To emergency response allocation strategy in the northwest of Syria, Shafak organization accelerated the response new influx of internally displaced people in Idlib governorate through the Protection Response Project and the provision of integrated emergency services with the aim of providing prevention and response services around protection risks.
The project aims to ensure the continued provision of protection services in the highly affected areas in the northwest.
The project contributed to strengthening the prevention and mitigation of protection risks, and responding to protection needs by providing integrated protection services in emergency situations, including gender-based violence, child protection, and awareness of remnants of war.
The project was implemented through mobile protection teams in the Idlib region during the life of the project as a rapid response to displacement movements and protection issues resulting from displacement and the current situation. In addition, Shafak organization worked to coordinate with protection organizations (NGOs and INGOs) at the Idlib level to coordinate the emergency response.
Shafak organization held and hosted six meetings, the number of organizations participating in the coordination meetings reached 11 organizations. These meetings proved fruitful, as their results were achieved on the ground through the implementation of several joint activities between some organizations in Idlib to provide an integrated response.
The project contributed to:
- Providing integrated protection services for emergencies (providing specialized child protection services and gender-based violence services, in addition to conducting risk education for groups at risk) through mobile teams.
- Continuing to provide emergency protection services through 5 mobile teams for integrated protection in emergencies
- Dissemination of key messages, including gender-based violence and child protection, awareness of risks, and provision of non-specialized protection services.
- Refer men, women, boys and girls to non-specialized services.
- Provide direct support for high priority cases.
- Support coordination at the field level through regular meetings organized by the field liaison officer.
- Carry out a rapid protection monitoring assessment and a child protection monitoring assessment in coordination with the Protection Monitoring Working Group and the Child Protection Monitoring Group.
- Strengthening the capacity of human resources to respond in the targeted locations and expanding the existing protection centers that provide emergency protection services to meet the needs of the growing population
- Training of protection cadres on protection, child protection (minimum standards for child protection and child protection during crises), gender-based violence, awareness of the dangers of war in emergencies.
- Training of persons not working in the protection sector on basic protection principles, including case definition and referral for protection services in gender-based violence, child protection and awareness of remnants of war.
- Increasing the capacity of the fixed centers that were expanded by employing 8 workers to receive more beneficiaries.
- Providing regular psychosocial support services in fixed centers.
- Distribution of psychosocial support materials.