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Multi-sectoral Emergency Response to Support Drought and Conflict Affected Communities in Harunka Woreda Zone 3, Afar Regional State. ltpgtASDEPO is proposing an integrated multi-sectoral emergency response project targeting conflict affected IDPs and host communities in Harunka woredas Zone 3 Afar Regional State. The proposed project intends to scale up ASDEPO’s ongoing humanitarian response activities in the woreda which targets IDPs and host communities. Through this project, ASDEO will support the IDPs and host communities in Harunka woredas who are in need of immediate lifesaving humanitarian support. The project integrates Health, WaSH, nutrition and agriculture response. The project is planned to be implemented in collaboration with Nexus Ethiopia and HEKS as sub-IPs who have sectorial expertise on WaSH and health. On the other hand, ASDEPO will also manage the implementation of nutrition and agriculture activities. Protection will also be mainstreamed across the thematic sectors to prevent and respond GBV, Priority for PwD and vulnerable groups. strengthen the sector specific needs. The proposed activities and the proportion of budget allocation for each sector is based on the woreda level needs informed by the multi sectoral assessment conducted for Zone 3 in general and Harunka Woreda in particular. The project integrates immediate lifesaving response activities and durable solutions that contribute for the recovery and resilience of the target populations. Key cross cutting areas are meaningfully mainstreamed across the project activities and reasonable resource is allocated for cross cutting activities. The project will be implemented in close collaboration and complementarity among the implementing partners and the government stakeholders. As part of the localization of aid efforts, ASDEPO is demonstrating strong capacities to enhance the organizational capacity of Nexus Ethiopia. It will scale up its good practices and closely collaborate towards the attainment of the project objectives. ASDEPO and the sub-IPs will ensure proper monitoring and evaluation activities to inform program management decisions with evidence from the field. Government counterparts will also conduct joint monitoring sessions periodically. ASDEPO and the implementing partners are active in the cluster system at national and sub-national level. The coordination and reporting of project activities to the donor and the clusters via Activityinfo will be strengthened. The project duration is 10 months for health and WASH as well as 12 months for nutrition and agriculture. The total budget of the project is 1,000,000 USD. Through this budget the project will directly reach 23,803 people in need in the woreda of which 58% are female and 31% are children as well as 42% are male. ltbrgtlt/pgt
Integrated multisectoral Emergency Response to Drought Affected Communities in Meket Woreda, North Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia ltpgtThe action addresses the immediate humanitarian needs of 49,634 droughts (and conflict) affected people in Meket Woreda  The project is designed and will be implemented by ZOA (lead and sector specialist for Agriculture and WASH Interventions), and local NGO (Action for Social Development and Environmental Protection Organization [ASDEPO] sub-applicant and sector specialist for Nutrition and Health) to address multisectoral Nutrition, Health, Agriculture and WASH needs of drought and conflict-affected community in Meket. The action follows a holistic and integrated approach that leverages the expertise, resources, and local experience of the partners and grassroots community and government structures. During the project design and the next phases of the project cycle management, ZOA and ASDEPO follow an approach of joint planning, implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian interventions that target the same people, at the same time, in the same place, based on a common objective and a shared analysis of needs and priorities.  ltbrgtThe project’s Agricultural intervention focuses on increasing targeted beneficiaries' food and nutrition security by creating access to agricultural inputs: provision of improved drought-resistant, nutrition-dense dense and agroecologically harmonized crop seeds, and fertilizers. The project’s agriculture intervention also focuses on the protection of productive livestock assets by providing animal health treatment and vaccination, promoting the production of animal feed through the provision of forage seed, creating access to basic services, and contributing to the protection of productive assets through the provision of multipurpose cash. The project’s Nutrition services include logistical support to smoothen commodity pipelines, and technical assistance to support health facilities (HFs), and frontline health workers in the prevention and treatment of Acute Malnutrition (AM), benefiting 17,200 individuals. The project’s WASH activities will seek to improve access to safe and clean water, sanitation facilities hygiene promotion, and WASH NFI supplies, reaching 14,880. Under Health, the project will assist vaccination campaigns, establish and support Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams, and health facilities (HFs) improve access to quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (RMNCH) services, and strengthen referral linkages. All proposed sectoral interventions are identified based on the rapid need assessment findings conducted in April 2024, and implementation of the action will be guided by the national/sub-national sectoral cluster standards.  The project will coordinate with other implementers in Meket woreda to avoid duplication of effort and resources.  Accordingly, a head of the project launching,  consultative meeting will be held with similar actors in the intervention areas including GOAL Ethiopia to discuss and define coordination mechanisms.lt/pgt
Integrated multi-sector response to Conflict Affected Communities in the Oromia region, Kelem Wellega zones, Dembi Dollo Town. ltpgtTo support the IDP and host communities in the Oromia region, Kelem Wellega zone, Dembi Dollo Town, Action Against Hunger, partnering with the Action for Social Development and Environmental Protection Organization (ASDEPO) (local implementing partner), designed a multi-sector humanitarian response that encompasses cash for rent(CFR), agriculture, nutrition, health, WASH, and protection as mainstream. It is believed that the provision of this multi-sectoral response will support the overall effort provided in the selected areas of the sectors for the beneficiaries. The action will support a total of 62,217 beneficiaries (women: 18,006, men: 14,172, girls: 15,465, boys: 14,574). Through the distribution of cash for rent(CFR) a total of 11,148 beneficiaries will be addressed . Similarly, this initiative will support 3,898 IDPs and 9,094 host communities from Dembi Dolo Town through Supporting early identification and referral of acute malnutrition through mass MUAC screening integrated with Vitamin A supplementation, de-worming, and GBV referral services supporting health health facilities on the treatment of severe acute malnutrition with complications in SC strengthening referral linkage services in accordance with the national protocol and SPHERE standard supporting health facilities in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition without complications in OTP supporting the implementation of a family MUAC approach and promotion and supporting the protection and support of maternity and similar nutrition support initiatives. Through the health sector, the action will reach 13,977 (4,193 IDPs and 9,784 host communities) at Dembi Tolo Town through supporting health facilities to provide primary health care services, revitalization of services in damaged health posts, organizing outreach programs for IDPs, supporting catch immunization campaigns, integrating MISP services, supporting GBV referral services and linkages with local government services (particularly BoWSA and Health), risk communication and community engagement activities, building the capacity of health services, providing clinical management of GBV, public health emergency management and disease surveillance, and other key guidelines such as IMNCI. The initiative will also support 2100 IDPs through cash intervention  and 2,500 individuals through agricultural commodity distribution  in Dembi Tolo Town. The WASH activities are in line with the prioritized activities per the allocation strategy and in line with addressing the needs of IDPs and host communities in Dembi Dolo town. The proposed WASH initiatives include rehabilitation and expansion of nonfunctional water schemes, capacity building for Water Management Committees (WASHCOs) and water offices and utilities, Construction of basic sanitation facilities (sex-segregated VIP latrines, hand washing stations) in protracted IDP sites, distribution of life-saving WASH NFIs and water treatment supplies, and hygiene and sanitation promotion initiatives ltbrgtlt/pgt
Commodity Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Commodity Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [1,114 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Freight Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Freight Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [1,449 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Ethiopia Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Livestock GHG Emissions in Oromia To extend Forest Service efforts to improve forest policies and practices internationally, address climate change, conserve and protect critical global forest environments and resources, and improve the lives of forest-dependent peoples by awarding grants to and entering into cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations, multilateral organizations, and other individuals, organizations, institutions, and governments engaged in forest conservation and management.
Freight Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Freight Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [1,114 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Commodity Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Commodity Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [1,449 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Freight Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Freight Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [476 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Commodity Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Commodity Cost for oil, vegetable can-6/4 L [1,004 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Pan Africa Conference & SPS Risk Analysis Workshop From May 16-27, 2016, The Pan African Conference on SPS Risk Analysis met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss the Advanced SPS regulation and risk assessment policy.
Commodity Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Commodity Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg - through World Food Program
Commodity Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Commodity Cost for corn-soy blend bag-25 kg [476 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Freight Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Food Aid (Food For Education) Freight Cost for oil, vegetable can-6/4 L [1,004 gross metric tons] - through World Food Program
Scientific Cooperation Research Program - Climate Resilient Livestock The Scientific Cooperation Research Program supports joint research, extension, and education projects lasting up to two years among domestic and international agricultural professionals. These projects address issues including agricultural trade and market access, animal and plant health, biotechnology, food safety and security, and sustainable natural resource management.
Scientific Cooperation Research Program - Smallholder Dairy Production The Scientific Cooperation Research Program supports joint research, extension, and education projects lasting up to two years among domestic and international agricultural professionals. These projects address issues including agricultural trade and market access, animal and plant health, biotechnology, food safety and security, and sustainable natural resource management.
Improving access to essential healthcare services and living conditions of the most vulnerable conflict-affected population in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts The project will contribute to improve the living-conditions and access to health, emergency and care services for vulnerable groups, mainly people with disabilities, elderly people, and people with restricted mobility. The program will focus on conflict-affected population, both host and IDPs in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv Oblasts. MdM will ensure the access to assistive devices through different mechanisms: (i) in collaboration with the public social and health institutions sheltering vulnerable groups to dignify the living-conditions and improve the quality of the care services (ii) through the provision of sub-grant to a national NGO to cover remote/rural areas in the newly accessible areas where elderly people and people with disabilities are facing constraints accessing humanitarian aid and basic services and (iii) through MdM Mobile Units in the dormitories and shelters where the more vulnerable internally displaced population is living.
Response to shelter and protection needs in Donetsk and Luhansk NGCA In line with its Protection mandate, Multi-Year Multi-Partner Protection and Solutions Strategy for Ukraine, and Country Operations Plan UNHCR addresses the needs of the persons affected by the conflict residing in Donetsk and Luhansk Non-Government Controlled Areas (NGCA).  Through interventions in the Protection and Shelter clusters, UNHCR contributes to the broader humanitarian response within the framework of IASC for the entire crisis-affected population. 

The armed conflict in Ukraine has caused large-scale destruction of houses, buildings and communal infrastructure. Though many homes have been repaired (either through humanitarian actors or by people themselves), the needs in NGCA in particular continue to exceed the current level of interventions by humanitarian actors. UNHCR shelter response in NGCA is foremost implemented directly by the respective field offices, following security and protection assessment and mainstreaming protection (including housing, land and property rights) into all shelter activities. 

As a consequence of the conflict and severe economic crises, many IDPs in Ukraine cannot count on existing traditional support mechanisms and communities living close to the contact line are in a particularly precarious situation, marked by security concerns, isolation, lack of access to basic services, and the constant threat of displacement. Their capacities to organize themselves and use their own strengths are significantly weakened. UNHCR will meet protection needs faced by communities along the contact line and exposed to the effects of the armed conflict through the support to social infrastructure, using a community-based approach. Community Support Projects (CPSs) will be implemented in response to these protection needs while strengthening local protection capacities to the extent possible.

UNHCR aims to respond to these emergency needs promoting access to protection, including access to basic essential services, for the most vulnerable, while also promoting the resilience of communities through the delivery of the following activities: 

1) Repair of private houses damaged by the armed conflict in both Donetsk and Luhansk NGCA, ranging from light to medium and heavy repairs. 
2) Community-based protection and support to peaceful coexistence through the implementation of Community Support Projects (CSPs)
Community empowerment and durable solutions though community-based protection for conflict affected hromadas in Donetsk Oblast Dorcas seeks to respond to the protracted humanitarian crisis and key protection concerns though Community empowerment and durable solutions by community-based protection for conflict affected hromadas in Donetsk Oblast. To ensure implementation of Humanitarian Exit strategy (SO3), substantial part of the project activities will be aimed at support and capacity building to local authorities for the provision of social protection services with gradual transfer of the response ownership. Considering exceptional vulnerability of elderly, disabled and women, these categories will be considered as a primary target group. 
The project will strengthen social cohesion in 4 conflict-affected communities, increase resilience of the most vulnerable conflict-affected residents, ensuring implementation of humanitarian exit strategy with gradual transfer ownership of the response to the local officials, NGOs, and CBOs.  
Multi-stakeholder and resource mobilisation approaches will lead to creation of community activist groups that include those most vulnerable (women, disabled, elderly) creation of community safety nets, groups of 20-25 elderly people, who at the end of the project will rebuild their potential and will start helping their same agers. Local authorities, directors of social service departments and social workers will receive training about the essence of social reforms, quality of social services, burnout prevention and motivation for improvement. These results will be reached in close cooperation with local NGOs and CBOs. Dorcas has a memorandum of understanding signed with Help Age, Caritas, and ICRC and relies on local CBOs in a substantial part of its daily operations. 
Interaction between the communities, local authorities NGOs and CBOs will be improved though round tables, joint events and projects, social media (creation and moderation of a community group in social networks). 
This project will contribute to Protection Cluster Objectives 1, 2, 3, Humanitarian response plan with a special focus on Humanitarian Exit Strategy.
Pilot launching of the mobile laboratory designed for PCR diagnostics of COVID-19 in Luhansk This project will contribute to addressing scale up in testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) among the urban residents of Luhansk NGCA, regardless of age and gender, by launching the PCR Mobile laboratory at the Center for Emergency and Disaster Medicine. This PCR Mobile laboratory was constructed with the project supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The current request for UHF allocation will include training ambulance team and laboratory staff, procurement of PCR kits and consumables, launch of pilot testing for the population and evaluation of the real capacity of the Mobile laboratory. These activities will be conducted by the WHO field office in Luhansk and will be monitored on an ongoing basis during of the project. The project will be implemented in three stages:
1. Training of the ambulance team and laboratory staff:
a) Nasopharyngeal sample collection and transportation
b) Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT), its use and result interpretation
c) PCR testing method of SARS-CoV-2 (Manual and automated RNA extraction methods, amplification method)
2. Pilot launch of the PCR Mobile lab:
a) Development of screening strategy of point-of-care (POC) testing with RDTs
b) Launch the testing process: systematic evaluation of testing and installed equipment, collection of data
c) Evaluation of the real testing capacity and organization functionality of Mobile lab based on the collected data for uninterrupted operation of Mobile Lab.
3. Official transfer of the PCR Mobile lab to the de-facto authorities.
Improving resilience on the conflict- and COVID-19- affected population in NGCA through the provision of food and health kits On February 24, the Russian president announced a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Minutes later, missiles/air raids hit all of Ukraine, including Kiev, shortly followed by a massive ground invasion from several directions, in a major escalation of the 2014 conflict and resulting in the siege of several major strategic Ukrainian cities such as Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mariupol, and Sumy. The Ukrainian president has since enacted martial law resulting in the general mobilization and management of the country by the military.

Multi-pronged assault were launched from Russian Federation, Belarus, and Crimea amp NGCA Donbas. Four major war theatres developed: Kyiv offensive, North-eastern Ukraine offensive, Eastern offensive amp Southern Ukraine offensive, while Russian military carried air/missile strikes far into Western Ukraine. Russian forces besieged a number of key cities: Chernihiv, Kharkov, Kherson, Kyiv, Mariupol, and Sumy. 

According to IOM on the 21st of April, the total number of internally displaced since the beginning of the war is over 7.7 million, 17 per cent of the country’s population women represent at least 60 per cent of those displaced. Most vulnerable profiles among IDPs identified so far include children, Women/Girls at risk, PWDs amp elderly. Persons living with disabilities, including children, are repeatedly facing increased horrendous conditions. The most reported pressing needs including those already evacuated or displaced, is support to scale-up reception capacities in places of arrivals of IDPs, provision of essential protection services such as psycho-social support, individual counselling and legal counselling.

Unfortunately, there is no specific need assessment for the current needs in NGCA, and conducting such an assessment at this time is faced with operational constraints. The latest needs assessment conducted by TGH in NGCA in December 2021 demonstrated that food (82.8% of the respondents) and hygiene assistance (63.3%) were two priority needs identified. 
With regards to hygiene, 29% of the respondents do not have regular access to hygiene supplies. 17% of the respondents reported on having diarrhoea related to water quality/food handlings which raise other concerns. 7.5% of the respondents do not have access to menstrual hygiene items and urological sanitary pads. The finding demonstrate high needs of respondents in access to hygiene supplies.

Those needs have increased significantly in NGCA due to the escalated hostilities. People in proposed settlements are staying in shelters with minimal access to food for several days. Most of grocery stores in towns/villages are not functional, or lacking supplies.