Enhance shelter conditions for the most vulnerable groups of IDPs This project is oriented to serve the most vulnerable groups from those were forced to flee out of their places in southern Idlib and western Aleppo governorates between December 2019 and March 2020.

Tracking the last waves of IDPs, most of them have managed to find a safer place away from the front lines. Part of them is living now either in unfinished/partially damaged, or inadequate collective centres which lack the basics needs of daily living standards, such as privacy, dignity, and minimum health requirements.

This project is planned to improve the shelter conditions of the displaced people to improve their living standards and ensure that the provided assistance will be free for all the targeted beneficiaries for one year of safe and dignified conditions, and the activities will include:

1- Provide rehabilitation services for 1,500 IDP households living in 34 collective centres without any appropriate living conditions. (Afrin - Al-Bab - Azaz - Idleb - Dana - Maaret Tamsrin - Sarmada - Armanaz - Salqin - Azmarin)
"Rehabilitation works will include a portion assigned for maintaining and improving the current sanitation facilities of the targeted collective centres".
2- Provide NFI/CRI kits to 1,500 vulnerable households who are covered within the previous rehabilitation services. (secured fund from WATAN complementary project)
3- Provide complementary winterization assistance including Stoves, and Heating materials from WATAN secure funded activities.
4- Provide awareness support (Banners - Posters - Painted Illustrations on the public facilities) on COVID19 awareness, fire risks, safety, security and PSAE awareness.

"Prior to any technical works or verification process, WATAN team will identify the needs of the collective centres and share it back with Shelter/NFI cluster for the final approval or revision, and then go forward if approved or reallocate with other vulnerable locations inline with cluster strategies and recommendations".

As for the beneficiaries, WATAN already conducted a need assessment and a 100% verification including a specific scoring system that can identify the targeted groups of this project, meanwhile, the provided support will keep seeking to support the shelter capacity and to seek longer-term solutions that can be provided to the affected groups by reallocation households from the camps to the rehabilitated collective centres as well.

The technical needs will be assessed through specialist teams consists of engineers and technicians, and based on their findings, the fund will be allocated to fill the gaps of lacking the basic needs. Bill of quantities will be prepared accordingly, and the implementation will go through contractual services after a tight bidding process.

By these mentioned activities, the provision of longer-term shelter and NFI support in the collective centres will support a better preparedness to the upcoming winter response as well as strengthening the elements of preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prioritize the most affected communities and coordinate with the active humanitarian actors to secure the basic services to the most vulnerable people, this intervention is designed to meet the needs of women, girls, people with disabilities and elders, with an adequate lifesaving life-sustaining services.