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This analysis provides a snapshot of the protection sector response as a whole, as of 31 October 2017, including information on geographical coverage and progress against 2017 HRP targets, based on 4W reporting. As of 31 October 2017, the Whole of Syria protection sector, including Child Protection, GBV and Mine Action, has provided 5,708,100 protection interventions across Syria (59% of the 2017 HRP target), 775, 900 of which were reported in October 2017. 37% of these interventions (2,083,600) are people reached through explosive hazards risk education.
Protection partners have reached 19 out the 30 UN-declared besieged communities and 56 out of the 103 military-encircled areas in 2017*. The ability of protection partners to regularly access those areas and conduct sustained protection activities remains constrained and unpredictable, with 13 besieged communities reached in October 2017 against 17 reached in July 2017. 58% of the total interventions were in 43 sub-districts categorized as severity 5 or 6 in the updated Protection sector severity scale (as of September 2017). 69% of the total response is delivered in four Governorates – Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Rural Damascus. Gaps in the protection response remain apparent in some locations, in particular Ar-Raqqa (0.32% interventions conducted in this governorate) and Deir-ez-Zor (0.03% of interventions conducted in this governorate). While active hostilities have come to an end in Ar-Raqqa governorate, widespread contamination of explosive hazards and currently limited survey and clearance capacities of mine action humanitarian agencies continue to hamper the response, particularly in urban and semi-urban areas. However, 100% of the response currently delivered in Ar-Raqqa governorate targets hard-to-reach areas, where 68% of the people in need in the governorate are present. A total of 225 communities have been reached through the cross-border actors, with protection monitoring (87% of the 2017 HRP target). The first quarterly report of the Protection Monitoring Task Force (March-June 2017) was shared and contains a series of recommendation for humanitarian actors (available upon request to the Protection sector), demonstrating that protection monitoring is fundamentally linked to programming, by informing all actors of vulnerabilities, risks, protection concerns and other essential information to inform programming of other sectors.