Provision of Shelter Assistance to Vulnerable Households Headed by Women The Protection of Vulnerable Households Headed by Women from Harsh Weather is a five months project aims at supporting vulnerable households exposed to harsh weather and protection concerns to meet their basic needs and enhance their coping capacity. The project comes in line with HRP 2020 strategic objectives 2 and 1st Reserve Allocation strategic objective #2 for  Shelter amp NFI  with the aim of  Provision of temporary shelter assistance for the most vulnerable households in Gaza Strip and in line with the Shelter and NFIs Cluster Objective 2.The project will target 400 women-headed households living in substandard housing conditions are at risk of exposure to extreme weather and protection concerns identified by SIF annual assessment and updated of the data base of orphans sponsored households in July and August 2019. Also, SIF conducted cumulative shelter assessment with focus on winterization/ summerization elements between September 2019 and January 2020 targeting a sample of 292 HHs identified by the annual assessment as living in poor shelter condition. The assessment found a need for urgent rehabilitation and NFIs assistance ahead of the winter season. The project has been designed in accordance with the SIF extensive experience in the field and in close consultation with beneficiaries as well as the shelter cluster to support families with the needed urgent winterization and summarization assistance. It will include light summarization rehabilitation work such as rehabilitation of roofs made of metal or asbestos by replacing the damage metal sheets, fixing windows and doors for bathrooms and bedrooms to maintain privacy, light maintenance of WASH facilities and installing renewable power supply system to improve coping capacity of the families during the winter and summer season and electricity cuts. It will also include provision of NFIs and /or to undertake light shelter repair/ rehabilitation through restricted cash based modality. 
 Based on actual need and priority, each HH will receive an individualized rehabilitation plan corresponding to the specific needs of their shelter and beneficiary preferences in order to make it comply with winterization /summarization minimum standards. 
The project will provide complementary urgent shelter assistance to the ongoing Winterization Project that SIF is implementing now to assist 500 HHs and already have completed the distribution of Winterization NFIs for the targeted 500 HHs and rehabilitation of shelter winterization for 110 HHs only. The project will respond to the need of shelter rehabilitation for 100 HHs from any of the remaining 390 HHs out of 500 HHs who received only winterization NFI assistance in the ongoing project and or other HHs on the waiting list. The project will combine the urgent intervention such as cash distribution for NFIs, light maintenance for windows, doors, and WASH facilities with long term interventions such as using renewable power energy and improving the kitchen hygiene spaces to achieve more sustainable solutions and adequate protection for the most vulnerable households. 
SIF will sign an agreement with300 targeted beneficiaries clarifying the type of NFIs they can purchase by amount up of $300. SIF will transfer the cash payment via banks considering proximity of the banks to beneficiaries’ locality. Each beneficiary will receive a cheque of $300 from SIF office and cash the amount and heading to any vendor(s) to purchase NFIs they need including clothes, furnishes kitchen tools, and hygiene items that identified by the beneficiaries in the need assessment..
SIF will Follow contractor modality for 100 HHS who need the shelter rehabilitation as the targeted women headed the HHs do not have the capacity to manage the rehabilitation by shelf help modality.