Highlights
UNICEF sector leads in WASH, Education, Nutrition and Child Protection Working Group provided leadership in developing the 2015 Strategic Response Plan (SRP) for Syria which will officially be launched in December 2014. The humanitarian response articulated in SRP is within the framework of the Whole of Syria approach, which is bringing together humanitarian actors working from inside Syria or neighbouring countries for the first time, aimed at increasing the overall effectiveness of the response.
During the 2014/15 winter season, across Syria, UNICEF aims to reach 400,000 children with winter clothes around the country including in underserved priority locations such as Aleppo, Dier Ezzour, Raqqa, Hassakeh, Rural Damascus and Idleb. UNICEF has so far managed to secure winter clothes for 312, 000 children and 115, 000 blankets. The distribution process is currently underway and over 24,249 children have already received their winter clothes and 10,000 blankets.
UNICEF Lebanon is seeking to reach over 365,000 children this winter through vouchers, in-kind distribution, fuel for heating, and flood mitigation measures.
In Jordan, UNICEF is providing winter clothing support for over 102,000 children ages 0-16 years old via cash support. In host communities, families of 37,847 children ages 0-12 (among 21,000 extremely vulnerable families) have received unconditional cash assistance worth USD 25 per child. In addition to cash support, in-kind clothing kits for over 17,800 children are being distributed at border crossings and in host communities.
In Syria, quantitative analysis of the Education Sector Needs shows between 2.1 and 2.4 million children in Syria are now either out of school or attending classes irregularly. Some children have been out of school for two to three years. In order to prevent a lost generation and address the hidden impact of the crisis through practical investments, UNICEF in close collaboration with UNRWA and the Ministry of Education has developed a self-learning programme, for a phased roll out in the first quarter of 2015. The programme will provide access to learning to 1.6 million out of school children.