Providing life-saving primary health care support including reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health care in the most affected vulnerable locations in Deir ez Zor and Rural Damascus Governorates. The project focuses on addressing the need for increasing access to life saving and life sustaining health services, especially sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, for those most vulnerable and in need and strengthening the health system capacity to support continuity of care, strengthen community resilience, and respond to internally displaced people (IDP) movements and changes in the context. UNFPA aims to increase access to life-saving and life sustaining health services, particularly SRH services via static facilities and integrated SRH and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) mobile teams (IMTs)in Deir ez-Zor and Rural Damascus Governorates. The project key activities include the provision of essential and life-saving medicine and equipment, operationalization of IMTs to deliver integrated SRH/GBV services in the two Governorates, specifically remote and hard-to-reach areas including Abou Kamal, Deir ez-Zor, Mayadeen, Duma, Darayya, Rural Damascus and Az-Zabadani   districts focusing on sub districts targeted in the allocation call of SHF. The project will be implemented in cooperation and coordination with UN agencies including WHO and UNICEF and local NGOs including one IP in Deir ez-Zor, and two IPs in Rural Damascus to ensure lifesaving support to targeted communities. The project seeks to promote the overall wellbeing of vulnerable communities, particularly adolescents and youth, women of reproductive age and infants. This component will support the provision of safe and quality health services including for communicable diseases
The project will provide information dissemination and awareness raising on key topics including maternal nutrition and anemia, warning signs during pregnancy, safe delivery, infant and young child feeding, family planning, Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) and prevention of GBV including early marriage. There will also be a rehabilitation component, which will focus on the minor rehabilitation of two primary health centers in Rural Damascus (Babella and Darayya districts) which were damaged during the crisis and support replacement of damaged health and medical equipment including the essential list of RH medicines and supplies through mobilizing resources from other funding.
 
Additionally, the project aims to support diagnostic and treatment services through the procurement and provision of medicines, medical supplies and medical equipment to the health facilities or IMTs/clinics, namely ultrasounds and mobile hemoglobin testing devices. The initiative will support bridging the gap in the provision of RH and safe delivery services for all women in remote and hard to reach area by supporting two existing midwifery network established in 2021-2022 with the needed Reproductive Health Kits for safe delivery. The midwifery networks currently support safe delivery in rural Deir ez-Zor.

The project will support emergency referrals for safe delivery and high risk pregnancies/complications through secondary health care services coupled with the static RH facilities and the IMTs. The project works complimentary to the GBV proposal under the same allocation of SHF funds