2014 Syrian Arab Republic Humanitarian Assistance Response Plan (SHARP)

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE RESPONSE PLAN 2014
strategies and plans. Particular capacity development activities will be implemented to increase the awareness on
the resilience based approach and early recovery mainstreaming, and strengthen the planning and implementation
capacities of all involved stakeholders for coherent and effective ER&L results. Advocacy for resilience based
planning and early recovery mainstreaming will rely on evidence based and informed assessments conducted by
various UN agencies and partners in the ER&L sector. As such, macro and micro level assessments will be
conducted to identify the socio-economic impacts of the crisis on productive and social sectors in Syria. An areabased
livelihoods and damage assessment will better inform local emergency and early recovery response plans
engaging a larger number of stakeholders in the process. UNDP and UN-Habitat are promoting for neighbourhood/
areas-based planning focusing on developing a comprehensive action plan to address inter-sectoral needs and
priorities. UN-Habitat will utilize its on-going urban assessments at neighbourhood level in Aleppo, Homs, Latakia,
Hama, Dara'a to support urban neighbourhood based programming through neighbourhood structures to deliver
on urban impact projects in most vulnerable cities affected by crisis. According to UN-Habitat Rapid City profile
findings in September 2013, the limited urban functionality in neighbourhoods is preventing habitation and return,
and is adding additional pressures on public buildings for shelter and WASH, as IDPs are moving out of areas of
origin to new neighbourhoods. Ensuring active participation of municipalities and local actors in sustaining local
service delivery will foster stabilization and recovery in target areas and prevent additional cycles of displacement.
Assessments and plans should be presented to all actors facilitating the planning processes to ensuring coherent
and adequate responses by different sectors. UNDP will capture results of various assessments and plans in a
comprehensive database relying on GIS and interactive mapping and reports. This mechanism will serve as a
planning and monitoring tool for the UN to better assess gaps and needs, and plan for the most adequate response
for early recovery and livelihoods within the current humanitarian context. It will also allow taking into account, as
early as possible, basic requirements and assets that need to be maintained in order not to compromise resilience
and future development perspectives.
Finally, a large component of capacity development of local partners including NGOs, CBOs, municipalities, private
sector and other local actors will be devised in order to accelerate the delivery of results in the field of early
recovery and livelihoods. The main purpose is to re-orient their local initiatives towards livelihoods and early
recovery type of activities. The majority of the local and national NGOs lack the capacity to implement “serviceoriented”
projects as opposed to the distribution of humanitarian assistance. Relevant initiatives will be based on
capacity and needs assessments and will focus on various technical dimensions relating to the sector, including
development of urban response plans, livelihoods and early recovery activities among others. Ultimately, the
assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring mechanisms will be improved for better accountability and
transparency.
It is worth noting that the activities listed below will respond to the most pressing and urgent livelihood needs of the
affected population and as such represent the priorities of the ER&L sector. The sector members are adopting the
following criteria for their programmatic targeting:
Criteria 1:
Criteria 2:
Criteria 3:
Criteria 4:
Impact of the crisis (high number of IDPs, deteriorated basic social services, and high poverty and
unemployment, etc.)
Areas with potential for labour absorption (labour intensive interventions, cash for work) and
production/revival of markets (grants, assets replacement)
Presence of NGOs and implementing partners
Areas which are relatively stable and accessible and/or areas with critical needs for beyond lifesaving
support‟
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