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Situation Overview
To date, 70,630 people, including 17,657 women of reproductive age (WRA), remain displaced from North-East Syria (NES), to Al-Hassakeh, Ar-Raqqa and Aleppo governorates. Displaced people have, in the majority, found shelter in local communities but also in informal settlements and collective shelters. The local community reported that new IDP families from Idleb have been displaced to Ar-Raqqa city, through Dadat crossing point, and have been accommodated in public buildings or hosted by the local community. Since the recent development in Idleb, some 184 families have fled to Ar-Raqqa. In recent weeks, three new informal IDP settlements have been established: Tweineh (hosting an estimated 4,120 people), Tal-Samen (estimated 20 people) and Daham (estimated 1,800 people). There are 77 shelters in Al-Hassakeh Governorate. An estimated 130,101 displaced people are reported to have returned to their places of origin. Of these, 118,936 have returned to Al-Hassakeh and Ar-Raqqa. In Aleppo 10,105 have returned, mainly to Menbij.
Immediate Response
Gender Based Violence (GBV)
During the period of 01-29th February 2020:
● UNFPA continued providing a range of GBV services including: GBV Case Management, Psycho-social Support (PSS), GBV awareness raising, vocational training, recreational activities, referral to more specialized services such as mental health, and more physically severe cases. GBV services are integrated with reproductive health (RH) services through mobile (MTs) teams and RH clinics and through integrated RH/GBV mobile teams are provided to the newly displaced people including referral to existing services in the camps and shelters.
● UNFPA has continued the provision of comprehensive GBV services through 5 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS): 1 in Areesha Camp, 1 in Al-Hassakeh City, 1 in Qamishli and 1 in Ar-Raqqa and 1 in Tabqa city. Furthermore, UNFPA operates 9 mobile teams: 4 RH/GBV integrated mobile teams covering Raqqa city and Tabqqa , 3 GBV mobile teams cover Al-Hassakeh City including the IDPs collective shelters and 2 cover Qamishli city.
● Aiming to help more women visit UNFPA Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) and benefit from the provided services, UNFPA in collaboration with UNICEF established an integrated service to be provided for children who accompany their mothers inside the WGSS. A mobile Team was allocated to provide child protection services to those children.
● Based on the coordination with the Directorate of Social Affairs and Labor (DoSAL) of Al-Hassakeh, UNFPA invited the local NGOs for an orientation session on proposal writing to increase their capacity to apply for 2020 projects. A GBV mainstreaming discussion session was conducted in Qamishli targeting representatives from sectors (WASH, NFI, Protection and Child Protection). Consequently, an action plan was developed for GBV mainstreaming.
● UNFPA continues to apply the approach of assigning volunteers from local communities, aiming to enhance the community's involvement and to ensure reach of the beneficiaries in need for UNFPA services. Furthermore, this approach economically empowers the volunteers, who are both adult and young women of working age.
● 22 trucks containing 141,470 sanitary napkin packs; 20,493 winterized protection dignity kits; 5,594 female dignity kits; 7,446 male dignity kits; 903 pregnant and lactating women kits; 454 adolescent dignity kits; 10,782 blankets; 10,782 scarfs; 2,000 flash lights and 15 wheelchairs were dispatched. Distribution is currently ongoing.
● GBV services were provided to 4,455 beneficiaries.
● In Areesha Camp, UNFPA reached 282 beneficiaries.
● In Raqqa WGSS, UNFPA reached 1,689 beneficiaries.
● In several shelters in Rural Al-Hassakeh, UNFPA reached 2,484 beneficiaries.
Reproductive Health (RH)
During the period of 1st - 29th February 2020:
● UNFPA has continued the provision of ante-natal care (ANC), post-natal care (PNC), family planning (FP), treatment of reproductive tract infections (RTIs) and urinary tract infections(UTIs), pediatric, primary health care (PHC) and referral services, in addition to deliveries.
● RH services were provided to: 11,867 individuals in 52 shelters (45 shelters in Al-Hassakeh City and 7 shelters in (Rural Al-Hassakeh, Tal Tamer), in addition to 49 villages in the rural areas of Al-Hassakeh (14 in Rural TalTamer and 35 in Abdul Aziz Mountain), Ar-Raqqa City (Tabqa and Jurinia).
● 11,815 WRA (3,546 out of them pregnant) were reached with RH services.
● UNFPA distributed 37 Clean Delivery Kits (17 2A kits which will serve 3400 pregnant women and 20 2B kits for 100 midwives and birth attendances) in rural Al-Hassakeh and Qamishli.
● From the 9th of October 2019 until the 29th of February 2020, UNFPA supported 48 deliveries: 33 normal deliveries and 15 C-Sections.
● RH static clinics: 11.
● Mobile Teams: 13.
● In Areesha Camp, UNFPA reached 1120 WRA, out of which 356 are pregnant.
● In Mahmoudi Camp, UNFPA reached 323 WRA, out of which 256 are pregnant.
● In Twehina camp, UNFPA reached 396 WRA, out of which 153 are pregnant.