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Syrian Arab Republic Cross-Border Humanitarian Reach and Activities from Turkey October-2019 CONTEXT During the month of October, Conflict in northwest Syria significantly decreased after the Russian Federation’s (RF) Million announcement of a unilateral ceasefire by the Government of Syria forces on 31 August. During the reporting period, People reached in Oct-2019 despite the ceasefire announcement, GoS forces shelling impacted communities near the frontline areas in southern 2.07 Idlib governorate. There has been a slight increase in airstrikes compared to the previous period in September, but the rate of the attacks is not an indicative of a ground offensive. The GoS shelling and airstrikes remained focused on geographical areas in Kafr Nobol, Heish and Ma’arrat An- Nu’man and Kansaba sub-districts southwest of the M5. Barrel bombs were observed in Kabani in northeast Lattakia which is assessed to be targeting NSAGs command Million Million centers. 1.05 Female reached 1.02 Male reached In the second half of the month the level of hostilities increased in southern Idlib and Jisr-Esh-Shugur area. There has been a slight increase in airstrikes compared to the previous period in September, but the rate of the attacks is not an 0.64 Million 0.41 Million 0.55 Million 0.47 Million indicative of a ground offensive. The GoS shelling and airstrikes remained focused on geographical areas in Kafr Nobol, Heish and Ma’arrat An- Nu’man and Kansaba sub-districts southwest of the M5 and on Kabani in northeast Women reached Girls reached Men reached Boys reached Lattakia. Most of the airstrikes concentrated in Kafr Nobol subdistrict, including Hazarin, Maar Tahroma, Sheikh Mustafa, Kafr Nobol, and others in Jisr-Ash-Shugur, Jisr-Ash-Shugur sub-district. Civilian casualties were reported as a result of the airstrikes hitting many residential areas. Between 25-17 October, shelling reportedly affected 34 villages including Kafr Nobol, Maar Tahroma, Janudiyeh and Badama in Idleb governorate; seven villages in Hama Million governorate; and two villages in Aleppo governorate. Over the same time period, local sources reported that airstrikes Interventions in Oct-2019 affected Kabani in Lattakia governorate, and seven villages including Maar Tahroma and Kafr Nobol in Idleb 1.18 governorate. Three women were reportedly killed in Badama and one child in Janudiyeh in Idleb Governorate due to shelling. Seven civilians were reportedly killed and 17 were injured in shelling on an open market place in Jisr-Esh- Shugur city in Idleb Governorate. Million Million f 0.96 Medical procedures i 0.22 Protection interventions NUMBER OF SUB-DISTRICTS/COMMUNITIES NUMBER OF COMMUNITIES INTER-SECTOR COVERAGE REACHED REACHED BY INTER-SECTOR (IS) SEVERITY Severity 1 2 3 4 5 6 scale Minor Moderate Major Sever Critical Catastrophic Problem Problem Problem Problem Problem Problem Al-Hasakeh 79 Communities Aleppo 0 46 465 171 7 3 Sub-districts 1 reported Ar-Raqqa reported 0 45K 1,470K 489K 26K 0 Idleb 764 IS people Lattaki reached Out of total Communities Oct-2019 IS PIN in Hama 272 sub-districts reported 0 69K 1,934K 1,053K 65K 98K Deir-ez-Zor reached Tartou communities NUMBER OF PEOPLE/COMMUNITIES REACHED IN Communities 2 67 632 215 7 2 Homs OTHER LOCATIONS [NOT IN NORTH-WEST (NW)] reported 0 63K 1,957K 849K 36K 418 Communities reached in Oct-2019 IS people reached # of sector reported 3,377 People reached IS PIN in 0 74K 1,726K 763K 28K 304 1 - 3 2019 Jan-Oct Damascus Rural Damascus reached 4 - 6 1 24 Communities reported communities Quneitra 7 - 9 Dar'a As-Sweida Communities reached in 2019 Creation date: 19 December 2019 Source: Information as reported by partners and clusters for Oct-2019 Jan- Sep Feedback: sapkota1@un.org The count of people reached may include duplicate count of same people assisted by more than one type of activities within a sector. Cross-Border Humanitarian Reach and Page2 SECTOR ACTIVITIES Activities from Turkey - Oct 2019 /12 People reached numbers reported are for Oct-2019 only. Education WASH Education cluster provided children and adolescents with regular self-learning materials and digital learning materials, provision/rehabilitation of water and sanitation WASH cluster reached beneficiaries with water provision via existing networks, water trucking and private boreholes, household water treatments, maintenances/ facilities in TLS/ schools, Rehabilitation of learning centers, incentives/allowances for teaching staff, non-formal education (NFE), professional development to cleanings of communal sewages, constructions or rehabilitations of communal latrines and household, Solid waste management, hygiene kits distribution, hygiene teaching staff (active learning, self-learning, life skills), textbooks, life skills based trainings, basic education materials, psychological support and recreational promotion and vector control. Assitance provided at the community, camps, collective center and schools level. activities, provision of fuel for heating in learning centers and teaching kits, develop & strengthen M&E capacities of education actors, early childhood education (ECE) / Nutrition early childhood development (ECD) and awareness raising campaigns. Nutrition cluster supported and provided IYCF-E messages by outreach workers, BMS supports and re-lactation supports for 0-6 month year old infants; children lipid- based nutrient supplements, complementary foods, inpatient SAM treatments, MAM treatments, vitamin A, malnutrition screenings, multiple micronutrients; health Early Recovery staff trained on IYCF and CMAM guidelines; lactating women’s receive vitamin A; PLWs reached with MAM treatments, counselled on appropriate IYCF, screened for Since the beginning of the year (January - October 2019), Early Recovery partners reached 984,302 direct beneficiaries in 68 subdistricts and 238 communities. In malnutrition, supplemented with multiple micronutrients, received food assistance and non-food items; psychosocial counselling sessions for caregivers with children particular, 819,143 directly benefitted from the rehabilitation of access to basic utilities (electricity, gas, water, sewage), 37,587 from short-term work opportunities less than 2 years old. created, and 30,702 from removal of debris and waste. The remaing ER activities mainly focused on the entrepreneurial activities for 30,593 direct beneficiaries, vocational and skills training activities from which 26,564 directly benefitted, on basic housing repair support for 9,085, on market-based modalities assistance to Protection vulnerable HHs to the benefit of 8,388 people and on the rehabilitation of other social infrastructure for 6,315 people. Protection cluster provided awareness raising through campaigns and contact initiatives, case management, child protection and psychosocial support, including parenting programmes, develop community level referral pathways, legal assistance, material/cash assistance, outreach activities, psychosocial support, recreation FSL and early childhood development kits, risk education, specialised child protection services, training of front line responders and humanitarian actors, women and girls In October 2019, a total of 1,195,471 beneficiaries were reached with food baskets (through in kind, cash or voucher); 87,522 beneficiaries reached with emergency accessing safe spaces and other socio-economic support. food rations (RTEs [ready to eat rations], cooked meals and one-off food basket); 56,974 beneficiaries reached with mixed food items, 754,017 beneficiaries reached with bread/flour distribution. GBV FSL Cluster reached from January to October 395,337 beneficiaries with agriculture and livelihoods. GBV SC provided case management and PSS to GBV survivors, organized psychosocial recreational and skills building activities for women and girls accessing safe spaces and continued investing in the capacity building of GBV organizations to enhance the quality of services. For this month, the GBV SC kicked off its Capacity Shelter Building Taskforce (CBTF) and continued the rollout of the GBV Awareness Raising Toolkit Shelter cluster provided rental assistance, construction materials/tools, emergency shelter kits (e.g. tents) and emergency shelter; also rehabilitation of private housing and collective centers. Moreover, shelter cluster provided information/counselling on housing, land & property rights. CCCM CCCM cluster tracked 158,763 IDPs and has coordinated the provision of lifesaving multi-sectoral response to 527,867 IDPs in October 2019. NFI Health NFI cluster provided NFI kits (in-kind, cash, voucher) and training of stakeholders on resilience oriented NFI skills and capacities. Health cluster reached in October 2019 to 875,445 outpatient consultations; 9,063 people with referrals; supported 13,979 people with physical rehabilitation and supported 4,680 people with mental health consultations. 4 5 7 SECTOR SUMMARY people reached by governorate Sub-districts number of Al- Rural Sector People reached Aleppo Ar-Raqqa As-Sweida Damascus Dar'a Deir-ez-Zor Hama Homs Idleb Lattakia Quneitra Tartous reported organizations Hasakeh Damascus 1 Education 1,179K 57 76 530K 66K 15K 250 566K 412 cumulative since Jan-2019 2 c Early Recovery 984K 68 49 769K 12K 22K 14K 167K b cumulative since Jan-2019 3.2 Livelihood 395K 41 34 221K 90 5K 170K 3.3 FSL e Food Baskets 1,195K 35 15 308K 887K 4 j Shelter 47K 17 17 13K 34K 5 NFI NFI 87K 23 16 16K 71K 6 k WASH 2,126K 33 63 574K 1,552K 7 h Nutrition 137K 35 17 50K 86K 8.1 Gender-based 40K 26 19 18K 241 22K violence