Gaza Lifeline - Provision of Lifesaving Reproductive Health and Protection Services for Women in Gaza Amidst Exceptional Humanitarian Crisis. ltpgtThis proposal request for improving access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health including GBV services is justified by the needs on the ground as derived from needs assessments and consultations with partners. First of all, the project responds to the lack of access and availability of midwifery and lifesaving reproductive health services jeopardizing the deliveries of the over 180 births taking place each day in Gaza. It should never cost life to give life, thus securing the presence of lifesaving reproductive health services is a top priority at this time of the crisis. To address maternal mortality and morbidity, access to midwifery and SRH services at the primary healthcare level play a vital role in ensuring maternal health and avoiding complications, which easily is neglected in times of emergency. Therefore, this project supports a variety of interventions to meet the reproductive health care needs at community level. Firstly, pregnant and lactating women are in need of the most basic items to care for their specific needs, which this project will address through provision of subsidies to women in need as well as distribution of post-partum mother kits to 1700 new mothers incl. kits with items for the newborns. Secondly, this project proposes the deployment of mobile medical teams, headed by midwives supported by nurses and other health professionals, to shelters across Gaza to address primary healthcare needs with a strong focus on SRH needs. With 1.9 million people displaced in Gaza at the time of writing, mobile medical teams are considered a much-needed service modality to tend to the health needs of the population, especially the needs of the most vulnerable being women and girls, who are disproportionately affected in their ability to meet their health needs also due to protection concerns. For this reason, this project is proposing the operationalization of safe spaces for improved detection and response to GBV survivors. UNFPA will partner with CFTA, an experienced local NGO, to operationalize three safe spaces providing GBV  services, which are vital in times of conflict with increase of violence, halt of basic services and disruption to various protection mechanisms. The safe spaces will be able to receive cases of GBV referred by the mobile medical teams providing services in the shelters just as the safe spaces may refer patients with medical needs to the mobile medical teams. The GBV component is under this project considered an integral part of SRH service provision, allowing for extensive multisectoral support and case management to 4,500 women at risk and survivors of GBV, with a special focus on psychosocial support with a dedicated psychologist in each of the three safe spaces. In addition, the project will address the vital need for hygiene items, including for menstrual hygiene management, which is of specific priority to increase the dignity of women and adolescent girls as they shelter as IDPs under extremely challenging and risky conditions – 2600 beneficiaries are targeted to receive dignity kits.ltbrgtlt/pgt