Promoting Localization and Accountability through Protection and Multisectoral Assistance (PLA PMA) in Sagaing and Magway ltpgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtIn a consortium
approach with strong local Sagaing, and Magway partners, ActionAid Myanmar
(AAM) has proposed a lt/spangtltb style="font-size: 14px"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptfont-family:"gt17-month project,lt/spangtlt/bgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt aiming to assist conflict and cyclone Mocha affected communities
of North-west corridor with multisectoral humanitarian aid. Multisectoral
assistance covering lt/spangtltb style="font-size: 14px"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptfont-family:"gtFood, Protection, Shelter/NFI/CCCM, Health with integrated
Nutrition services and Educationlt/spangtlt/bgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt is urgent lifesaving aid required by local crisis affected people
in these hard-to-reach and underserved areas. Localization has been prioritized
noticeably by promoting equitable partnership, adequate resourcing, motivating
partners’ leadership, participation and intending to build local capacity. With
this, AAM has brought two strong local partners namely Social Care Volunteer
Group (SCVG), and University of Medicine, Magway Alumni Association (UMMGAA)
for Sagaing, and Magway areas. lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtGiven that lt/spangtltb style="font-size: 14px"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptfont-family:"gtfood lt/spangtlt/bgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtis
urgently required for conflict and cyclone affected communities, provision of
food assistance is pivotal. Food assistance (either cash for food or in-kind
distribution) has been requested, and after market and needs assessment (rapid
need assessment) led by partners and volunteers during the first three months
of the project. To ensure integration of beneficiaries’ feedback into the
program and measure satisfaction of recipients, post distribution monitoring
will be accompanied not only under food distribution but also for any kind of
distribution across other sectors.      lt/spangtlt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt"gtMagway
is a hotbed of forced military conscription, and this has fueled the conflict. lt/spangtltb style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt"gtProtection riskslt/bgtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt"gt have remarkably
increased since the military coup on 1 February 2021, especially violence
towards children (six grave violation), women and girls (gender-based
violence), physical violence towards general population (arbitrary arrest,
detention, armed forced labor, human shielding and killing, etc.). Safety and
security aspects have deteriorated, with massive human rights violations across
the country. Mine risks are on the rise, threatening lives of conflict-affected
populations. To address those issues, the project has proposed supports at
various levels,lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="margin-bottom:9.95pt" class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt1) to lt/spangtltbgtindividual lt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt– case management and support, particularly cash lumpsum support,
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), kit distribution has been
planned, ltbrgt2) to lt/spangtltbgtgeneral
communitieslt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt – various sorts of
awareness raising sessions on topics around Child Protection (CP), Gender-Based
Violence (GBV), Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Mine Risk
Education (MRE) have been designed,ltbrgt3) to lt/spangtltbgtvolunteers
and project frontline workerslt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt – different types of technical trainings on mentioned topics have
been requested,ltbrgt4) to lt/spangtltbgtcommunity-based
protection monitoring groupslt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt –
women groups reforming, technical support and community-based monitoring and
reporting mechanism have proposed. The project has been designed holistically
not only aiming to target cases/survivors but also planning to reach out to
general communities to understand and protect against protection risks by their
individual manner and behavior.ltbrgtUnder lt/spangtltbgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtShelter/NFI/CCCMlt/spangtlt/bgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt, distribution has mainly requested to address
communities’ unmet needs. Since the aftermath of cyclone MOCHA, communities’
shelters were largely destroyed, with personal belongings lost due to
cyclone-associated strong winds and flooding. Emergency shelter support and
Non-Food Item (NFI) kits distribution are required (either cash for shelter/NFI
assistance or in-kind distribution). The project has proposed these kinds of
support for Sagaing, and Magway cyclone affected communities to address
their unmet needs. In addition, the project has a plan to establish feedback
and complaint mechanism and post distribution monitoring to ensure accountable,
safe, and secure humanitarian programming.  

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