Envelope 2: Provision of Cross Border Operations and Logistics Support for The Humanitarian Actors Operating From Turkey to Syria Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRC) has been actively engaging in the humanitarian crisis in the field ever since the beginning of the conflict in Syria. As part of a response plan, the ‘Syria Crisis Humanitarian Relief Operations’ of the TRC was launched in April 2011. Since 2012, the TRC has been providing facilitation services for the Cross-Border delivery of humanitarian relief supplies. Facilitation services that TRC provides for humanitarian organizations include but are not limited to enabling import and export with waivers, enabling the use of additional humanitarian aid border crossings, assisting humanitarian organizations in the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies into Syria, fast-tracking at the border crossings, coordination of Cross-Border shipments to avoid prolonged waiting times at the border crossings as well as to maintain a comprehensive record for the humanitarian relief supplies that have been delivered. 
Moreover, the TRC maintains a close dialogue with both humanitarian relief partners as well as Turkish authorities in order to ensure that rules and regulations regarding customs formalities and Cross-Border delivery of humanitarian relief of NGOs are undertaken by the required steps. 
TRC’s border relief services are important for the Cross-Border response of the humanitarian community because of its capacity to undertake these services through several humanitarian border crossing points, unlike the UN hub which is authorized to use only the BAH border gate. Since this role that TRC has was authorized by the Turkish Government, it will continue even though the UNSCR 2642 is not renewed in January 2023 ensuring the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies into Syria.
Since the beginning of the TRC’s facilitation activities in 2012 until November 2022, 67.859 trucks of humanitarian relief supplies have been facilitated (57.732 trucks have been facilitated through the UN Hub). 6.596 trucks have been facilitated with using all border gates within 2022. These numbers indicate that TRC provides border relief operation service for 500 trucks per month on average. In emergency cases, TRC’s facilitation capacity can be increased up to a level which will cover more than 1.500 trucks per month (as practised during the 2016 Aleppo IDP movement crisis). 
As part of its humanitarian relief operations, the TRC coordinates its activities for the Cross-Border response from its ‘Syria Humanitarian Relief Operations Coordination Office’ located in Gaziantep. In addition, the TRC runs Cross-Border facilitation activities through the 14 border gates located in 5 governorates of Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Şanlıurfa and Mardin. Currently, 8 of the 14 gates are active and the other 6 Gates are inactive as listed, Gaziantep, Karkamış Border Gate (Active), Kilis, Öncüpınar Border Gate (Active), Kilis Çobanbey Border Gate (Active), Kilis Gülbaba Border Points (Inactive), Hatay Cilvegözü Border Gate (Active), Hatay Yayladağı Border Point (Active), Hatay Zeytindalı Border Gate (Active), Hatay Bükülmez Border Point (Inactive), Hatay Şanlı Border Point (Limited), Şanlıurfa Akçakale Border Gate (Active), Şanlıurfa Ceylanpınar Border Gate (Active), Şanlıurfa Suruç Border Gate (Inactive), Mardin Şenyurt Border Gate (InActive), Mardin Nusaybin Border Gate (Inactive)
The Syria Humanitarian Relief Operations of the TRC is carried out by nearly 202 staff. This project is crucial in ensuring the total amount of humanitarian assistance facilitated to date by the TRC, which has reached over 1.18 Billion USD in value.These services are comprehensively recorded via SAP, including the type and amount of humanitarian relief supplies delivered. These records are kept under a strictly confidential status by the TRC to ensure the privacy of relevant humanitarian organizations. Data regarding the total amount of humanitarian relief supplies delivered are used as a guide to filling existing gaps in the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies.