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El Salvador: Monitoring the Humanitarian Response - Bulletin n° 1 | January - April 2023

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Key Figures Humanitarian activities

63 families
affected by the earthquake swarms in Ahuachapán and San Lorenzo received multipurpose vouchers and cash transfers.
Among the families are 142 women and 119 men, with mostly women heads of household and out-of-school children and adolescents.

15,115 children
from 102 schools in these municipalities (51 border schools) received school packages so that migrant children and adolescents in transit could access quality educational services and recovery of basic learning.

Humanitarian Response Plan Activities

The Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) ) Sector has not yet obtained funding for the 2023 HRP. However, IOM continues to carry out activities for the project: “Addressing converging crises and the unprecedented increase in the needs of internally displaced persons, returnees and their families in northern Central America”, with funds from the Republic of Korea, within the framework of El Salvador’s 2022 HRP.

A participatory assessment was completed with the communities in San Francisco Menéndez, Mejicanos, Perquín and Pasaquina who will use the shelters where interventions have been carried out. Through this, the sector identified the need to train community leaders and municipal shelter management teams in psychological and physical first aid, prevention of gender-based violence, new masculinities and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). This training will be carried out in conjunction with partners of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), such as UNICEF and the Salvadoran Red Cross.

From 20 to 24 March, 24 people (8 men and 16 women) from the technical teams of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras’ National Civil Protection systems were certified as facilitators in coordination and management of temporary shelters. Their responsibility will be to train other humanitarian partners in the CCCM sector in each of their respective countries on these topics

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