2014 Syrian Arab Republic Humanitarian Assistance Response Plan (SHARP)

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE RESPONSE PLAN 2014
address immediate needs. Also ensuring the monitoring of changing needs, prioritization of appropriate
assistance and a targeted response for persons with specific vulnerabilities.
Strengthen the provision of health services through targeted interventions such as trauma management, supply
of life-saving medicines and medical supplies, reinforced outbreak prevention, surveillance and response and
capacity building of health workers, safe access to potable water and sanitation services.
Winterisation support such as warm clothing, high thermal blankets, additional plastic sheets, solar lamps and
other essential relief items and provision of CRIs to include mattresses, blankets, plastic sheets, diapers for
children/elderly/disabled, sanitary napkins, hygiene kits, kitchen sets, and jerry cans.
3. Expansion of early recovery efforts and the restoration of livelihoods
Key actions:
Enhancing the resilience of local communities and the affected population through the creation of emergency
employment opportunities and the use of community grants to rehabilitate basic and social infrastructure.
Strengthening coping mechanisms of the affected population through the restoration of disrupted livelihoods.
Enhancing the resilience of vulnerable groups (child-headed families, youth, female-headed households,
elderly, Palestine refugees and persons with disability) through targeted rehabilitation and livelihood support as
well as community-based initiatives.
4. Enhancing the operational capacity and coordination of national and international humanitarian
responders to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected populations:
Key actions:
The establishment of humanitarian hubs and sub-offices for INGOs.
Increased access to hard-to reach areas, areas not reached with humanitarian assistance for a variety of
reasons and areas with presence of armed groups.
Ensuring timely facilitation for the delivery of humanitarian assistance: The UN will advocate for: the continued
delivery of relief supplies, including medical supplies and trauma/surgical kits into hard-to-reach areas; and
simplification in procedures by which to receive government clearances for humanitarian trucks and convoys.
The UN will also advocate for the smooth facilitation of UN and partner field missions.
Improving needs assessment and analysis: The UN will continue to advocate for effective and timely collection
of needs data to provide a better understanding of the evolving humanitarian situation to support the response
inside Syria. Information collection and analysis will be strengthened at the governorate and city level through
among others, inter-agency joint comprehensive assessments, sector specific assessments and multi-sector
city and neighbourhood profiles to ensure credible baseline information, to support monitoring and flexibility in
programme implementation and to ensure timely delivery to affected populations.
Pooled Funding: Pooled Funds mechanisms, such as the CERF and the ERF, will continue to play an
instrumental role in providing support to emergency response, gaps and coverage of needs, including critical
data collection and analysis particularly in hard-to reach areas.
5. Strengthening preparedness and response by humanitarian actors to address a further deterioration of
the humanitarian situation
Key actions:
Periodic review of program criticality of staff to enable life-saving assistance to continue within a challenging
environment.
Strengthening of agency specific remote management mechanisms and capacity building of national staff.
Preparedness and response to possible outbreaks of communicable diseases.
Working with communities to put in place a community psychosocial support framework.
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