Provision of customised dignity kits for women and girls affected by Earthquake in Northwest Syria ltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2margin-top:0ptmargin-bottom:0pt"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="line-height:1.38margin-top:12ptmargin-bottom:12pt" dir="ltr"gtltb id="docs-internal-guid-fa769056-7fff-42d7-7467-06abeb76779a" style="font-weight:normal"gtltspan style="font-size:8ptfont-family:Arialcolor:#000000background-color:#fffffffont-weight:400font-style:normalfont-variant:normaltext-decoration:nonevertical-align:baselinewhite-space:prewhite-space:pre-wrap"gtBefore the earthquake, of the 4.6 million people living in northwest Syria, more than half – 2.8 million – have been living in displacement prior to the earthquake while 4.1 million were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance With the 6 February earthquakes, the whole region of NWS has experienced severe devastation, destruction of infrastructure.UNFPA estimates before the earthquake indicate that 1,250,000 women and girls in northwest Syria are of reproductive age and in need of lifesaving and life-sustaining protection and reproductive health services in addition to 1,770,257 that are in need of GBV services. With the earthquake, this number is likely to increase as the devastation caused homelessness, additional displacement and overcrowding at the reception centres. At the same time, markets and supply lines have been interrupted, stripping women and girls of the possibility to care for their needs in dignity and safety.  UNFPA continues to report that women and children are being exposed to serious protection risks such as GBV, particularly in lack of housing alternatives and/or informal settlements where makeshift WASH facilities do not provide for privacy. The need for dignity kits, inclusive of hygiene and safety items, is repeatedly reported as urgent, allowing implementing partners of UNFPA to create  a safe environment for individual disclosures and referrals, along with the ability to safely inform about available services and mitigate the risk of exploitation and abuse of targeted communities. The Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA), along with the GBV AOR Capacity assessment and UNFPA’s service review after the earthquake inform that Shelter and NFIs are topping the priorities of women and girls in need. However, in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake the ability to safely engage with women and girls in these or similar assessments was limited as the field teams dispersed, resulting with the RNA giving less specification on the NFI and other needs specific to gender or age.  UNFPA Türkiye Cross Border (TXB) immediately engaged in response to the earthquake, among other ways, through intensified provision of dignity kits for the NWS’s communities most severely impacted by this disaster. UNFPA Dignity Kits (DKs) provide the basic hygiene and safety related items to protect the affected towels, such as reusable sanitary pads, towels, underwear, flash lights. Upon consultation with the distribution partner, UNFPA TXB carried out TPM focused on the content of DKs and based on beneficiary feedback proposes customisation with items tailored to the context such as antibacterial wipes and sanitary napkins.  As a GBV AOR cluster lead and main provider of dignity kits in NWS, UNFPA proposes to purchase and tranship 22292 lt/spangtltspan style="font-size:8ptfont-family:Arialcolor:#000000background-color:#fffffffont-weight:700font-style:italicfont-variant:normaltext-decoration:nonevertical-align:baselinewhite-space:prewhite-space:pre-wrap"gtcustomizedlt/spangtltspan style="font-size:8ptfont-family:Arialcolor:#000000background-color:#fffffffont-weight:400font-style:normalfont-variant:normaltext-decoration:nonevertical-align:baselinewhite-space:prewhite-space:pre-wrap"gt dignity kits, and distribute to most needed through mobile protection teams of Ihsan Relief and Development (Ihsan) NGO. Besides meeting the basic, lifesaving needs, and enabling safe entry to further lifesaving GBV or protection services, the provision of these dignity kits will significantly enhance the gender sensitivity of the overall emergency response to earthquakes.Given the limited amount of funds available paired with increased cost, the provision of the dignity kits will be conditioned with the set of criteria clearly developed by the GBV programme and GBV AoR - to enable delivery to the most needed among all survivors of earthquake and designed to include women and girls with disabilities or without care, women and girls in acute medical or protection emergency, separate or unaccompanied girls or female headed households among others. Geographical targets of this action are set in coordination with Ihsan  and the availability and tentative schedule of their mobile protection teams.lt/spangtlt/bgtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2margin-top:0ptmargin-bottom:0pt"gtltb id="docs-internal-guid-fa769056-7fff-42d7-7467-06abeb76779a" style="font-weight:normal"gtltbrgtlt/bgtlt/pgtltp style="line-height:1.44margin-top:0ptmargin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"gtltb id="docs-internal-guid-fa769056-7fff-42d7-7467-06abeb76779a" style="font-weight:normal"gtltspan style="font-size:8ptfont-family:Arialcolor:#000000background-color:#fffffffont-weight:400font-style:normalfont-variant:normaltext-decoration:nonevertical-align:baselinewhite-space:prewhite-space:pre-wrap"gtIt is noteworthy that Ihsan  has extensive experience in the distribution of DKs (outside the scope of this action) . Ihsan  also has a strong established presence in north-west Syria with access to IDPslt/spangtlt/bgtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2margin-top:0ptmargin-bottom:0pt"gtltbr class="Apple-interchange-newline"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltp class="sceditor-nlf"gtltbrgtlt/pgt