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Utilizing solar/photovoltaic energy to operate agricultural water wells and pumping systems The Gaza Strip is currently suffering from a severe problem of electricity cuts which is currently 4 hours of electricity connection and 12 hours of electricity cut. This situation is putting framers in great risk of losing their crops, livestock and having their agricultural and livelihood assets threatened. To overcome this problem NDC in partnership with Al Nakheel Association is suggesting to utilize solar energy to operate agricultural water wells for farmers. The suggested system will be utilized to operate a maximum of 30 horse power submersible pump. This power produces from 55 to 100 cubic meters of water per hour. The water quantity pumped depends on the level of the underground water below ground surface. For example, if the ground water is available at 20 meters below ground surface, the system l produces from 90 to 100 cubic meters of water per hour and at 100 meters below ground surface, the system produces from 55 to 60 cubic meters of water per hour.

The suggested solar system consists of the following:
- Solar/Photovoltaic arrays/panels - Each array/panel will produce 224 W (1* 2 meter). A total of 134 arrays/panels are required. They will produce around 30,000 W.
- A 30 KW solar pumping inverter which is more than enough to operate the submersible 30 horse power water pump .
- Metal holding structure for the solar arrays
- Electrical connections and electrical panel

The total cost of the solar system for each water well is around $40,000. It is important to realize that the suggested system does not need storage batteries and hence the investment cost is lower and the operational cost is almost zero.

The project will install solar systems for around 10 water wells distributed all over the Gaza Strip (2 water wells in each of the five governorates of the Gaza Strip). NDC and Nakheel hope that such intervention will encourage other farmers to convert their existing electrical or fuel irrigation systems to solar system after realizing the feasibility and the advantages of the solar systems.
Emergency Supply of Water Trucking to area C of the West Bank The aim of the project is to provide increased access to safe drinking water and to ensure affordable, sufficient and sustainable access to basic minimal water services for the most vulnerable and marginalized/remote communities in Area C of the West Bank. 

Water accessibility will be increased through the subsidized distribution of safe, high quality drinking water to the most vulnerable households (HHs), schools and hospitals. The approach will ensure that targeted families have proper access to safe drinking water at a fair price, in line with the quantities and the prices agreed jointly within the WASH Cluster, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) and the Water Access Task Force.

The proposal enables a strong collaboration among local and regional stakeholders in line with and beyond the central management of the PWA. The action involves a predictable water access management approach, ensuring equity, and increasing accountability and responsibility among local, regional and national Palestinian stakeholders. The proposed intervention will provide immediate relief to the heightened needs resulting from limited water access currently prevailing in the West Bank. The proposed intervention will also decrease the risk of seasonal and long-term displacement of marginalized families - especially those living in rural and herder villages - where water access is scarce and drought is a persistent threat.
As Cluster Lead Agency, UNICEF will continue to play its pivotal role in coordinating the intervention with the national and local authorities, ensuring quality control, as well as strengthening the governance and policy aspects of the project with the PWA with the view of mainstreaming the water distribution approach of the project at the institutional level with the relevant authorities.
Urgent support for the most vulnerable families in Gaza Strip Since mid-April 2017, the escalation in the internal Palestinian government divide has impacted the fragile economy of the Gaza Strip. Power shortages have undermined economic activity, particularly in the agricultural sectors, compounding the impact of an ongoing salary crisis in the public sector. In addition to the direct impact on affected staff who are now at risk of becoming food insecure, the salary crisis will ultimately be felt more broadly in Gaza's restricted economy, as a result of the expected fall in food consumption levels. Currently, the 1.2 million people in Gaza that are considered moderately to severely food insecure are experiencing increased economic obstacles in accessing food. Without additional social assistance and basic services, the food insecure will be placed at further risk (Gaza Crisis: Urgent Funding Appeal 2017, OCHA July 2017). 

“Urgent support for the most vulnerable families in Gaza Strip “ will allow for the most vulnerable households in Gaza to immediately access fresh and nutritious local food. The project's objective aims to reduce food insecurity amongst vulnerable households in both Gaza and Northern Gaza Governorates. The Fresh Food Vouchers (FFVs) will be provided to vulnerable households, who are classified by MoSD and other stakeholders in Gaza. as living under deep poverty line, with insufficient or no access to any means of assistance and with limited cash capacity to meet their households' basic food needs in particular. Under this output,425 families will be supported with FFVs for a period of 6 months by linking them with fresh food shops and markets. On monthly basis, each beneficiary will be able to redeem a voucher value of 200 ILS for fresh vegetables and a voucher value of 120 ILS for chicken. The total monthly voucher value is 320 ILS (US$ 91.31 for each family. Beneficiaries will be nominated by the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and will be verified according to Oxfam and MA'AN's criteria. The intervention will target vulnerable households in both the Gaza and Northern Governorate. Large families with 9 or more members, women headed households, and those with observed protection concerns and vulnerabilities will be prioritised in the beneficiary selection.
Providing Fuel to Support the Health and WASH Primary Services in Gaza Strip. The proposed project aims to maintain the current levels of essential health services by providing support, in the form of fuel supply, to the emergency health services (hospitals, emergency medical services, and primary health centres), WASH (Water Wells, Sewage Treatment Plants, and pump stations) based on needs identified by related clusters. This support will ensure that basic health services are maintained, benefiting the entire population of Gaza (2.0 million people). UNRWA will be able to assist covering the needs of Health Sector during the period from August 2017 to December 2017. The present proposal includes the provision about 1,862,000 litres of fuel during the project duration at a total cost of USD 1,000,000.
Emergency response to improve access to basic water services and protect vulnerable families in  Dar Salah  Alkurshan Bedouin communities- east of Bethlehem Governorate. OPT-17/WS/98342	
Its evident that its an  important and pressing priority  to connect Al Kurshan community with a main water pipeline for both human and animal use.  This will decrease time, cost and daily water losses during water trucking  to Al Kurshan. Dar Salah village council has sent officially a request addressing AAA for the need to implement  this project  confirming that there is already a filling point for Alkurshan from which they propose to extend the water pipeline. The needed length of the 2 inches pipeline is more than 3 kilometers, this project will be implementing only 3 km of this length to minimize potential security risks and loses. Dar Salah VC will be responsible for the maintenance of the line and will constantly ensure adequate water is available.   The village council will capitalize on this water pipeline to connect surrounding  shelters with a connection and water meters.  By doing so, we are linking emergency humanitarian needs with longer term development. All the community will benefit from the water pipeline, in addition to another 200 families from Dar Salah who will benefit by enabling them to access water. This activity was coordinated between Dar Salah village council and PWA. Also the project implementation will  be in line with the PWA Technical specification when comes to the designs and implementation. Required fittings and water meters will be installed in a filling point at the end of the line.
Emergency support for greenhouse and poultry farmers to overcome the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip his project aims at Supporting greenhouses and poultry farmers  and improving the livelihoods of selected vulnerable farmers ' households in the North Gaza , middle area , khan younis and Rafah South area of Gaza Strip.

The proposed intervention shapes UAWC work by addressing critical issues that impede farmers to build their resilience and overcome negative coping mechanisms.

Thus, activities will be addressed to install   systems for solar units  for operating  electrical pumps for irrigation crops inside the  greenhouses  and to light poultry farms , this solar system  will participate    in solving the current electricity cut which reached to 22 hours per day and affected the irrigation time of the crops and led to dramatically drop in the agricultural production   . The proposal has been designed following on the analysis of current UAWC quantitative and qualitative assessments, which show that one of the main problem of vulnerable farmers is the electricity cut which affected their  crops and their agricultural product , the project will support 40 farmers, out of them 20 greenhouse farmer and 20 poultry farmer

The project is well framed under UAWC Strategy 2015-2017 and it is part of the main UAWC strategic objective " Enhancing the ability of small-scale farmers (women and men)to improve their living standards and strengthen their steadfastness", Now and in the Future". It contributes to the HRP main objectives. In concrete, the action is well articulated to main Food Security Sector (FSS) objectives, collected in the Allocation Strategy HRP 2017:
Key result 1: Ensure acutely-vulnerable Palestinians under occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West
Bank have access to essential services.
Key result 2: Strengthen the ability of acutely-vulnerable Palestinian households to cope with protracted threats and shocks
Strong MampE and feedback mechanisms will be put in place to ensure timely and quality implementation, high level of results and relevant community participation, including men, women, boys and girls..
Life-saving continuum of newborn care in the Gaza Strip Medical Aid for Palestinians designed this project to improve emergency preparedness and response and support the life saving continuum of newborn care in Gaza through the provision of life saving drugs items which are zero stock, provision of neonatal life support training to enable health personnel to save lives of at risk newborns and provision of infection control materials and training to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to neonatal sepsis. Every year, 3600 newborns are identified to be at risk and admitted to neonatal ICU units and need to be targeted by life saving services. Securing this fund will bridge a gap in funding that MAP is facing. MAP has applied to Muslim Aid in the UK to fund this project from 2018 an going on. Thus, if the project is not approved, 1,800 newborns at at risk of not getting assistance they need increasing mortality and morbidity status in Palestine.
The project outcomes:
* Life saving neonatal drugs, infection control supplies and disposables provided to the neonatal units at MoH to respond to the acute need of critically ill newborn babies
* Increased capacities of neonatal unit staff to efficiently resuscitate new born babies and manage emergency care at their units.

3,600 newborns will benefit from neonatal care services and 200 MoH staff members (114  female and 86   male) at the neonatal units will have their skills and competencies developed to support the care outcomes for the new born in Gaza particularly in Neonatal life support NLS, Neonatal Safe Transfer NST and infection control policies and procedures. 
Female: 1,914  
Male: 1,886  
Children (under 18): 3,600 
Adult (18 - 59): 200
Improving housing conditions  of vulnerable households  in Gaza Project Summary :	The project aims to address identified needs of acutely-vulnerable households living in substandard housing units. Particularly, the project will provide comprehensive upgrades and repairs which increases access to an adequate standard of living and creates a safer environment. The project will target vulnerable families living in overcrowded, substandard units in Gaza City. A specific vulnerability criteria has been established in order to improve housing conditions. Improvements focus on providing increased thermal comfort, protection from the effects of extreme climate during the summer and winter, promoting safety, privacy, and hygiene – all of which consider different needs for residents’ ages and genders.  

Through the proposed project intervention, Mercy Corps will rehabilitate substandard housing units to meet adequate living standards. As a result, the hazards of future stresses and shocks will be reduced for vulnerable households, especially related to protection and health.  The intervention will comply with the “Shelter Minimum Standards for Repairs and Upgrades” adopted by the Shelter Cluster throughout the implementation of the rehabilitation services.

The project will focus on the most vulnerable households, with an emphasis on vulnerable female-headed households. Prioritization of beneficiaries are selected from a current beneficiaries’ pool, and are determined considering the Shelter Cluster prioritization vulnerability criteria.

Through this program, Mercy Corps will rehabilitate 40 substandard housing units in Gaza, hosting 228 vulnerable individuals. Verification of the most vulnerable households will be done through home visits where the nominated household’s vulnerability and food insecurity situation will be re-assessed. During these visits, gender considerations and needs of each household will also be addressed. Mercy Corps will work through local partner NGOs to strengthen its community engagement and community acceptance. Monitoring will be completed by Mercy Corps MEL team, and feedback and learning will be reflected through the duration of the project.
Emergency rehabilitation of agricultural assets in Southern Gaza The proposed action is based on the HRP top priority vetted project OPT-17/A/98190. It will aim at compounding the effects of increased water availability and quality in remote areas with land rehabilitation in order to improve and restore the productive capacities of vulnerable farmers in Southern Gaza and protect their resilience.

By the end of the project, productive capacity of 1,695 farmers will be restored through water networks rehabilitation and land rehabilitation. Specifically, 8 km of water carrying lines will be rehabilitated/ installed and 170 dunums of land will be directly rehabilitated through the provision of ag ricultural and irrigation inputs. Overall, the productivity of 261 dunums of damaged land will be improved.

5 Community Based Agriculture Committees (CBAC) will be established to ensure the sustainability of the work after the project has been completed, as well as to ensure that protection standards are both respected during project implementation and addressed through the works. The committees will be trained by ACTED and ACAD staff in maintenance and protection, as well as ERW/UXO risks. The training of the committees for the maintenance of the water networks will ensure sustainability of the action by giving the ability to identify and refer any issues to the relevant authority/ service provider.

Based on recent assessments (February 2017), extensive consultation with stakeholders and following the recommendations of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Food Security Sector (FSS) coordinator, the project will target the following areas in Southern Gaza:  al Fukhari (Khan Younis), Shokat as Sufi , Muraj and Al Nasr (Rafah) and Wadi as Salqa (Deir el Balah). By targeting areas where upstanding needs were identified following previous interventions, the action will complement and strengthen the efforts deployed by ACTED and ACAD through previous projects by extending their reach and concentrating assistance on the most in need and underserved areas.

By restoring agricultural productive assets of the farmers and ensuring better access to water resources and the cultivability of their land, they will be able to resume their farming activities and enhance their livelihood and resilience. Beyond the direct impact on vulnerable farmers, increased agricultural production will increase food availability and affordability throughout the target areas. 

Eventually, the project will be supported by the mainstreaming of an Integrated Protection Approach (IPA), with specific focus on women and vulnerable groups, and a strong Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) component. In particular, beneficiaries will be heavily involved in the action through community based empowered committees, and a comprehensive Complaint Response Mechanism will be deployed.
Health under protection (HUP): Emergency health and nutrition assistance to people living in communities whose rights are inadequately protected in the West bank (WB) CARE/partners will respond to this situation with a comprehensive intervention  that combines elements of direct service delivery to the identified vulnerable communities, with special focus on women and children, and a protection -specific component aimed at reporting the incidents of violations of IHL and IHRL  that needed health intervention or cases asking for health intervention including staff, partners, beneficiaries, inhabitants or GBV cases  and  reporting that to the  cluster according to an agreed upon mechanism, also to report the denied access to reach the basic health services , working toward  coordinated advocacy for accountability for those violations. In the last project funded by OCHA which last  for 4 months end of late Oct, 2016, 48 cases were reported and referred to the protection cluster from the violations even health or others.


The intervention will be targeting 31 vulnerable communities in the WB by providing essential quality healthcare. CARE, in partnership with PMRS and HWC, and close coordination with MOH, will provide these services in targeted communities in the WB through the use of mobile clinics/teams that offer basic curative and preventive PHC services, including women’s healthcare (ante and post natal care), family planning, general practice care (GP), health awareness, basic lab tests, home visits, children health, and the team also will be provided with emergency kits that enable them to work with emergency incidents aiming for life saving before transferring to the hospitals.
CARE will also work with partners in WB to report/refer on all violations as denial of access to basic services, settler violence etc. that seek support from the health teams. CARE will continue working with trained community representatives (focal points) and project staff to report these violations. These incidents will be referred to the Cluster for further follow up as part of the referral mechanism developed by the HNC and Protection Cluster. The project was designed in coordination with other actors and with cooperation between CARE and MOH, UNRWA who has a signed MoUs with CARE to provide the health services to refugees in Barta’a and in Khallet An Nu’man in Bethlehem), and other stakeholders in order to avoid duplication, maximize the number of beneficiaries those in need in the most effective and equitable manner.
Restoring access to multi-disciplinary rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in marginalized areas of the West Bank. The proposed project will be implemented by the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR), with Handicap International technical support. 
This project responds to the critical lack of access to essential services for persons with disabilities (PwDs) in targeted areas of the West Bank. Despite the critical needs to the health sector especially for fuel and power for the hospitals in Gaza, it was highly difficult to ensure both areas or to concretely support the crisis in Gaza with limited funds, while it is concretely possible to support the critical needs of PwDs in Area C, where the cluster has a less strain on the health sector as Gaza, given the current power crisis.
The project will improve PwDs’ access to essential services in targeted areas of Area C and Bedouin communities in the West Bank. Handicap International will work with BASR in targeted areas to provide outreach and home-based multi-disciplinary rehabilitation services for PwDs, and particularly persons with physical impairments. Two mobile rehabilitation teams will be created, comprised of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, who will provide various direct services to PwDs and their family members. In addition to home-based rehabilitation sessions, mobile teams will provide direct medical health services and distribute essential medical p supplies, provide mobility and assistive devices and follow-up on their use. 
This package of basic services follows the requirement of the UNCRPD to ensure that people with disabilities are provided with appropriate health services, including general health care, habilitation and rehabilitation services, and are not discriminated against in the provision of health care (Articles 25 and 26). Therefore the project will support the integration of and rehabilitation services into overall primary health care.
Provision of Fuel for Operating Hospitals and to support emergency education in the Gaza Strip The proposed project aims at maintaining current levels of essential health services by providing support, in the form of fuel supply, to the emergency health services (hospitals, emergency medical services, and primary health centres) based on needs provided by Health Organisation (WHO). This support will ensure that basic health services are maintained, benefiting the entire population of Gaza (2.0 million people). 
With generous donation from the Humanitarian Pooled Fund UNRWA will be able to assist in covering the needs of Health Sector during the period April 2017 to July 2017. The present proposal includes the provision about 924,000 litres of fuel during the project duration at a total cost of USD 500,000.