HUMANITARIAN HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMME CYCLE 2020 RESPONSE PLAN ISSUED JANUARY 2020 OPT Advanced Copy 1 HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OVERVIEW 2020 About Get the latest updates This document is consolidated by OCHA on behalf of the Humanitarian Country OCHA coordinates humanitarian action to ensure Team and partners. It provides a shared understanding of the crisis, including the crisis-affected people receive the assistance and protection they need. It works to overcome obstacles most pressing humanitarian need and the estimated number of people who need that impede humanitarian assistance from reaching assistance. 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It provides the latest verified information on needs and delivery of the humanitarian response as well as financial contributions. www.hum-insight.com The Financial Tracking Service (FTS) is the primary provider of continuously updated data on global humanitarian funding, and is a major contributor to strategic decision making by highlighting gaps and priorities, thus contributing to effective, efficient and principled humanitarian assistance. fts.org/appeals/2019 02 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 04 Foreword by the Humanitarian Coordinator 36 Part 3: Sectoral Objectives and Responses 06 Response Plan Overview Overview of Sectoral Response Response by Strategic Objective, Needs and Planned Camp Coordination and Camp Management Response Early Recovery 22 HRP Key Figures Education 24 Historic Trends Emergency Telecommunications Crisis Context Food Security Part 1: Strategic Response Priorities 48 Health 28 Humanitarian Consequences Prioritized for Response 52 Logistics Strategic Objectives and Response Approach Nutrition Optional: Use of Multi-Purpose Cash Protection Operational Capacity and Access Shelter / Shelter NFIs Part 2: Monitoring and Accountability Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Monitoring Part 4: Refugee Response Plan Accountability to Affected Populations Part 5: Annexes Indicators and Targets Response Analysis Costing Methodology Participating Organizations Planning Figures by Sector Planning Figures by Administrative Level What if We Fail to Respond? How to Contribute Acronyms End Notes 03 HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OVERVIEW 2020 Children in Gaza, June 2018 © Photo by WFP/Wissam Nassar 04 FOREWORD BY THE HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR Foreword by the Humanitarian Coordinator For this, the final year of the 2018- 2019, as detailed in the Context of the Crisis undermining hopes for a the two-state 2020 cycle, humanitarian partners are section below. Despite this, the humanitarian solution. Throughout the oPt, humanitarian appealing for a total of $348 million for the situation continues to deteriorate, internal organizations are also facing an increasingly Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) in the Palestinian divisions remain entrenched and difficult operational context, posing ever occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). This is recurrent escalations of violence threaten to greater challenges to our ability to operate similar to the $350 million requested in 2019, ignite a wider conflict. The “Great March of due to restrictions, political considerations, but significantly lower than the $550 million Return” demonstrations continue, adding to and attacks designed to delegitimize sought in the 2018 appeal. The decrease the casualty caseload and to the pressure on humanitarian action. does not reflect a reduction in the scope the already overstretched health system. In This adverse political and resource climate of need, but rather an acknowledgement addition to the continuing high rates of food will require member states to increase their of continue underfunding for humanitarian insecurity, poverty, and unemployment, there funding rates to enable us to provide basic operations throughout the oPt: by are increasing signs of a deterioration in the services for the most vulnerable and protect end-November, only approximately 60 per social fabric in Gaza. the rights of Palestinians under occupation. cent of the sum requested for the 2019 HRP This includes the thousands of families who An increase in humanitarian funding must was secured, which, in real terms, represents face legal action or eviction due to their be complemented by support for operational a reduction in funding. This is despite the inability to pay rent and other expenses, space in the face of increasing threats, and World Bank’s projection that economy in the as well as reports of widespread drug by political engagement to address the oPt “is expected to slip into a recession in addiction, a rise in suicides and a growing violations of international law that are at 2020 and 2021,” a fact likely to increase the “brain drain”, as the young and educated try the heart of the protection crisis in the oPt. 1 scope of humanitarian hardship. to leave Gaza. The situation of children is The 2020 HRP will maintain the centrality of Some 2.4 million people have been identified particularly worrying, as demonstrated by protection at all levels of humanitarian action, as in need of humanitarian assistance the rise in child labour and child marriage, as a shared system-wide responsibility, and protection in 2020, or one in every and the 250,000 children suffering from to enable Palestinians to cope with, and two Palestinians in the oPt: the full range severe or moderate mental health disorders. overcome, the effects of the protracted crisis of these needs is set out in detail in the Failure to assist these vulnerable groups will while more sustainable solutions are sought. accompanying Humanitarian Needs further aggravate negative coping strategies Overview (HNO). Of these, 1.5 million of the and undermine resilience. most vulnerable will be targeted, a slight While the situation in the West Bank, increase from 1.4 million in 2019. However, including East Jerusalem, is less severe, this means that nearly one million vulnerable settlement expansion, settler violence, people, mainly in the Gaza Strip, will not access restrictions, demolitions and receive any assistance through the 2020 evictions have increased during 2019, HRP, even if the HRP is fully funded. intensifying the coercive environment on Gaza has registered some improvements in vulnerable Palestinian communities and 05 HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OVERVIEW 2020 Response Plan Overview PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) OPERATIONAL PARTNERS 2.4M 1.5M 348M 83 1 2 3 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1: The rights of STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2: The basic needs STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3: The capacity Palestinians living under occupation, of vulnerable Palestinians living under of vulnerable Palestinians to cope with including those living under the blockade occupation are met through the provision and overcome protracted crisis, including and other restrictions, are protected, of quality basic services and improved from environmental threats, is supported, respected and promoted in accordance access to resources, in accordance with while solutions to violations and other root with International Humanitarian Law the rights of protected persons under IHL. causes of threats and shocks are pursued. (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL), while duty-bearers are increasingly held to account. Palestinian demonstration on the beach near the fence, protesting against the naval blockade, September 2018. © Photo by Ashraf Amra 06 NEEDS AND PLANNED RESPONSE Needs and Planned Response ¥ PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED WOMEN CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY Lebanon P 2.4M 1.5M 49.8% 48.2% 5.8%Al Qunaytirah Acre P Syria Overview map More on pages 22-23 P Tiberias P Haifa Nazareth SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS P BY LOCATION Jordan River / Irbid $85M P West Bank Sheikh Hussein Total Jenin Requirements P $348M R Ajloun Tulkarm P Tubas E P P V I $264M R Gaza Nablus N P A Qalqiliya D P R O J a Salfit e Tel Aviv-Yaffo P Balqa P P S n West Bank West Bank Amman a e 0.25M Allenby / n RamallahP People King Hussein a targeted Jericho r P r Jerusalem e Ashdod P t P i d Madaba P e P M Bethlehem a e S Hebron d North Gaza P a e GazaGaza Strip D Middle1.3 AreaM GazaPeople targeted KhanStrip Yunis Jordan RafahRafah Be'er Sheva P Karak P Israel Al ‘Ojah / Nitzana The designations employed and the presentation of material in the report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 07 Egypt Wadi