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Improving resilience of people against the direct and indirect effects of Cholera and other waterborne disease of people living in cholera hotspots in Deir ez Zor and Raqqa, Syria Syria remains a complex humanitarian emergency, through years of conflict, economic downfall, and continued displacement, both the health and WASH systems have been damaged and put under significant pressure. In DEZ and Raqqa, the severe needs are compounded by water crises, and lack of sewage infrastructure. This has all contributed to the recent cholera outbreak that was announced by the MoH on the 10th of September, with the highest incidence rates currently in DEZ and Raqqa. Through rapid assessment, Medair identified three main gaps: 
	Lack of essential equipment, medicine and consumables for cholera treatment  
	Insufficient health service capacity to manage suspected cholera with subsequent negative effects on the essential PHCC services. 
	Low community knowledge on proper hygiene and AWD/Cholera prevention 

Medair is proposing to respond to this crisis through an integrated WASH and Health approach targeting 6 health facilities (2 Cholera Treatment Centers, and 4 Oral rehydration points) and their catchment population through the following activities:
-	Training of health staff in 5 health facilities different health topics including identification, management, and treatment of Cholera/Acute Watery Diarrhoea 
-	Provision of necessary equipment, consumables, disinfection materials, and medication 
-	Training of Community health workers on cholera hygiene messaging
-	RCCE and promotion of hygiene behavior through Community Health workers in the catchment population and in 19 schools
-	Distribution of 10,000 cholera kits

Medair is in constant coordination with other actors who are active in the same communities and health centers (WHO and UN), as well as national and local actors (incl. MoH, MoWR).
After finishing the activities, Medair will conduct post project monitoring to ensure the AAP processes were followed, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the project.
Strengthened delivery of integrated life sustaining services and resilience-building livelihood support in high need areas of Aleppo governorate (Priority 2) AAH is proposing a 12-month project to strengthen the delivery of priority humanitarian assistance in areas of high need and low response coverage, improving access to basic critical services and providing resilience-building, through integrated programming in targeted areas with complementary lifesaving and life sustaining interventions for vulnerable, crisis affected households in Maskana sub-district, Aleppo governorate (1,036 individuals). Strengthened livelihoods resilience will be achieved through rehabilitation of economic infrastructure for farmers in Maskana, and installation of rainwater harvesting units  Training and awareness raising on sustainable water resource management through capacity building and ToT for 10 technicians from the General Organization of Land Development (GOLD), subsequent training and for 116 farmers, and dissemination of information on best practices for rainwater harvesting and use for 55 livestock keepers, will enhance the sustainability of the interventions. Improved water use practices will allow the rehabilitation of irrigation canals to indirectly benefit all 400 households covered by the Baath farm area through more efficient use of water resources by the 116 farmers directly targeted by water resource management training. Targeting both farmers and livestock breeders in Maskana will alleviate tensions over competition for scare water resources and reliance on water trucking will be reduced for livestock breeders.  
The proposed project incorporates protection and gender principles to promote meaningful access, safety, and dignity for targeted communities. AAH has full access to the targeted areas and the capacity to begin operations immediately through direct implementation. AAH ensures complementarity of work through coordination with relevant FSL, and WASH  partners. AAH has already coordinated with GOLD of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR) in Aleppo regarding the irrigation canal rehabilitation and rainwater harvesting unit installation activities.
Provide Winter Assistance to Address the Needs of Vulnerable Host Community Households in Dara’a, Homs, and Quneitra The overall objective of this 3-month intervention is to address the critical needs of vulnerable conflict-affected populations in Syria through the provision of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance. This will support in strengthening the overall large-scale humanitarian response provided by St. Ephrem Patriarchal Development Committee (EPDC), contributing to meeting the critical humanitarian gaps in the country. Under this proposed intervention, EPDC will aim at continuing providing targeted assistance to the needs of the selected households and communities, in a further effort to contribute to their resilience and the strengthening of markets.
In Homs, Quneitra, and Dara’s governorates, EPDC will reach approximately 5400 individuals (i.e., 1500 households) with 900 households to receive a multipurpose heater with accessories per household and 150 kg tamaz as a means of fuel per households, and 600 households to receive 1800 NFI winterization kits. 
For Quneitra governorate, EPDC will reach 445 households. Each household will receive a multipurpose heater with its accessories and 150 kg of tamaz as a means of fuel per household.
For Homs governorate, EPDC will distribute 455 households. Each household will receive a multipurpose heater with its accessories and 150 kg of tamaz as a means of fuel per household.
For Dar’a governorate, EPDC will reach 600 households to distribute 1800 winter clothes kits. Each household will receive three NFI kits. NFI kit consists of winter jacket, gum boots, a pillow amp a quilt.
EPDC will start the implementation with the registration process. Then, MEAL team will conduct the verification and the eligible beneficiaries will be selected for the Heater and tamaz activities. The winter kits distribution activity will be blanket distribution so no verification is needed. 
EPDC will conduct an LTA for Dar’a, Queitra and Homs, according to EPDC approved procurement.
After the distribution, EPDC MEAL team will conduct PDM.
Multisectoral Health and WASH Solutions in GoS Medair will support the health and WASH situation in 3 communities (Bustan al Qaser, Al Jalaa, and Ar Rastan) located in 2 governorates (Aleppo and Homs). These locations were all identified as having a severity 5/5 in the nutrition sector and are in need of a well-established efficient response to deliver life-saving services to a total catchment of 117.333 people.

The response includes a comprehensive intervention targeting areas with high severity needs and risks with a coherent package of Community Health and WASH for Health activities. After cross-referencing areas of high needs with areas where Medair has strong relationships built on prior work in primary health facilities in the same areas, Medair has identified three areas with acute need for provision of comprehensive health training and re-activation of community health programs. This reactivation will raise awareness of health-related topics and promote access to services at the related PHCs. These programs have effectively spread health messages and increased access to PHC services in the years prior to 2021, but the CH programs were ceased due to lack of funding. Additionally, Medair will provide WASH updates and access to electricity via installed solar power systems.

This intervention provides a coherent approach to the emerging risk of malnutrition in the areas of concern by capitalizing on the unique and effective previous work of Medair and will contribute to the health and wellbeing of women, girls, men and boys. It will also build the longer-term capacity of healthcare and community health workers while supporting the ongoing and future operations of the clinics targeted. 

Medair’s Health sectoral response includes basic primary healthcare service (Vaccination IMCI RH/FP, GP, NCD, laboratory, health education, dental, integrated public health screening services at facility level). This wholistic community health programme reactivation includes the provision of medical supplies and consumables and a solar power panel system installation. Furthermore, Medair will invest in the capacity building and supervision of healthcare workers.

With relevance to the WASH sector, Medair will reduce the risk of disease transmission both in the community and at the health facility level. At the community level, Medair will conduct a house-to-house Health amp COVID-19 awareness program in the targeted communities of selected PHC areas. Medair will also repair WASH facilities as needed in the selected PHCs to ensure IPC measures can be effective. The main objective of this project is to improve the resilience of communities to endure shocks and crises through these investments.

The choices of the locations are guided by their high severity needs and Medair’s experience with the supported clinics. This unique partnership with these clinics and the restarting of community health and nutrition programme will significantly contribute to the health and wellbeing of women, girls, men and boys.
Strengthening resilience and promoting food security through the provision of critical agriculture inputs for the most critical affected people in Nashabiyeh (Priority 2). The project’s target location is Nashabiyeh sub-district in Duma Rural Damascus governorate, an underserved location with high needs across sectors (Severity Score 5). Nashabiyeh has been identified by the Food and Agriculture Sector (FAS) as a high priority location. Proposed interventions are aimed at restoring agricultural livelihoods to improve food security for crisis-affected households through context-specific climate smart, market-driven, and more sustainable food production. This project goes beyond short-term responses and focuses on scaling up early recovery and promotion of agriculture-based livelihoods to contribute to the resilience of affected households. The project is targeted at 800 vulnerable female and male small-scale farmers who will be supported with relevant agriculture inputs and Climate Smart Agriculture training/capacity building to improve food security and build self-reliance. As encouraged by the FAS, proposed interventions enhance multi-sectoral programmatic integration through linking food security and agriculture activities, with positive outcomes in livelihoods and resilience. The project duration is 7 months.
Cholera response in most affected governorates- Distribution of water disinfectant material On September 10th, 2022, the Ministry of Health announced a Cholera outbreak in Aleppo. As of 8th October 2022, a total of 15,823Acute Watery Diarrhea cases were reported in 13 governorates through Integrated (MoH/EWARS, ACU/EWARN, WHO EWARS in NES*), EPI data. Of the 13 reporting the outbreak, the following governorates have reported the highest burden of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) cases: Aleppo (2,411 cases), Deir-ez-Zor (8,940cases), Hassakeh (841 cases), Ar-Raqqa (3,325cases). Sixty (60) deaths have been reported (34 from Aleppo, 24 from Deir-ez-Zor, Raqqa 5 4 from Al-Hassakeh and Idleb 1). The cumulative number of confirmed by-culture cases is 245 positive cases. 
Based on a rapid assessment conducted by health authorities and partners, the source of infection is believed to be linked to people drinking unsafe water from the Euphrates River due to the high cost of potable water and using sewage-contaminated water to irrigate vegetable crops, resulting in food contamination. A cholera response plan has been developed to guide effective responses to the cholera outbreak. The main objective of the plan is to reduce morbidity and mortality resulting from acute watery diarrhea, through control and contain outbreaks and prevent fatalities from this highly infectious disease.
Due to the economic challenges, the government is not able to effectively respond to this outbreak without the support of the UN and INGOs, and local partners.
The UNICEF WASH intervention aims to respond to the cholera outbreak in Syria focusing on high-risk areas. The project focuses on ensuring access to safe drinking water through the public network system, through the distribution of disinfection materials (e.g. sodium hypochlorite) in Aleppo, Ar-Raqa, Al-Hasaka, and Deir-ez-Zor governorates, covering 3.7 Million people
Prevention of cholera outbreaks in high-risk areas in Aleppo, through the delivery of safe water and hygiene promotion. The project target area is Aleppo city, Jebel Saman District in Aleppo governorate. The governorate is currently affected by the largest cholera outbreak since 1993. Water treatment plants and pumping stations have been damaged and/or neglected as a result of the conflict. In combination with a drought-like situation, this has resulted in a sever water crisis. Faced with acute shortages in safe, public drinking water, vulnerable households must increasingly rely on costly water supplied by private vendors who truck potentially unsafe water to neighborhoods and communities. Moreover, diverting household income to water purchases impact hygiene item budgets therefore affecting the hygiene status of households. When access to water is limited, hygiene practices are poor, and adequate sanitation is not available, the risk of disease outbreaks increases. ZOA is proposing immediate response activities to ensure that water for target communities is of sufficient quality to be drunk and used for personal and domestic hygiene, preventing significant risks to health. Proposed activities are the light rehabilitation of the Bab Al Nayrab sand filtration for water pumping station in Aleppo city for increased access to safe water, in addition to the provision of cholera supplies, together with cholera prevention measures for increased community awareness. This is considered a crucial response to the cholera outbreak as the number of confirmed and suspected cases continue to rise with some of the main challenges still being that persistent funding challenges constrain the scale-up of WASH response activities and access to safe water remain challenging (WoS Cholera SitRep #5).
ZOA has already secured funding from DG ECHO to start the rehabilitation of the sand filtration system in the station. However, in light of the current cholera outbreak, ZOA proposes to expand activities to the rehabilitation of chlorine pumps and other immediately needed operation and maintenance work that current funding cannot cover, to reduce transmission of the disease in affected areas and minimize the risk of introduction of the outbreak to high-risk areas. The project is targeted at 150,000 women, girls, men and boys from host community, IDPs and returnees including persons with disabilities and older persons. The project duration is 5 months.
Strengthening the capacities of Yadan BiYad Association to providing health services to the disabled and affected people in Aleppo, Salamiyah, Deir Ezzor and their countryside. (Priority 2) Based on the databases, on disabled and affected persons, available at the YBY centers in its main headquarters in Aleppo and in its unrecognized branches in Salmiya and Deir ez-Zor, and after reviewing the standard allocation announced by SHF for the year 2022.
We propose to submit a project to enhance our capabilities in the health sector for disabled and affected persons in the sites, which we are licensed to work to implement the following activities:

1.	Providing medical consultations in the specialties (orthopedic, neurological, internal, endocrine, children) through Static Medical P Point (SMP) in  Aleppo and in Salamiyah.
2.	Providing medical consultations in the specialties (orthopedic, neurological, internal, endocrine, children) through a Mobile Medical Team (MMT) in eastern Aleppo countryside.
3.	Providing the appropriate medicines in the above-mentioned specialties through SMP and MMT as well.
4.	Providing physical therapy, Speech therapy and intellectual development sessions through our centers equipped with all the necessary equipment, tools and materials in Aleppo, Salamiyah and Deir Ezzor, which It has been equipped with previous WHO and SHF fundings since 2021.
5.	Providing suitable mobility aids for disabled persons in Aleppo, Salamiyah and Deir ez-Zor, through the manufacture of these aids in the factory that the association has equipped with previous funding from SHF since 2018.
6.	Providing diapers and personal hygiene supplements to disabled and immobile persons in Aleppo, Salamiyah and Deir ez-Zor.
7.	Providing lower prosthetic limbs to some beneficiaries in Aleppo, Salamiyah and Deir ez-Zor, where the beneficiaries from outside Aleppo will be transferred to Aleppo and hosted in the accommodation center that the association equipped with previous funding from SHF in 2021, which is located next to the prosthetic limbs center of the association in Aleppo, which It has been equipped with previous UNDP funding since 2020.
8.	Providing psychological support services to the disabled and affected persons and their families, and providing some social activities to them.

In addition to these activities, and to overcome the challenges of the lack of fuel to generate electricity for the mobility aids plant, we suggest installing a 9KW photovoltaic electricity generation system, for the assembly hall and some simple machines used in the manufacturing hall, awareness and prevention of the Covid-19 virus will be carried out by following preventive measures and adhering to the rules for preventing the transmission of the virus between workers and beneficiaries.

Thus, the project will enhance the capabilities of YBY Association to provide its services in Aleppo, Salamiyah, Deir ez-Zor and its countryside, with a total number of beneficiaries estimated at / 30256 / within a period of 8 months.
Emergency Cholera Outbreak Response for Host Communities and IDPs in Al-Hassakeh City The project will improve the prevention of cholera for at-risk communities in the southern neighborhoods of Al-Hassakeh city. The proposed WASH intervention will help to reduce the risks of contracting AWD/Cholera in the targeted areas, considered high risk, by addressing the immediate needs contributing to and stemming from the outbreak. The targeted areas in Al-Hassakeh city are those with high prevalence of AWD/cholera and at high-risk of continued and new transmission. The project will provide life-saving emergency water trucking services to 72,000 individuals in Al-Hassakeh city. All activities have been planned in full coordination with DoWR in Al-Hassakeh at the local level, as well as with the WASH Sector and sub-Sector Working Group. AAH is actively participating in all coordination mechanisms, including both the WASH and Health Sectors, to respond in a coordinated way to the AWD/Cholera emergency. This intervention is in line with both Sectors’ Cholera Response Plan and complements AAH’s broader Cholera programming spanning Health and WASH activities throughout northern Syria.
Prevention and early detection of malnutrition in children under five and management of complicated cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition The proposed project and activities are in line with priority one of the allocation strategies aiming at Strengthening nutrition response through the provision of multi-sector nutrition assistance in the areas with the highest severity of needs and poor response reach. The project is a holistic approach include both preventative and curative interventions to contribute to reduction of wasting among children, low birth weight, and anemia rate among children and pregnant and lactating women, in addition to improving IYCF practices. Mental health is also integrated at all levels to provide quality health services to better support the MHPSS needs of nutritionally vulnerable children and their caregivers. Besides in order to respond to  high SEA risks reported in the HNO, capacity building  sessions and focus group discussion  will be implemented for health care workers and implementing partners  which are part of WHO intervention plan to address SEA risks . 
Thanks to this project, the implemented activites will allow 195,894 boys and girls  under age 5 , and about 70,000 PLW and mothers to be screened for malnutrition in areas of high need. support will be provided to  management of 1000 cases of SAM inside stabilization centers across 12 governorates. Mental health and GBV first line intervention workshops will be provide to examiners and community health care workers , to provide 60,000 consultations and services  integrated with nutrition program.
Provision of life-saving healthcare services to Palestine Refugees in Syria (Priority 2) Protracted displacement, socio-economic crises aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, dire humanitarian needs and protection threats continue to affect the Palestine refugees in Syria. Women, children and other vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities and the elderly are disproportionately affected by the overall deteriorating conditions. Under these circumstances, maintaining basic humanitarian services – including access to health services – is crucial.
The public health system in Syria remains extremely vulnerable. It has been degraded by years of conflict, the displacement and migration of qualified professionals and destruction and damage of health facilities, as well as the pressure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is expected that Palestine refugees will continue to rely heavily on UNRWA for the provision of essential healthcare services.

UNRWA's 25 health facilities in Syria (including 23 health centres and health points located in Palestine refugee camps and two mobile clinics) provide a range of primary health services, including out-patient consultations, immunization services, infant and child growth monitoring, dispensing of medications, gynecology consultations, laboratory services, NCD care, maternal and child health care, dental and MHPSS services. The two mobile clinics will be deployed to areas affected by conflict or localized tensions where refugees are facing movement restrictions and to locations where Agency health facilities have been damaged or destroyed during the conflict. 

The generous contribution from SHF will enable UNRWA to sustain the provision of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare at three of its health centers and health points as well as hospitalization and patient subsidies through contracted hospitals. UNRWA is one of the few Agencies delivering direct health services, which is absolutely essential in the current COVID-19 context.
Provision of core relief items and seasonal support to vulnerable population living in underserved locations This project will provide core relief items (CRIs) and seasonal items for the most vulnerable populations in Syria, including female-headed households, older persons without family support, and persons with specific needs and disabilities who live in areas with high severity of needs. 

Under this proposed project, UNHCR is planning to provide 1,941 CRIs and seasonal kits in Hritan and Tall Refaat sub-districts in Aleppo governorate. Approximately 9,705  returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) will receive CRIs and seasonal items in the mentioned locations. Due consideration of vulnerabilities of people in need will be given in order to reduce their vulnerability, mitigate the negative impact of the deteriorated socio-economic situation in the country, and enhance people’s resilience specially during the harsh winter season.

The standard CRI package for a family of five includes high thermal blankets, mattresses/sleeping mats, kitchen sets, plastic sheeting, jerry cans and a solar lamp. The seasonal item kit contains winter clothes, sleeping bags, a carpet and extra plastic sheets.