right to Protection, Girls, Sphere and ActionAid. The program aims at supporting communities in areas of return (Kharkivska, Sumska, Chernihivska, Kyivska and Zhytomyrska oblasts) by increasing access and quality of basic services in Protection, Livelihood and Shelter sectors.ltbrgtThe program will be implemented on the institution, community and individual level, ensuring these spheres will complement one another and provide harmonized and complementary support to the most vulnerable displaced individuals, focusing particularly on women, youth, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ and the elderly.lt/pgtltpgtInstitutions selected for the response will serve as the Consortium entry points to communities in need of restoration or quality improvement of basic services – in this case, various social services. The support provided to them is based on field visits and meetings with oblast-level social departments, during which authorities expressed need of various basic repairs, enabling provision of social services, as well as capacity building initiatives to its social workers and employees, to increase the quality of their work. Additionally, ActionAid will provide various safety trainings to local CBOs and NGOs operating in the humanitarian sphere, to prepare them for any potential additional shocks and new crisis. lt/pgtltpgtCommunity initiatives and individual assistance will be provided in catchment areas of the institutions, to ensure complementarity of various components and holistic support provided to selected communities. It will also ensure referrals of identified vulnerable individual beneficiaries, linking them with social institutions as well as other actors. Community initiatives will complement social institutions' work, ensuring a grassroots approach and inclusion of those, who are not always able to be part of institutional social protection schemes. The Consortium partners will select 4 initiatives (women, youth, PWD and LGBTQ+ led), that will conduct own analysis of needs in their communities and propose solutions, that address the identified issues in the most relevant and dignified way. The initiatives will then receive small grants or in-kind support to ensure its success and meaningful change.ltbrgtApart from Protection focused assistance, the Consortium partners will conduct Shelter rehabilitations for families whose houses have been destroyed. Areas selected for repairs will also be targeted with Protection assistance - HH selected for repairs will also be assisted with PSS, IPA (especially HLP counseling planned by R2P), as well as being linked with social institutions. All repair works will be in line with Shelter Cluster SOPs and quality standards and build on PIN's experience as main Shelter actor in Ukraine and Shelter Cluster co-chair for eastern oblasts. lt/pgtltpgtIn terms of Livelihood, the Consortium is planning to support social entrepreneurs and small and medium size businesses with grants to procure relevant equipment, to support restoration of businesses or increase their capacity to employ vulnerable persons - returnees, IDPs, conflict-affected people, people with disabilities and people in difficult life circumstances - especially women. Apart from this, the Consortium will provide business and professional trainings to individuals to support self-employment, as well as to small and medium business owners. The supported businesses will also be selected from the same catchment area as supported social institutions.ltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtThe program, through addressing the 3 core sectors identified as critical in the last REACH MSNA, will also be able to provide evidence on relevance of provided support and its impact on returns and access to basic social services. lt/pgt