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Urgent assistance to vulnerable households and farmers in Rafah governorate in the Gaza Strip Through the proposed 9-month project, Action Against Hunger (AAH) aims to address needs of vulnerable food insecure households in Rafah Governorate. In partnership with the Arab Center for Agricultural Development (ACAD), AAH will build on both organisations’ technical experience and well-established presence in local communities to access to the most vulnerable households in need of livelihoods restoration, along with improved access to food. 
The intervention is twofold: firstly, it firstly intends to maintain and/or improve the livelihoods of 60 vulnerable households of small-scale farmers who are facing the consequences of the current lack of economic resources in the Gaza Strip, exacerbated by the outbreak of COVID-19, which has impaired their capacity to repair or conduct adequate maintenance on their key agricultural infrastructures. The provided support will include unconditional cash transfer to facilitate their access to rehabilitation materials and inputs, in addition to agricultural extension services to improve their productivity and strengthen their technical capacity in mitigating environmental shocks and risks. Secondly, the project will address the needs of 80 vulnerable households with immediate needs to improve their food security and coverage of basic needs through Multi Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) assistance. 
Overall, an estimated 1,964 individuals will benefit from this intervention (including 216 men, 192 women, 161 boys and 172 girls or 741 directly), obtaining either resources to maintain their main source of livelihoods or cash assistance in order to reduce negative coping mechanisms and increase their household’s food security level. 
The overall intervention will consider households supported as a whole special attention will be paid to potential outcomes of the intervention on household dynamics, specifically considering gender roles. Data about household tasks repartition between men, women, youth and members with special needs will be assessed and taken into consideration during the selection process. Building on an existing successful partnership between AAH and ACAD (currently funded by the oPt Humanitarian Fund), this intervention answers to the gaps identified within the oPt Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2020 and align with the identified objectives, specifically considering farmers affected by recurrent shocks and food insecure households in surrounding areas, including most vulnerable groups, elderly, disabled and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) suffering reduced capacity to acquire basic inputs or access markets as needed to protect their livelihoods.
Provision of self-paced offline learning materials to support remote learning for vulnerable children at risk of drop out in West Bank. The aim of this project is to enable the most vulnerable children in Area C to access on-line education platforms and have self -paced off-line learning opportunities in the context of COVID-19 related disruptions to on-site participation in schooling.

The 2020 second standard allocation Humanitarian Fund, will specifically be used to UNICEF is requesting funds from the 2020 second standard allocation OPT humanitarian fund to provide 400 vulnerable children from West Bank with tablets loaded with off-line learning materials to support them access remote learning and minimize their risk of dropping out of school, especially during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Urgent Assistance to Vulnerable Households in Gaza Strip This project aims to urgently respond to the current emerging basic needs among those affected households in order to enhance their access to food and other essential basic needs, as well as restore livelihood capacities through unconditional cash assistance. 

The project will target three groups of acutely vulnerable households 1) vulnerable households from the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) Social Safety Net (SSN)’s additional unserved waiting list from Middle Area, Khan Younis and Rafah, 2) farmers and breeders from Khan Younis Access Restricted Area (ARA), and 3) fishers from Khan Younis. 

Through this project, Mercy Corps and its local NGO partner Foukhary Association for Country Development will target 317 vulnerable households (1,807 individuals), including 167 SSN households with limited economic opportunities from Middle Area, Khan Younis and Rafah, 100 vulnerable farmers and breeder from Khan Younis ARA, and 50 vulnerable fishers from Khan Younis. 

Mercy Corps will distribute cash assistance to each household in monthly installments:
 Highly vulnerable SSN households will receive $ 1,016 over a period of four months ($ 254 monthly installment) 
 Eligible vulnerable farmer and breeder households will receive an average amount $1,200 in three installments, according to their specific individual needs.
 Eligible vulnerable fisher households will receive an average amount $1,002 in three installments, according to their specific individual needs.

This urgent cash support will allow vulnerable households to have a flexible, reliable, and timely financial support to address their urgent needs, restore their livelihoods, build resilience and improve agriculture and fishery production capacity.

By utilizing cash as a modality for direct assistance, beneficiaries have greater power in determining how to meet their own urgent needs, empowering beneficiaries and maintaining their dignity while reducing their vulnerability and contributing to the restoration of their food security. 

Additionally, in the Gaza Strip, local markets are functional and vendors continue to have adequate stock available therefore, cash assistance to vulnerable households is an appropriate humanitarian response modality to meet critical basic needs.

Through well-established evidence-based vulnerability and technical targeting, Mercy Corps, in partnership with Al Foukhary Association for Country Development will use Proxy Means Test Formula (PMTF), and Technical Criteria to identify, assess and verify selected vulnerable households to receive cash assistance, monitor activities, and ensure full coordination and engagement with Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Agriculture, the community and all relevant stakeholders. 
Additionally, Mercy Corps will promote community ownership, accountability, and participation throughout the project life through baseline assessments, orientation sessions, Post Distribution Monitoring, Community Accountability and Reporting Mechanism (CARM), while also mobilizing key stakeholders to more deeply engage with identified vulnerable households.
Life with Dignity: Communications Strategy for the occupied Palestinian territory Life with Dignity (LWD) is a cross-sectoral UN and NGO communications campaign. Through solution-focused communications and coordinated international advocacy centred around relatable, compelling individual stories, the UN and NGO partners will generate empathy for the lives of ordinary Palestinian women, men and children and mobilise action to change policies and practices needed to improve their lives. A focus on thematic spotlight issues, within the overall framework of COVID-19 response and regeneration for time-specific periods will enable coordinated international outreach to governments on particular policy recommendations.
Ensure continuous provision of quality essential elective surgeries to Gazan patients The project is designed to be carried out in partnership with Public Aid Society (PAS), aiming at improving health status of Gazan people, through ensuring the delivery of safe surgical services timely and minimizing the waiting time to receive such services during the lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19.

Project includes: 
- Conducting surgeries (Minor, moderate and Major) for 820 Male, Female, Children patients in the specialties of General surgery, ENT, Urology, Pediatric and Orthopedic. 
- Procurement of PPEs for the staff and Hygiene and infection control materials.

Targeted patients will be selected from updated waiting lists of MoH hospitals in Gaza City.

The proposed intervention is expected to last for the duration of the project (9 months) and to benefit a total of 820 direct beneficiaries. Moreover, its impact will last beyond the project's period as it will ensure avoiding deterioration in health status of people targeted in a safe manner and will minimize the load on MoH hospitals.
Scaling-up COVID-19 testing in the oPt On 30 January 2020, the WHO Director-General declared the COVID-19 outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC). The Emergency Committee has also provided recommendations to WHO, to all countries, and to the global community, on measures to control the outbreak. On the 11 March 2020, WHO announced the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, affecting 123 countries and territories.  On 5 March, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) reported its first 7 confirmed COVID-19 cases to WHO - a cluster of hotel workers in Bethlehem who were in contact with a Greek tourist group which tested positive for COVID-19 upon their return to Greece. Since then, MoH reported 158 more confirmed cases bringing the total number to 165 (as of 03-Apr-2020, 10:00am). Cases have now been reported all across the oPt, including in Gaza (12 cases as of 03-Apr-2020, 10:00am). The MoH has also reported the localized community transmission of the virus as family members of the first detected had also been tested positive for COVID-19.

Since the first cases were reported globally, the WHO office in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and partners have been gradually expanding the support to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health (MoH) to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. These efforts intensified since the first reported cases in oPt. The overall objective of this project is to support the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health (PA MoH) to contain the human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19. The project aims to accelerate the strengthening and scaling-up of the MoH capacity to early detect the COVID-19 and adequately trace contacts of confirmed cases. WHO will support the MoH in: (1) procuring and delivering the essential supplies for scaling-up of laboratory testing for COVID-19 and expanding laboratory support. WHO estimates that up to 5,000 women and men in oPr will have access to adequate COVID-19 screening through laboratory testing. This allocation would contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the inter-agency COVID-19 response plan launched on 27 March. It is also in line with the Palestinian National COVID-19 Response Plan launched by the PM’s office on 26 March 2020.
Food Assistance to Vulnerable HHs in the Gaza and North Governorates Oxfam and MA’AN will provide short term food assistance to 480 HHs of the under-served population in the Gaza Strip, under the proxy means test formula (PMTF). Each HH will receive 6-month worth duration of food vouchers topped up on a monthly basis with the designated value in accordance to their HH size: Category 1 HH (HH size 1-2), Category 2 (HHs size 3-5), Category 3 (HH size 6-8) and Category 4 (HH size 9 and plus). Additionally all HHs will be receiving three rounds of hygiene materials that will be distributed through e-voucher grocery shops. The beneficiaries will be nominated from the Ministry of Social Development’s (MoSD) waiting list and will be selected based on a vulnerability and food security assessment that will be carried out at the project’s start. The project will be implemented in Gaza and the Northern Area of Gaza through 9 to 12 shops, depending on the locations and accessibility of selected beneficiaries. Beneficiaries are primarily located at the eastern and norther parts of the target locations, including access restricted areas (ARAs), whereby female headed households and households with persons with disabilities will be prioritized. Awareness raising materials will be provided to raise awareness on nutrition and  hygiene on hygiene practices particularly related to Covid-19 along with awareness on and  nutrition and proper food utilization will be provided to all project beneficiaries.
Emergency WASH intervention to improve the water supply chain in unconnected communities in Area C to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 crisis The proposed intervention will last for nine months and aims to increase availability and access to quality WASH facilities and services for the most vulnerable communities and households (HH) in Area C of the West Bank. The provision of safe WASH conditions is essential for preventing the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak by facilitating the application of required mitigation measures. The Action will therefore target the most vulnerable communities and HHs in Area C which are not served by piped water services and depend on water trucking or cisterns as their primary water source. These highly vulnerable communities and HHs will be provided with safely managed access to water by addressing all water supply and management chain issues from the water source to the HH.

Specifically, ACTED and local partner Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) will implement a multi-level approach to address WASH quality concerns through the following means:
	Improving water quality of communal water sources and water cisterns such as the installation of chlorine-dosing pumps and maintenance works
	Strengthening water transition means between the communal water sources, cisterns and/or HHs through the provision of restricted cash assistance for maintenance works on water truck tankers
	Facilitating self-rehabilitation works for HH level WASH facilities for the most vulnerable through the provision of restricted cash assistance and technical guidance. 

In total, the project will target 45 communities across nine governorates of the West Bank. The intervention will directly benefit 1,046 HH beneficiaries, representing 4,962 individuals. All HHs will benefit from improvements to the quality of water sources and water cisterns, and from improving water transition means. Out of these 1,046 households, the most vulnerable 180 HHs (828 people) will benefit from HH level rehabilitation works of WASH facilities. Out of these 1,046 households, it is also expected that 1,440 individuals will benefit from the project, as 300 skilled and unskilled workers will be contracted to conduct rehabilitation works with trucks and at household level, thus benefiting these daily workers and their family members.  

As a rapid response to COVID-19, the WASH rehabilitation of HH-level WASH facilities will be targeted in two batches, allowing for the most vulnerable of the vulnerable to be assisted at the soonest. Similarly, the development of Bills of Quantities (BOQs) for the seven communal water sources and water cisterns, and 120 water truck tankers, will all take place within the first month at project onset.
Gaza Emergency Response: Improving Food Security for Families Impacted by COVID-19 With the Gaza Strip on the brink of a full-scale humanitarian emergency and economic collapse and over one million Palestinians living within its borders considered food insecure, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its local partners Life and Hope Association (LHA) and Palestinian Organization for Development (POD) propose an 8-month electronic voucher (e-voucher) project to help 3600 of the most vulnerable Gazan families affected by COVID-19 meet their essential food needs. Aligned with the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) Humanitarian Fund 2020 2nd Standard Allocation Strategy Paper Food Security Sector (FSS) Objective 3, the project will utilize CRS’ existing e-voucher system to ensure rapid and direct assistance to targeted households. CRS will coordinate closely with Palestinian Authority - Palestinian Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) to identify highly vulnerable households impacted by COVID-19 across all five Governorates of the Gaza Strip CRS will validate these needs and will coordinate with World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) to maximize assistance impact and avoid duplication. CRS also confirms that it will coordinate and de-duplicate with other FSS partners targeting people impacted by COVID-19. Such an approach will leverage the overall efforts of the COVID-19 response in Gaza and avoid duplications. CRS will keep the FSS coordinator involved in all such communications to assure the best collaboration among FSS partners. Working in the oPt since 1961 and with current programming in each of the five Gaza governorates, CRS’ existing staff and established policies and networks will ensure successful implementation of the proposed project.

UPDATE FOR EXTENSION PERIOD STARTING 10 MAY 2021: 
In line with UN OCHA's reserve allocation strategy, CRS will extend the current award for three months (10 May to 10 August), at a total of $500,000 (inclusive of overhead). The extension will enable CRS to reach 1,776 additional families impacted by the COVID-19 crisis in Gaza with critically needed food assistance through its well-established e-voucher system. For these additional families, CRS will provide mixed-wallet assistance modality that includes 60% restricted voucher and 40% cash option to promote dignity of choice and ensure responsiveness to individual household preferences and needs, while delivering timely assistance in a COVID-safe manner. CRS is updating the modality based on learnings from complementary programming in Gaza.
Support the Inter-Agency COVID-19 Response Plan for occupied Palestinian territory On 30 January 2020, the WHO Director-General declared the COVID-19 outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC). The Emergency Committee has also provided recommendations to WHO, to all countries, and to the global community, on measures to control the outbreak. On the 11 March 2020, WHO announced the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, affecting 123 countries and territories.  On 5 March, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) reported its first 7 confirmed COVID-19 cases to WHO - a cluster of hotel workers in Bethlehem who were in contact with a Greek tourist group which tested positive for COVID-19 upon their return to Greece. Since then, MoH reported 37 more confirmed cases bringing the total number to 44 (as of 18-Mar-2020, 10:00am). Cases have now been reported in Bethlehem, Tulkarm, Nablus and Ramallah. The MoH has also reported the community transmission of the virus as family members of the first detected had also been tested positive for COVID-19.

Since the first cases were reported globally, the WHO office in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and partners have been gradually expanding the support to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health (MoH) to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. These efforts intensified since the first reported cases in oPt. The overall objective of this project is to support the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health (PA MoH) to stop the human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 and provide adequate care for patients affected by COVID-19, their families and close contacts. The project aims to accelerate the strengthening and scaling-up of the MoH capacity to prevent, early detect and respond to COVID-19 outbreak. WHO will support the MoH in: (1) procuring and delivering the PPE supplies, (2) supporting MoH's efforts in scaling-up COVID-19 case management, especially in Gaza focussing on ensuring the ability of the health system to treat COVID-19 cases, including critical ones, and expanding laboratory support. As part of the inter-agency risk communication and community engagement task force, WHO will support collective efforts to educate and actively communicate with the public and reaching the population with tailored messaging through community engagement and interpersonal communication approaches. WHO estimates that up to 5,000 women and men in OpT will have access to adequate COVID-19 treatment, up to 600 patients will have COVID-19 tests and communities in all 5 Gaza governorates will have received communication messages for prevention of COVID-19 (up to 500,000 men and women). Additionally up to 500 health workers will benefit from capacity building activities and up to 65 health facilities will benefit from infection prevention and control supplies.
Provision of essential primary health care to remote communities of Palestine refugees in the West Bank UNRWA's proposed intervention aims at ensuring the provision of primary health care for Palestine Refugees in the West Bank.  
Through the deployment of Mobile Heath Teams, the project will provide essential health services to vulnerable and remote communities in Area C whose access to health services was significantly reduced due to access and movement restrictions exacerbated by the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the action will help preventing the spread of COVID-19 by distributing hygiene kits and awareness raising material on best practices on how to prevent the transmission of the virus.
Improved Child Protection and MHPSS service provision for Women, Children and families affected by conflict-related violence and GBV in Area C of the West Bank This project aims to strengthen the protection and social safety net and resilience of children, caregivers, and communities in the face of chronic exposure to conflict-related violence by: (1) providing community-based and specialized child protection and psychosocial and mental health services to children and their families, (2) providing specialized package of services to GBV survivors and girls and women at risks, (3) surge emergency capacity of community-based organizations on psychosocial and child protection interventions and specialized MHPSS services, including online modalities. This project targets Palestinian children directly and indirectly exposed to violence and abuse related to the Israeli Occupation, including settler violence, unsafe school environments, home and school demolitions, and displacement. War Child Holland (WCH) and partners the Psycho-Social Counseling Center for Women (PSCCW) and the Palestinian Counselling Center (PCC) will be targeting acutely affected children and families living in the most marginalized areas  in the West Bank with specific focus on Area C and Bedouin Communities located in the below:
-	Area C and Bedouin communities of the Jordan Valley under Tubas and Jericho governorates, including Kardalla, Bardalla, Ain El Beida, Al Aqaba, Al Jiftlik with special focus on Al Musaffah and Ash-Shuneh, Gharb al Muthallath, Abu al Ajaj, Fasayel including Fasayil al Wasta and Fasayil Al Fauqa, Marj Naji, Zbeidat, and Al Auja with focus on Ras Ein al ‘Auja. Outreach CP and PSS activities will be also be provided to Khirbet Tell el Himma, Ein al Hilwa – Um al Jmal,Hammammat al Males- Al Burj, Hammamat al Males- Al Meiteh, An Nuwei’ma al Fauqa Bedouin Communities.
-	Area C and Bedouin communities of Bethlehem Governorate, Beit Skaria Job Al Theb, Al Taquo including the surrounding Bedouin communities like Rashaydeh and Kisan, Al Maasara, Al Walajeh 
-	Area C and Bedouin communities  of Hebron: Marginalized communities of Masafer Yatta
The project partners will target 20 CBOs distributed among the four above-mentioned Governorates. The areas were selected based on previous experience of consortium partners in those areas and needs identified as well as on the OCHA Vulnerability Profile of Palestinian Communities in Area C. 
In addition to specific Protection interventions, War Child and partners will mainstream Protection in Covid19 response efforts, in line with local infection and prevention control (IPC) measures and global guidance notes produced by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (e.g. CPHA Note on the Protection of Children during Covid19 outbreak and annexes).