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Providing health services for people in need in rural of Homs The crisis in Syria is in its 9th year now, Due to the crisis, the economic situation of the people became very weak and their ability to pay for the costs of their basic needs especially the costs related to secondary health services which could be some times a life saving services.
The Syrian people now are also facing the effects of the global pandemic (COVID-19) on their economy, the costs of the health services became very high in comparison with the average income of the Syrian people and could reach 5 times their monthly income for the simplest medical surgery. While putting the spotlight on this severe needs in the community, we want to focus on the needs in the health sector in the eastern and northern rural of Homs.
Since Al-Birr Association is a main actor in the health sector specially in Homs city and its rural, we notice the huge gap between the financial ability for people and the costs of the health services. Al-Birr is already providing health services to people in need through its medical centers and hospitals with minimal prices and also covers the costs of the health services for people through referrals for people that are most in need. But due to the weak financial situation to people and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic situation, the numbers of people in need and requesting for referrals from the association are getting significantly larger and the financial abilities of the association can't cover the needs of people. 
Al-Birr has medical centers which are spread in Homs city and its eastern and northern rural area. In addition, Al-Birr is operating Al-Kindi Hospital and own Al-Birr Hospital in Homs and they are both serving a large number of people in need in Homs and its rural.
Al-Birr is looking forward to respond to the rising needs of the people related to secondary health services especially the life saving ones such as cardiac operations in cooperation with SHF.
The project aims at covering the gap we've noticed through our health centers, hospitals and referral office of the Association, where it's clear that there is a lack of financial ability of people to cover their needs of health service through referral mechanism to people in need to do the medical operations they need in the hospitals they choose and the Association will cover the expenses of their operations through the fund provided by SHF for the project.
The project is mainly directed to the people in need in northern rural areas of Homs in (Talbissah, Rastan, Houla) since they're areas of high severity of needs. In addition, it will be directed to areas in eastern rural of Homs with high severity of needs (Qaryateen-Forqlos) and the returnees to Tadmor and the IDPs and returnees from Rukban who settled in different areas in Homs city and its northern and eastern of Homs.
Strengthening the Health Sector preparedness and response for conflict-affected people against COVID-19 global pandemic Due to the prolonged crisis in Syria, the public health system is fragile and will require considerable support to reinforce its capacity to support a potential outbreak of COVID-19. Overall, only 57 public hospitals (50 percent2) are fully functioning in the country3 There is also a considerable shortage of trained staff and a high turnover rate, all of which reduce its capacity to manage cases and further puts the health workers on the frontline of response, at risks. Through this project, the PPEs for health care workers and medical equipment for case management of COVID-19 patients to be procured and delivered to MOH and health facilities. This include ultrasound scanners for pregnant patients of COVID-19 and thermometer for entry screening of health facilities.
Strengthen life-saving WASH basic services in underserved return areas to mitigate the risk of disease outbreak and restore community resilience The provision of WASH basic services is critical for all vulnerable people affected by the conflict and vital in some underserved remote rural areas affected by the conflict where humanitarian needs are underestimated. The hereby project will provide WASH assistance to highly vulnerable communities in the governorates of Daraa and Rural Damascus (Eastern Ghouta) according to the needs assessment conducted by TGH in June and July 2020. 

The rehabilitation of water systems will provide 8,040 individuals with access to water in Qasemiyeh and Beit Sawa (Rural Damascus). The rehabilitation of sanitation network will provide 915 individuals with an improved sanitary environment in Izra' (Daraa). The water trucking provision in 11 villages in Eastern Ghouta will provide safe drinking water to 334,550 individuals.

This project will target remote rural areas in Eastern Ghouta (EG) which suffered high levels of destruction, including water infrastructure used as a weapon during the crisis. In Dara’ Governorate, Izra’ city has been severely affected by the conflict due to destruction and significant influx of IDPs. Therefore, these urban areas will also be targeted to improve the living conditions of IDPs and host community and reduce the risk of disease outbreak in this densely populated city. 

The targeted areas have long been underserved by humanitarian actors, due to limited access because of tense security situation or remoteness. In all areas, the most common (if not the sole) source of water for drinking, cooking and hygiene purposes is trucked water, mostly ensured by humanitarian agencies in EG, while organized and paid by communities themselves in other areas. As a response, this project includes life-saving activities aiming at addressing immediate water needs while contributing to building resilience and exit strategy – i.e. water trucking provision, rehabilitation and/or upgrade of boreholes and rehabilitation of water networks. 

Since the 22nd of March, Syria is hurt by the COVID-19 outbreak and even though the spread of the virus seems controlled, the number of cases keeps on increasing since the beginning of June. TGH proposed intervention integrates a mainstream COVID-19 response to mitigate the spread of the virus during the implementation of humanitarian activities. More generally, the project aims at limiting the risk of disease outbreak. Hence, the project includes a life-sustaining response aiming at improving the sanitation environment through the rehabilitation of sewage network. Other TGH grants such as ECHO and SHF COVID-19 project complement the activities proposed in the frame of this allocation with distribution of hygiene kits and soaps and the implementation of hygiene promotion sessions in the same localities, and are then, not integrated as such, in the hereby project.
Equipping and Rehabilitation 2nd floor of Al-Birr Hospital as an Isolation center for affected by COVID-19 During the current response of COVID-19, AL-Birr played its role in the national efforts of fighting COVID-19 and managed to rehabilitate the 8th floor of its building and convert it to an isolation center with a capacity of 24 beds for isolation and treatment and 20 bed-ICU for the treatment of severe cases where continuous supply of oxygen is needed. All of it are equipped with monitors and ventilators. Also Al-Birr managed to convert the out-patient clinics department to quarantine center with a capacity of 27 beds. The quarentine and isolation centers have seperated enterances.
All of this was with support of local donors who trusts Al-Birr since the association have a good reputation and earned the society trust through its humanitarian work since 1956.
The Hospital now is one of the approved centers by the directorate of health in Homs for the treatment of affected people by COVID-19 (DoH letter is attached).

In order to be more prepared and ready in case of any outbreak of the pandemic, and since Homs city has no enough public hospitals nor enough intensive care units and beds, Al-Birr project aims to increase the capacity of Al-Birr isolation center for COVID-19 and of Homs governorate in general in order to save lives of people might be affected by the virus. Therefore, the project will complete the rehabilitation process of ICU department (which was the largest ICU in Homs during the last decade) in the second floor of the hospital building, and convert it  to an isolation center.
The rehabilitation needed for the 2nd floor is only minor rehabilitation work such as some carpentry and aluminum work, installing doors and windows, light plumping and electrical work. The rehabilitation could be achieved in a month at the latest, Al-Birr has enough equipment for this floor, the project will help to purchase and equip the isolation center with needed devices (beds and its accessories) to be added to the available devices. After rehabilitation, the capacity of Al-Birr hospital ICU will be 30 beds in addition to its current 20 ICU beds. So, Al-Birr will be able to provide treatment for 60 patients monthly (300 patients in 5 months)

ِAccording to Chinese reports, CT plays “a vital role in early detection, observation, and disease evaluation.”. While RT-PCR sensitivity do not exceed 70%, CT-scan will ensure rapid improved quarantining, and tailored public health measures.
Al-Birr Hospital has one of the best and developed multi-slice computed tomography scan devices in Syria that has the ability to do 128-slides scans. This device could significantly contribute in the efforts of detecting the affected cases by COVID-19 but it needs maintenance (replacing its x ray tube) that could be conducted in 1-2 months and and the project aims to rehabilitate it and put it in work to support the detection, observation and evaluating diseases of affected people where 600 patients may benefit of these scans
Community Emergency WASH Response for Extremely Vulnerable in Select Areas of Salamieh District Community Emergency WASH Response for Extremely Vulnerable in Select Areas of Salamieh District is a 12-month lifesaving and life-sustaining principled humanitarian response in the WASH sector. In line with the SHF 2020 First Standard Allocation Strategy Paper, UN WASH Cluster objectives, and AKDN’s Global and in-country frameworks, the response addresses urgent humanitarian needs with the principle objective of: Increased access to emergency WASH services and knowledge of safe and protective sanitation and hygiene behaviour and practices for affected and at-risk communities in the select sub-districts of Salamieh District: Salamieh peri-urban areas, Barri, Al-Saan, Saboura, and Oqeirbat. To achieve this objective the response works towards two inter-related outcomes:

-	Outcome 1: Improved level of protective sanitation and gender-responsive hygiene practices among targeted vulnerable households and communities. This will be achieved by building local capacities to promote safe WASH practices and hygiene behaviours among different age groups and establish the foundation for trusted local platforms to deliver emergency humanitarian assistance and basic services in underserved areas. Besides, to ensure safe WASH practices and protect school students from COVID-19 infection risks during exams period, cleaning kits will be distributed to 52 exam centers targeting a total of 5,977 (2913F 3,064M) students at the exam’s centers within Salamieh district.

-	Outcome 2: Project Outcome 2: Increased access to emergency water among targeted vulnerable households and communities. Under this outcome, vulnerable and severely water insecure communities will receive access to clean water via water trucking services in order to sustain human survival needs and maintain dignity.

Through these interventions the response will directly reach nearly 100,000 vulnerable people (over 50% women and girls) across Salamieh peri-urban areas, Barri, Al-Saan, Saboura and Oqeirbat. To the extent possible, interventions have been designed to be gender, age and protection-sensitive, and reach either broader or distinct segments of the population depending on the need and nature of the activity. As much as possible, these interventions have been coordinated with the UN WASH Cluster
Contain the spread of COVID-19 and decrease morbidity within the Palestine refugees community in Syria by enhancing protective measures in UNRWA health services This Project will support UNRWA efforts in preventing further transmission of COVID-19 and protect frontline staff through the promotion of proper practices, and provision of Personal Protective Equipment at UNRWA Health Facilities and other front-line staff.  The project will allow for the procurement of necessary PPEs for approximately 1,800 UNRWA front-line staff including 430 health staff covering needs for a period of two months.
Infrastructure rehabilitation in Aleppo and Hama governorates As electricity is a  key factor for socio-economic recovery and the return of displaced people to affected areas, taking into consideration that reliable and sustainable electricity supply essential to respond to the immediate humanitarian needs of crisis affected communities, namely for the operation of essential humanitarian services such as water supply, hospitals, schools, sewerage treatment plants and other community services. This project aims to support 48,148 affected people in Aleppo governorate (Tal-Aldaman district) and in Hama governorate, (Suran district) by providing wide services of early recovery and livelihoods activities through infrastructure rehabilitation of electricity networks in the mentioned areas.
In Suran district in Hama Governorate, UNDP aims to rehabilitate medium and high voltage electricity networks to deliver electricity to 5 neighborhoods, 1100 families in Tiba Elemam, in addition to 8 neighborhoods 1,600 families in Suran sub-district. The provided electricity will reflect directly on quality of life of inhabitant and will support the operation of feeding wells for potable water networks, and the operation of agricultural pumps to improving the agricultural situation and revive several professions. 
In Aleppo governorate, Tal AlDaman district, UNDP aims to rehabilitate the transmission lines from the Burda Grain Center to Tal Al-Daman center (20 km), with the rehabilitation of the distribution grids and provision of needed transformer to ensure electricity delivery to the 6 villages belong to Tal Daman sub-district. Rehabilitation of the electricity network will contribute to a partial solution to the problem of the lack of water in the targeted area, where domestic water wells are available in these villages, but they do not work due to the lack of electricity.
Increasing access to basic WASH services and improving living conditions of vulnerable conflict affected populations in Hama and Lattakia Governorates. This project aims at increasing the access of vulnerable conflict affected populations in Hama and Lattakia governorates to basic WASH services through the rehabilitation of water and sewage systems, and boreholes. It also includes a preventive response to the COVID-19 pandemic by a proposed WASH rehabilitation and maintenance of a childcare center in Lattakia governorate which will be accompanied by (4) months provision of hygiene kits divided under 3 types (child kit, care giver kit, center cleaning kit) to address the specific need of each category of beneficiary targeted – following WASH sector technical specifications and guidance.
Supporting preparedness, mitigation and response to COVID-19 on the most vulnerable populations in Syria COVID-19 is exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in Syria, particularly for the most vulnerable, already suffering from multiple-impacts of 9 years conflict, leaving the most vulnerable (women, children, elderly, persons with disabilities) without access to healthcare, food, safe water, sanitation and stretching the already limited infrastructure. The rapid spread of COVID-19, coupled with a public health system that is fractured from years of conflict, creates additional challenges for the operational response.
Maintaining access to hygiene is crucial to support a healthy immune system and reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Taking into consideration the UNOCHA 2020 COVID-19 Reserve Allocation and the needs identified in the field, AAH will focus on preventing the spread of COVID-19 by providing life-saving assistance: hygiene kits and awareness posters teaching communities prevention, early detection and control of COVID-19. 
The project will address the immediate needs of vulnerable and crisis-affected populations in Aleppo governorate by distributing 4,500 hygiene kits to 22,500 individuals. The content of the hygiene kits is in line with the WASH cluster’s specifications. The following communities of two sub-districts (Menbij and Jebel Saman) in Aleppo governorate will be targeted, based on initial Rapid Needs Assessments and stakeholder input: Shahda, Wadihah Al-Jadidah, Sukkariyeh, Kharayej Deham, Khan Al-Asal, Salheen, and As-Sukkari. 
The dissemination and hanging of awareness posters in public places will be conducted by SARC, and the distribution of hygiene kits will be done by the local NGO DARB Association, which has access in the target communities. Action Against Hunger received the approval from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and from SARC to work with the local NGO. After the necessary due diligence, AAH signed an MOU with DARB Association. 
The proposed project mainstreams and incorporates protection principles and promotes meaningful access, safety and dignity. AAH is capitalizing on lessons learnt and best practices from previous interventions and considers Sphere Standards, relevant Clusters’ guidance and WHO’s recommendations on COVID 19. Particular attention has been paid to ensure activities implemented by AAH are not duplicating activities undertaken by other aid agencies in the area but complement activities in the field.
Provision of health treatment to COVID 19 infected cases at the two CTFs in Al Hol and Al Areesha camps in Hassakeh province. The camps are more vulnerable to the transmission of COVED-19 due to the overcrowding of the displaced people in the camps and lack of protective supplies and tools and shortage of the curative health services. So that, the need to provision of the curative services to the residents of the camp is the priority, thus WHO established isolation centers in Al Hol, Al Areesha camps, to provide curative services for the infected moderate cases of COVID-19 where the other potential acute levels of COVID-19 will be referred out the camps for advanced level of treatment at Damascus level. the project will contribute to provide the necessary requirements of medical, protective supplies and medicines as well the logistical services and well provision of the medical staff that needed to facilitate the provision of the treatment for the potential infected cases at the isolation centers in the camps. 
the curative services provided at the isolation centers will be linked with the other health partners in close coordination with WHO.
- As of the date of the field assessment, Al Hol camp, direct beneficiaries, reads 18,100 families of 65,705 persons of which 6,940 of displaced families of 25,125 persons and 2,851 foreigner women headed of families (migrants) and 8,304 Iraqi refugee families of 30,735 persons. where Al Areesha camp holds 2,500 displaced families of 15,000 people. As a total in both camps, the direct beneficiaries reads 20,600 families of displaced and refugee families of 80,705 people.
Homs and Aleppo, Livelihood and Early Recovery for Essential services (HALE) Given the improving security context across most of Syria, the increasing numbers of return and the deteriorating economic situation, early recovery is a much-needed sector, especially in areas of high vulnerability. These areas, overlapping with a high rate of returns present little if any basic services for the returning population and extremely limited livelihood opportunities to enable households to return to their former circumstances. 

ADRA Syria has selected some of the most vulnerable communities, in line with both ERL and OCHA guidance and will respond to the urgent population needs in early recovery in both rural Homs (Al Qusair) and rural Aleppo (Al Bab, Al Safira and Tell Ed-Damman). These areas have been assessed and are considered high severity where services resources and assistance were limited. As a result, immediate response is needed from humanitarian organizations and stakeholders to minimize the suffering of those who have been living in hardship circumstances and to encourage people to return to their areas of origin. 
The objective of this project is to improve access to essential services and strengthen access to livelihood opportunities resulting in improved community and household level resilience. The HALE projects targets a total of 30,408 individuals (including 8,515 male, 8,513 female, 6,690 boys and 6,690 girls). By focusing on vulnerable households including those with elderly or people with a disability, an estimated number of 2,128 people with disabilities will also directly benefit. As the targeted locations are areas of high return, it is expected that the number of beneficiaries will increase during the life of the project.  

Project activities will be conducted through qualified ADRA male and female staff in close coordination with key stakeholders (including the ERL sector, MoSAL, SARC, MoLA and MoE) and include both household level and community level assistance. This will also enhance the mitigation and response to address the needs of boys, girls, people with disability and vulnerable communities. ADRA will include the community and people with disabilities as main key of the project success.

During the couple of months of the project, ADRA will coordinate with local ministries to receive necessary approvals and undertake the technical and vulnerable assessments in the targeted areas, followed by the implementation of the planned activities and monitoring of the project throughout the lifecycle.
Support to WASH Services and Systems in Nashabiyeh-Douma District In Syria, basic WASH systems have suffered from damage owing to years of functioning at high capacity, with limited or no maintenance and destruction. ZOA’s project is aimed at supporting water and sanitation/sewage systems to ensure regular services. The sub-district of Nashabiyeh in Douma, Rural Damascus has been identified as an under-served area with a high severity of needs (Severity Score 4). Project activities are the rehabilitation of a well and the rehabilitation of a 2 km section of sewage pipe in the urban center. Activities are aligned with the WASH Sector strategy and in close coordination with the Water Authority and the Nashabiyeh Municipality. The project is targeted at 10,000 men, women, boys and girls from host community, IDPs and Returnees including persons with disabilities and older persons. The project duration is 11 months.