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Strengthening Protection of Elderly Women through inclusive SGBV Prevention and Response in Akkar. The proposed intervention targets elderly women at risk, a vulnerable group whose needs are not adequately addressed by the humanitarian response. The IRC will build on the establishment of a comprehensive Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) program in Akkar in 2012 and will adapt it to programming inclusive of elderly. The IRC’s proposed intervention will consolidate its ongoing strategy of increasing access to life saving Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response activities and ongoing community-based interventions to women who have survived or are at risk of SGBV. The proposed intervention will focus on addressing the needs of an underserved target group, elderly women, through inclusive and comprehensive support, including case management, focused and non-focused psychosocial support, community engagement and risk mitigation activities. 
Inspired by the humanitarian inclusion standards for older people , the intervention modalities will include the operation of one mobile team to remote areas of the Akkar and Wadi Khaled. The IRC will also strengthen the protective environment through capacity building with local organizations and associations and will train SGBV and non-SGBV actors on skills and knowledge critical to the provision of quality services for women, including safe referrals.
IRC will continue to collaborate with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) mobile team in Akkar where there is a critical gap in services available for SGBV survivors. Through their regular mobile services, LRC can cover a broader spectrum of needs tailored to elderly women. Additionally, LRC is well positioned to provide these critical services, given their extensive acceptance in communities across Lebanon, including entrance to areas inaccessible to many organizations. 
IRC and its partner LRC will implement a similar model of capacity building and support to continue mobile services in Akkar and Wadi Khaled. Additionally, both organizations will aim to build sustainable SGBV capacity across SGBV and non-SGBV actors through targeted capacity building based on a jointly developed training plan. The project will also be an opportunity to enhance collaboration with key governmental actors such as the Ministry of Social Affairs through ensuring coordination and safe referrals to institutional care programmes for the elderly.
Through this action, the IRC will aim to achieve the following results:
1. Elderly women affected by or at risk of SGBV have access to critical response and prevention services through the mobile approach.
2. A protective environment for elderly women within their communities is created through community mobilization and engagement with communities.
3. Capacity of local actors and community members to provide quality comprehensive SGBV response and prevention services through the mobile approach is strengthened.
Case Management to GBV Survivors in Bekaa This project seeks to establish a case management unit in Baalback, namely related to the following: 
-	Provide GBV case management services to women and girls GBV survivors or at risk
-	Provide mobile GBV case management services to women and girls GBV survivors or at risk who do not have access to the case management unit in Baalback
-	Provide psychosocial support services and activities in part of the case management services 
This project will be building on ABAAD previous years of experience in operating and sustaining multi-sectoral services at its services structures ( ABAAD's Midway Houses (MWH) and Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS)) to respond to the GBV needs of women and girls’ survivors or at risks.
Strengthening Protection and Empowerment of Women and Girls through Comprehensive Community-Based GBV Prevention and Response in Akkar With funding from OCHA, IRC will continue its ongoing strategy of increasing access to life saving SGBV prevention and response activities and is ongoing community-based interventions to women and girls who have survived or are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Building on the establishment of a comprehensive Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) program in Akkar since 2012, the IRC’s proposed intervention will continue to respond to the needs of women and girls affected by or at risk of SGBV through non focused psychosocial support, focused psychosocial support through dedicated curriculums, case management, community mobilization and risk mitigation activities. The modalities will include the operation of one mobile team to remote areas of the Akkar and Wadi Khaled.  The core purpose of this programming is to fulfill the necessary needs of women and girls through the aforementioned support activities in order to contribute to a strengthened capacity against risks tailored to SGBV.. The IRC will also strengthen the protective environment through capacity building with local organizations and associations and will train SGBV and non-SGBV actors on skills and knowledge critical to the provision of quality services for women and girls including safe referrals.

IRC will continue to support the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) mobile team in Akkar where there is a critical gap in services available for SGBV survivors. IRC has begun direct service provision in Akkar since 2012, though the needs far exceed the capacity of IRC to fully respond. LRC is well positioned to provide these critical services given their extensive acceptance in communities across Lebanon, including access to areas where many other organizations are not permitted. IRC and LRC will implement a similar model of capacity building and support to continue mobile team services in Akkar and Wadi Khaled. As well, IRC will work with LRC to build sustainable GBV capacity across the organization through GBV core concepts to frontline workers and targeted capacity building based on a jointly developed training plan.
  
The IRC will aim to achieve the following results:
1.	Women and adolescent girls affected by or at risk of SGBV have access to critical response and prevention services through the mobile approach
2.	A protective environment for women and girls within their communities is created through community mobilization and engagement with communities
3.	Capacity of local actors and community members to provide quality comprehensive SGBV response and prevention services through the mobile approach is strengthened
Community Based and Survivor Centric Response to SGBV While Lebanon is in its seventh year as the highest per capita country hosting refugees from Syria, the civil society is witnessing a decrease in funding associated with response to the refugee population, paired with decrease in the number of programs that provided pro-bono or subsidized SRHR, shelter, and protection services which have been detrimental in assisting other at-risk vulnerable groups in Lebanon such as the LGBTQI+ communities.

We continue to witness an incessant need to improve both the content, structure, and method of the service provision, as well as its sustainability, especially that the already existing platforms tend to fall short of addressing the unique specificities of marginalized groups and the most at-risk populations most vulnerable to Gender Based Violence (GBV) and protection risks including Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) most notably those people with alternative sexualities. Only a few national organizations currently work on filling the aforementioned identified needs, and they are currently facing sustainability challenges due to the shifting in funding trends towards stabilization since the beginning of 2017. 

By the Community Based and Survivor Centric Response to SGBV, MOSAIC proposes to address these gaps through sustaining already existing tailored services focusing on marginalized groups including sexual minorities strengthening outreach and community mobilization mechanisms to empower the most affected communities to foster safe environments and building the capacities of GBV and non-GBV actors as means to mainstream non-discrimination, and to extend the outreach beyond the capital to areas of Tripoli, Akkar, Nabatieh, South, Bekaa, Hermel, and Mount Lebanon. 

The services include both response and relief: they range from case management, emergency safe accommodation, legal and psycho-social support, CMR, to a community consent-centric healing and empowerment sessions aimed at increasing community based solidarity to sustain protection. Our hotline is available around the clock for more immediate assistance.
Addressing urgent shelter needs of Palestinian refugees from Syria and elderly Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, in Saida District, Lebanon The project aims to ensure 130 highly vulnerable Palestinian refugee families from Syria (PRS) and 50 highly vulnerable elderly Palestinian refugees from Lebanon (PRL) are able to access 180 affordable shelter units at minimum standards in Saida District, Lebanon. The project will support households to rehabilitate their shelters themselves through a self-aid conditional cash approach, as well as securing tenure for a minimum period of 12 months for each family, with rent-reduced or frozen options.

The project will ensure targeting of highly vulnerable PRS and PRL beneficiaries through identification and selection through PU-AMI needs assessments, taking into consideration social, economic and technical criteria. People with Special Needs (PWSN) will be prioritized, including all targeted PRL households having at least one member above 60 years old. 

Since 2012, PU-AMI has completed 14 shelter rehabilitation projects supported by multiple donors (ECHO, UNHCR, and BPRM) in 3 governorates, meaning strong experience of the organisation and recognition within the Lebanon shelter sector. This methodology has proved to be very efficient in supporting the most vulnerable households in need of shelter rehabilitation.
Enhanced Shelter intervention to provide humanitarian assistance to Syrian Refugee and Host Community People with Specific Needs (PwSN) affected by the Syrian Crisis living in the Bekaa Valley. (as per technical review feedback project is now 100% shelter / Health component omitted). This project will target and provide direct immediate humanitarian assistance to 1,047 People with Specific Needs (PwSN) living in the Bekaa Valley over a 9 month period, from 15 June 2018 to 15 March 2019. The focus of this project will be on meeting the specific needs of individual PwSN cases, both Syrian refugees and vulnerable Lebanese, through enhanced shelter interventions, and on improving access to public buildings (e.g. barrier free access) for PwSN in Bekaa. Medair will adopt a person focused case management approach, seeking to first understand the specific needs of individual PwSN and then address those needs through specific and tailored Shelter interventions, while mainstreaming Protection. PwSN is an under-served vulnerable group that continues to face challenges in accessing their basic rights and services. With the exit of key actors in Bekaa in recent months, Medair (along with sector working groups in Bekaa) has identified a gap / need in supporting PwSN, through expanding and improving its current PwSN work. This project will build upon Medair’s experience and expertise in shelter, specifically PwSN shelter interventions, and leverage Medair’s key programmatic strengths in health and data collection, to enhance the PwSN approach. The project will build on the current Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and develop a more integrated person focused response for PwSN. The Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) will contribute to these activities.
Life-saving hospitalization support to elderly Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Based on the “National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017” – there are 174,422 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (PRL). The majority of them live in one of the 12 official UNRWA camps and 42 unofficial gatherings across the country. In addition, since 2011 over 32,000 additional Palestinian refugees have fled the conflict in Syria and now live in very difficult circumstances in Lebanon (according to OCHA’s Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 32). The Palestinian camps and gatherings in Lebanon represented some of the worst living conditions in Lebanon even before the influx of new refugees from Syria (PRS), which resulted in even more overcrowding and strain on the existing infrastructure and services. 

Elderly PRL and PRS (individuals over 60 years old) are particularly vulnerable as 87.6 % of all elderly PRL have some type of chronic disease, while 85.7 % of all elderly PRS have some type of chronic disease (according to the UNRWA and AUB study published in 2015). Elderly PRL and PRS individuals diagnosed with some type of chronic or catastrophic disease in need of immediate life-saving support who cannot cover the cost of hospitalization (which is often required for patients with catastrophic disease and can cost more than USD $5,000) simply cannot cover the cost and are at extreme risk.

Welfare Association – Lebanon branch (WA) has been providing hospitalization support to PRL and PRS diagnosed with chronic and catastrophic diseases (including elderlies) since 1996 through funds secured from various individuals, fundraising events, and from institutional donors. Since 1996 till today more than 1,000 Palestine refugees have been provided with hospitalization support.

Through this project, WA aims to provide financial assistance for hospitalization of 140 elderly patients (PRS and PRL) and alleviate the financial burden faced by some of the most marginalized individuals in Lebanon.

The project was developed in coordination with UNRWA and it will be implemented in very close collaboration with their Medical Hardship Fund (proposed action is a continuation of the collaboration established between WA and UNRWA since 2012 – when CARE (Catastrophic Ailment Relief Program) was established. The CARE program was a predecessor of the Medical Hardship Fund (MHF) and it was partially supported by WA’s core funding as well.
Active Ageing Houses - Reducing protection risks and improving the living conditions of elderly Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Based on the “National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017” – there are 174,422 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (PRL). The majority of them live in one of the 12 official UNRWA camps and 42 unofficial gatherings across the country. In addition, since 2011 over 32,000 additional Palestinian refugees have fled the conflict in Syria and now live in very difficult circumstances in Lebanon (according to OCHA’s Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 32). The Palestinian camps and gatherings in Lebanon represented some of the worst living conditions in Lebanon even before the influx of new refugees from Syria (PRS), which resulted in even more overcrowding and strain on the existing infrastructure and services. 

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (PRL) and Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) are not eligible for support provided by the Government of Lebanon. People with Specific Needs (PwSNs) – defined as older persons, individuals suffering from trauma, socially marginalized groups and persons with disabilities (PwDs) – are one of the most marginalized groups among the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The target population of this proposed intervention - elderlies living in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon – represent both a clear group of PwSNs and a marginalized and vulnerable group (refugees, including PRS, PRL, Syrian and the host community).

The elderlies represent approximately 28.5% and 18.4% of the total population of PRL and PRS respectively. Due to their age, the living conditions in the Palestinian refugee camps, and the general difficulties faced by the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (mostly due to the laws prohibiting them to work and own property) many of them are facing risks of isolation and cannot access even basic services

Through this project, Welfare Association – Lebanon branch (WA) and the local implementing partner will provide specialised services for elderlies living in three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The services will be provided through the 3 centres managed by WA’s partner. The specialised services will include: physiotherapy for people with disabilities, financial support to cover the most urgent needs (emergency one-off protection cash), case management (home visits, referrals, etc.), mapping and classification of the needs of the elderlies etc.

As such, this project will target one of the most marginalised groups (PRS and PRL elderlies) – also identified as one of the target groups for this allocation. In addition, the project will directly contribute to one of the LCRP strategic objectives - Ensure protection of vulnerable populations.
Specialized Healthcare Services for old people ( Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian) and Children with Disability (Palestinian Refugees from Syria, Palestinian Refugees from Lebanon and Syrian Refugees) (Health - Child Protection) Provide primary healthcare services for the most vulnerable Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese old people, through fixed outlet at Association Des Jeunes Islamiques (Rahma Hospital) that includes Cardiology, Neurology, Orthopedic, Urologist, General Practitioner and Nutrition services with radiology and laboratory procedures, rehabilitation services (physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy),medications, assistive aids and medical equipment.
We will eliminate the “Limited mobility” barrier for the old people to access healthcare services in their communities through a bus designed to be fully functional primary mobile care clinics owned by the organization.
Because several psychological interventions have demonstrated efficacy in improving health outcomes, old people who have complex psychological and social needs will benefit from an approach that promote mental health and psycho-social support
Also as an exit strategy for the ongoing program entitled “Specialized Services for Refugee Children with Disabilities” covered by Lebanon Humanitarian Fund, we will continue to offer rehabilitation services for the children with disability as outpatients, especially for the severe cases.
Winterization Assistance for PRS in Lebanon and vulnerable PRL in Beqa’a area The proposed project will cover the operational gap faced by UNRWA in the provision of winterization assistance to all Palestinian refugees from Syria across Lebanon and the most vulnerable Palestine refugees in Lebanon residing in Beqa’a area (under the Social Safety Net Programme - SSNP). The project will provide the targeted group with a winterization assistance package of USD 75 per month for a period of five months per household. The winterization package will support families to compensate for additional needs and coping with harsh weather conditions.
Lebanon NGO Forum The proposed project aims at enhancing the coordination with and among local and national NGOs in Lebanon, contributing to the overall localization agenda.
Care for the Wellbeing of Elderlies  (CWE) Relief International (RI) proposes the 11-month project, “Care for the Wellbeing of Elderlies” (CWE), that will significantly contribute to improving the well-being of elderlies of all nationalities falling within the project’s target locations. The CWE Project has a two-pronged approach: 1) Ensuring access to primary health care, including mental health services, for elderly Syrian refugees and Lebanese in Arsal and, 2) Supporting access to secondary health care for elderly Syrian refugees in North, BML, and Bekaa by covering the portion of hospitalization bills not already covered by UNHCR. The first component of the project will include a strong community mobilization and prevention component, build the capacity of the Al Amal Medical Center in Arsal to become an age friendly PHC in accordance with WHO guidelines, and ensure the provision of services for both Syrian and Lebanese elderlies residing in the catchment area of the primary health care center. The second component of the project will fill a significant unaddressed gap in elderly Syrian refugees’ access to secondary health care across three governorates in Lebanon. During the course of the project, RI will continue to support Al Amal Medical Center to build its capacity for entry into the MOPH Network, about which RI is already in close coordination with MOPH through its existing health program in partnership with UNHCR the approval for entry into the network is currently pending at central level and the aim is to have it finalized by July 2019.
Specialized Services for Refugee Children with Disabilities – Child Protection Renewal for the ongoing project with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs entitled “Specialized Services for Refugee Children with Disabilities”, which aim to mainstream children with disability into public education after providing comprehensive service package including special education, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and psycho-social support for the most vulnerable Lebanese and refugees (Syrians and Palestinians) children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities, sensory disabilities, autism, physical and multiple disabilities.
Protecting survivors and women at high-risk of SGBV through safe shelter and multi-sectorial support - (95% GBV - 5% CP) Established in 2005, KAFA envisions a society where all its citizens live free of violence and exploitation, where they have equal access to opportunities and results and their human rights are respected, protected and enjoyed. Applying a holistic strategy to ending Violence Against Women, KAFA’s proven impact ranges from legal and policy advocacy, awareness-raising campaigns, research and training, and the delivery of protection services. 

The aim of this project is to provide efficient, comprehensive, and multi-sectorial protection services to one of the most vulnerable population groups in Lebanon, namely survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SBGV) and victims of sexual trafficking and labor exploitation, regardless of their nationality, religion, or ethnicity. 

Specifically, this project enables the provision of social, legal, psycho-social, medical, and mental-health services to the highly vulnerable population of SGBV survivors in Lebanon. Beneficiaries are either survivors or women at high-risk of SGBV, and include women and girls from the following nationalities: Lebanese, Syrian, PRL, PRS, as well as women migrant domestic workers (MDWs) from other nationalities (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya etc.). 

This project also addresses Child Protection (CP) priorities among children with specific needs (PwSNs), a population group highly vulnerable to abuse, neglect and exploitation. This small component of the project (5%) entails the training of selected service providers working in NGOs that are well-known for their impactful provision of protection services to PwSNs, namely Arc-En-Ciel, the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union (LPHU), and Rayon d’Espoir.

The activities covered in this projects will be implemented in the Bekaa and in Mount Lebanon, through KAFA’s Support Center in Chtoura and at KAFA’s Shelter in Mount Lebanon.