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Humanitarian Fund in Turkey 2nd Standard Allocation Paper August 2016 www.unocha.org The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors. Coordination Saves Lives Humanitarian Fund (HF) in Turkey 2nd 2016 Standard Allocation Paper | 1 I. Introduction o This allocation paper is issued by the Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator (DRHC), in consultation with the Clusters and Advisory Board of the HF in Turkey, to set the funding priorities for the 2016 2nd Standard Allocation. o A total amount of USD 30 million is available for this allocation. This paper outlines the allocation priorities and rationale for the prioritization. o This allocation paper also provides strategic direction and guidance to partners for the allocation process. I. Allocation Strategy and Rationale II. Situation Overview According to the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for Syria, an estimated 13.52 million people, including six million children are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance and protection. 6.5 million people, including 2.8 million children, are displaced within Syria and 4.2 million are registered refugees in neighboring countries and in North Africa. Over 1.2 million people have been displaced to date this year, many for the second or third time. The humanitarian situation across the country has deteriorated with an increase in the targeting of civilian infrastructure, and an increase in internal displacement. The number of people in-need living in besieged and hard-to-reach areas has risen to 5.47 million, including some 590,000 across in 18 besieged locations, which the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien confirmed in a Security Council briefing in July. The period since the 1st Standard Allocation has been characterized by evolving security and conflict dynamics which have had sever negative implications for the protection of civilians and humanitarian access across the country. An increase in fighting in the north has resulted in many civilian casualties and the displacement of tens of thousands. Populations throughout the northern countryside of Aleppo have been particularly impacted by the conflict, displacing thousands to areas along the Turkish border. Predictable humanitarian access into Eastern Aleppo is limited, given the increased hostilities along the Castello road. In Idleb, an intensifying aerial campaign has resulted in the displacement of several thousand families, and the destruction of health and educational facilities in locations across the governorate. Civilians continued to be exposed to indiscriminate attacks and deprivation as parties to the conflict obstruct access routes to Eastern Aleppo city and between cities and residential areas throughout northern governorates. Consequently, prices for fuel, essential food items and water surged in several locations, with implications for both food and water security of affected populations. Currently, it is estimated that some 4.9 million people are living in hard-to-reach locations. This represents an increase of 110,000 people in besieged locations and 800,000 in hard-to-reach locations, further highlighting the increasing challenges for humanitarians seeking to assist people across Syria. The continued absence of full and sustained access to besieged and hard-to-reach areas is exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. The provision of partial approvals by the authorities for some requests submitted combined with insecurity prevents United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Coordination Saves Lives | www.unocha.org Humanitarian Fund (HF) in Turkey 2nd 2016 Standard Allocation Paper | 2 humanitarian partners from delivering fully on plans to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians in these areas. In some areas, insecurity has also prevented humanitarian actors from maintaining access to civilian populations living in besieged and hard-to-reach locations. Tensions and hostilities between the Government of Syria and other parties to the "Four Towns Agreement" have left over 62,000 civilians in the towns of Madaya, Foah, Zabadani and Kefraya cut off from humanitarian assistance since April. Humanitarian access to ISIL-held areas of Deir-ez-Zor and Ar-Raqqa remained circumscribed due to ISIL’s restrictive policy vis-à- vis humanitarian actors as well as insecurity, though alternative modalities for aid delivery have continued to be employed in coordination with local actors. The continued closure of the Nusaybin border crossing and the absence of viable alternatives prevented hundreds of thousands of people in need in Al- Hasakeh from receiving assistance, leading the United Nations to initiate planning for a costly air-bridge as a last resort. Increased fighting in Ar-Raqqa, Rural Damascus and Dar’a were reported to have contributed to displacement of thousands of households while also threatening populations’ access to markets, water supply and agricultural lands sustaining local communities. III. Allocation Strategic Priorities This Allocation Strategy is in line with all three of the objectives articulated within the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), namely “Saving lives”, “Enhancing protection” and “Supporting resilience” of affected populations. Programmatically, emphasis is placed on seasonality including winterization, whilst geographically priority will be given to projects targeting populations in besieged and hard to reach locations. In all sectors priority is to ensure the integration of protection principles and GBV risk reduction strategies into programming1. In addition to the above, the allocation underscores the humanitarian community’s joint commitment to support and reinforce the response capacity of national humanitarian actors and therefore priority will be given to projects submitted to national NGOs. 1 http://gbvguidelines.org/ United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Coordination Saves Lives | www.unocha.org Humanitarian Fund (HF) in Turkey 2nd 2016 Standard Allocation Paper | 3 IV. Cluster Allocations Shelter / NFI Cluster – Allocation of 4 million USD Shelter and NFI support remains a primary need for the crisis-affected population. It is estimated that 2.4 million people need shelter support and 5.3 million people need NFI support. Syrians remain the primary providers of emergency shelter for IDPs. Adequate shelter stock remains insufficient. Evictions, insecure tenure and repeated displacements remain a chronic problem. Access to and availability of NFI items remains limited. Currently, an estimated 6.5 million people are displaced, 1.7 million live in collective centres and 7.8 million have insufficient access to markets. 1.2 million housing units have been damaged and 400,000 destroyed. People - residents, IDPs and hosts- who live without shelter or in damaged or unfinished buildings are considered most at risk to the threats associated with not meeting their livelihoods, WASH, education and other needs. Within households, the young, women headed households, and the elderly are most impacted by a family’s inability to meet its own shelter and NFI needs. Given the cyclical nature of displacement, loss of NFIs and damages to shelters the displaced, hosts and the crisis affected often need repeated assistance. The dynamics of the conflict are continually changing and affecting the safety of civilians and the access by the Cluster membership. The intensification of airstrikes in South/South-West Aleppo Governorates, Idleb Governorates and the frontlines moving towards the Turkey border in the area of Azaz have determined a constant status of insecurity and a protracted and repeated need of shelter and NFI. The risk of delivering goods from Turkey to Syria has significantly increased. In order to mitigate these risks most organizations halted their shipments or reduced the amount of goods crossing the border. KEY ISSUES AND PRIORITIES: The Shelter/NFI Cluster through the TWiG has just finalized the Guidance Note on the minimal standards for the winter season response and will collect soon member organizations winter plans in order to measure the gap in funding for the coming winter season. Unfortunately due to the on-going emergency characterized by multiple displacements the partners have to shift resources very often from the winter allocations in order to prioritize other type of response until the start of the winter season. Therefore this situation does not allow the Cluster to have predictability on funds allocated to the winter response and gap calculation varies consistently till the end of September. The total population in need of winterization every year has been estimated to be approximately 1,8 M people. According to the 2015 mid-year report from Cluster members 1,8 M people is the target for NFI assistance during winter season. The Cluster aims to address through the HF allocation the population most in need of winter items in the less accessible areas (HTR and besieged less reached by the Cluster). Moreover the most prioritized areas will be the ones where the fuel is most expensive, with the highest concentration of IDPs. The single women headed HH will be prioritized on the rest of the IDPs. One of the key needs of the people exposed to harsh weather conditions is the fuel (diesel fuel, kerosene fuel, coal, timber,