Palestinian territory, occupied 2024 - PUI RRM HUM 2024-2025 PUI är en humanitär organisation som arbetar i svårtillgängliga områden i humanitära kriser, ofta i frontlinjen, och har ett särskilt fokus på hälsa. PUI är verksamma i 24 länder och majoriteten av dessa humanitära kriser har extrema eller mycket höga tillträdesbegränsningar. Enligt en rankning från The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) verkar PUI i sex av sju humanitära kriser med extrema tillträdesbegränsningar och i nio av elva kriser med mycket höga tillträdesbegränsningar. Omkring 40% av PUI:s verksamhet är inriktad på hälsa. PUI arbetar också inom områdena nutrition, tryggad livsmedelsförsörjning och uppehälle, vatten, sanitet och hygien, skydd samt psykisk hälsa och psykosocialt stöd. PUI genomför ungefär 210 projekt per år. Organisationen når cirka sex miljoner människor per år.

Sida ingick avtal med PUI 2023 utifrån att de ansågs ge ett mervärde till Sidas humanitära portfölj och bidra till målen i den humanitära strategin (2021­-2025) när det gäller att tillhandahålla hälsotjänster och integrera nutritionsinsatser till drabbade människor i svårtillgängliga humanitära kriser. PUI is a front line humanitarian actor operating in hard to reach areas with a particular focus on health in emergencies. PUI operates in 24 countries and the majority of these face extreme and very high access constraints. According to The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) ranking (July 2023) PUI is operating in 6 out of 7 humanitarian crises with extreme access constraints and 9 out of 11 crises with very high access constraints. The majority (around 40%) of PUI’s budget is directed towards health interventions. PUI also works in areas of nutrition, food security and livelihoods (FSL) together with economic recovery, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), protection and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). PUI implements roughly around 210 projects per year. PUI's support reaches around six million people per year.
 
Sida entered into an agreement with PUI in 2023 on the basis that they were considered to add value to Sida’s humanitarian portfolio and contribute to the goals in the Humanitarian Strategy (2021¬2025) in terms of providing health services and integrating nutrition interventions to affected communities in hard to reach areas This contribution aims to support PUI in selected humanitarian crisis where PUI will implement specific projects and where the organisation has a clear added value to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to crisis affected populations. Sida will support PUI's humanitarian interventions in three different crises in 2023.

Sudan (10 MSEK) - PUI proposes a project cantered on providing health and nutrition assistance. The intervention's target area is a destination for many displaced people living in IDP camps and suffering from severe health issues and malnutrition. GBV has been identified as a targeted area in which PUI will provide direct support through health centres as well as community awareness raising. Sida considers PUI to be an important partner in Sudan. The organisation's programmatic focus responds well to the Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan's (HRP) priority humanitarian needs. Sida provides support to PUI with a focus on health and nutrition to Al Geneina and Kereneik in West Darfur. Through PUI's program, existing health system will be supported by providing basic health and nutrition services integrated with psychosocial support  (PSS) to vulnerable population groups.

Objective: Support the existing health system with provision of essential health and nutrition services integrated with PSS to vulnerable populations in West Darfur, Sudan.

Colombia  (7 MSEK) - PUI have proposed a 12-month project together with Fundación Halü built upon their current experience to support access and protection of sexual and reproductive health rights of the most vulnerable population, particularly Venezuelan settled migrants and crisis-affected Colombians. The action will focus on Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW), women, children and adolescents in rural and peri-urban communities surrounding Tame, Arauquita and Saravena (Arauca) and Tibú (Norte de Santander). PUI will provide direct access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH), Mental Health and psychosocial care to the crisis-affected population in Arauca and Tibú, with a focus on recognition and response to the specific risks and vulnerabilities of women and girls, while Fundación Halü, will improve access to mechanisms of prevention and response to SGBV and child violence in Tibú (Norte de Santander) municipality. The partners will seek complementarity and synergy through an integrated intervention based on a community approach in order to strengthen the projects impact.  

Objective: Increased immediate access to health/mental health services and protection response to target population.

Central African Republic (8 MSEK) - PUI proposes a health, nutrition and WASH project that will cover the needs of 27,448 individuals, including 6,681 direct beneficiaries through targeted free care (including 1,098 pregnant women, 834 lactating women and 4,749 children from 0 to 59 months) and 20,767 indirect beneficiaries through the improvement of healthcare provision in the 3 health facilities (Djamassinda, Zoukoutouniala and Bangbali) and the health district hospital of Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture in Ndélé. These health facilities have been targeted in consultation with the local Health District.

Objective: Ensure access to quality primary healthcare and to malnutrition treatments for the crisis-affected populations.