Contract 5: St Andrew's Refugee Services, Austria - ''Developing strategies for community protection for refugees and vulnerable migrants in Egypt'' Contract related to: Contract 5: St Andrew's Refugee Services, Austria - ''Developing strategies for community protection for refugees and vulnerable migrants in Egypt'' - The main priority of the proposed Action is to strengthen the resilience of and contribute to the protection of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in vulnerable situations in Egypt and to promote social cohesion with host communities in urban centres. Refugees mostly reside in urban centres alongside Egyptian communities across the country, mainly concentrated in Greater Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta. The sharing of public services and subsidies represents an additional challenge for the Egyptian economy, which has already been facing difficulties over recent years. The Action supports the Government of Egypt (GoE) in coping with the socio-economic challenges and pressures of incoming migratory flows and thus represents the Commission¿s response to the various requests of the GoE for increased support in migration protection. Resilience activities are crucial to support the GoE efforts to provide health services and education to refugees, asylum-seekers migrants and host communities, while further enhancing the capacity of national institutions to absorb and respond to the increasing demand on public services. The Action builds on and complements the protection support currently being provided under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa ¿ North Africa window (EUTF-NOA) as a component of the EUR 60 million: ¿Enhancing self-reliance and access to rights for refugees and asylum-seekers in North Africa¿, as well as on the regional programme implemented by UNHCR: ¿Durable solutions for Refugee Unaccompanied and Separated Children (Libya and Egypt) and Family Reunification¿.This Action will focus on facilitating access to basic services in the health and education sector and improving their quality, while supporting meeting of basic needs, improving livelihoods and launching child protection measures including family reunification. The Action will be carried out mainly in Egypt¿s major urban centres of Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta, where the highest concentration of refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants is found. The target group is constituted of refugees, asylum-seekers, vulnerable undocumented migrants (including minors). These represent the group who have no or limited access to the national Egyptian system, facing challenges exposing them to protection risks and increasing their vulnerabilities. The lower-income strata of the Egyptian host community population in urban settings will be considered too, in order to foster social cohesion and respect the leave no-one-behind principle. The Action will have two major outcomes, namely: (i) access to multi-sectoral services including meeting of basic needs ¿ focusing on quality of services and facilities, and increased resilience through cash assistance and livelihood support, and (ii) strengthening protection and resilience of minors at risk, especially unaccompanied minors, as 37% of refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt are children, facing vulnerability risks.