Syria Crisis - Protection and Emergency Relief in Egypt and Iraq - UNHCR 2014

February 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates that more than 130 000 people have been killed with hundreds of thousands more wounded due to the violence. Within Syria some 9.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance 6.5 million of whom are internally displaced. In addition over 2.4 million Syrian refugees are registered and living in host countries in the region. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of the conflict and host countries are increasingly overstretched by the influx of affected people needing assistance. With the support of DFATD and other donors the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is assisting 250 000 Syrian refugees in Egypt and 400 000 Syrian refugees in Iraq. Activities include: (1) providing access to asylum; (2) registering refugees to ensure their safety and protection; (3) providing refugees with core relief items; (4) providing refugee households with the items they need to survive changing seasons (cold in winter drought in summer); (5) providing temporary emergency shelters to all newly-arrived refugees and ensuring Syrians already in camps have appropriate shelters.

The expected immediate outcomes of this project include: (1) increased access to protection services; (2) increased access to relief items; and (3) increased access to emergency shelter assistance for up to 650 000 conflict-assisted people. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.