Libya - Emergency Assistance - ACTED 2018

May 2018 – Since 2014 civilians have been suffering as a result of conflict political instability and a collapsing economy in Libya. Conflict-affected people are often living in unsafe conditions and high-risk hostile environments with little or no access to life-saving health care essential medicines food safe drinking water shelter and education. There are over 1.1 million people in Libya in need of humanitarian assistance including 170 000 internally displaced people 200 000 returnees and 376 000 vulnerable Libyans. In addition there are an estimated 64 000 refugees and 337 000 migrants in Libya facing significant protection concerns with their status making them particularly vulnerable to abuse marginalization and exploitation. Given the current environment Libya has become a regional nexus point for human smuggling operations and irregular migration to Europe – in 2017 over 2 800 people lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. With GAC’s support the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) is providing emergency cash assistance for up to 4 000 of the most vulnerable conflict-affected people particularly female headed households in the Tripoli and surrounding areas of Libya.

The expected outcome for this project is an increased use of gender-responsive assistance (food assistance material and services required to meet basic human needs) by women men boys and girls affected by crises including populations who have been forcibly displaced. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crisis or that are facing acute food insecurity.