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Turkey Basic Needs Sector, January - June 2017

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SECTOR ACHIEVEMENTS & CHANGES

In the first half of 2017, humanitarian actors have reached 1,770,035 refugees* in Turkey with services and assistance enabling them to meet their basic needs. Out of those, 767,043 refugees have received monthly cash-based assistance and 294,491 were supported with Core Relief Items. During the first quarter of 2017, multiple types of cash programmes were being implemented by basic needs actors. These were mainly aimed at meeting the difficulties that families faced during the winter months when prices increased and seasonable labour was difficult to access. When winter was over, and the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme, was well under way these actors phased out their cash programmes. Notably, by the end of June 2017, the ESSN** was reaching over 685,000 refugees each month with unrestricted cash assistance. In total, the ESSN aims to reach some 1.3 million refugees in Turkey.

Relevant sectors, including the Basic Needs Working Group, the Cash-Based Interventions Technical Working Group, and the Protection Working Group, have also been collaborating to profile vulnerable refugee households in Turkey which require support to meet their basic needs, comparing these profiles to the targeting criteria of existing programmes to identify prospective gaps. Partners have also been exploring ways to leverage Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) to support the most vulnerable households to access basic needs assistance.

To highlight shelter needs and support partners to develop strengthened programmatic approaches to improve shelter conditions, IOM and UNHCR, in close collaboration with the broader basic needs working group, commenced a shelter/WASH assessment in five provinces in south-eastern Turkey, expected to be finalized in August. Additionally, drawing upon harmonized indicators, the BNWG prepared a Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) report for the winter response 2016/2017 which will feed into the planning process of the winter assistance 2017/2018 that will start in July.

Municipalities are often burdened by the fact that an increase in population stretches their ability to deliver basic services. Partners have Humanitarian actors in Turkey have increasingly focused their efforts on supporting Municipalities in strengthening their service delivery. For example, since the beginning of 2017, in Gaziantep, a waste station was provided that will efficiently transport 164 tons/day of solid waste from Islahiye and Nurdağı districts. In Sanliurfa, a new waste station and three semi-trailer were provided which are projected to save the Ceylanpinar municipality more than 477,000 EUR annually.

*Refugees may receive more than one service and the total figure does not account for overlap.
**The EU-funded ESSN programme, launched nation-wide on 28 November 2016, is implemented by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy (MoFSP) and the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC), with WFP oversight, monitoring, and accountability.