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As populations continue to be uprooted from their homes, the need to provide them with safe and decent accommodation in a dignified manner remains a major undertaking. In 2018, more than 4.3 million people were estimated to be in need of shelter support. Shelter Sector partners have continued to collec-tively provide need-based shelter assistance ranging from the provision of emergency shelter to durable shelter supports. Emergency shelter supports as part of the sector life-saving shelter assistance, consist of shelter kit distribution, rehabilitation/upgrading of emergency shelter spaces in public collective shelters and unfinished buildings and shelter and infrastruc-ture supports in camps and spontaneous settle-ments. Shelter Kits Distribution: The largest number of beneficiaries in 2018 were reached through shelter kits distribution and installation. A total of 91,127 individuals have benefitted from shelter kits distribution and installation that also includes winter shelter support (i.e. provision of expansion foam and extra heavy-duty plastic sheets).

Emergency shelter kits commonly consist of light closure materials that are designed to provide temporary and immediate shelter solutions. Emergency Settlement Support: 41,592 displaced individuals were provided with shelter and infrastructure supports in camps and sponta-neous settlements. Other settlement support includes construction of the communal kitchen, fencing, and installation of camp lighting. Public Shelter Repair / Rehabilitation: The sector continues to support the rehabilitation of public buildings that are used as short to mid-term shelters to ensure a protective environment for the displaced population. In 2018, 40,467 displaced persons benefitted from this shelter solution. Private Shelter Upgrade: In 2018, 9,216 individuals benefitted from private shelter up-grade. In 2018, the shelter sector partners responded to several localized emergency situations such as East Ghouta, Afrin, Dara’a and other areas in South-West Syria and North-East Syria.

Emergency Shelter Support

2018 YEAR END REPORT

UNHCR/PUI supported the women headed household with rehabilitation of damaged houses in Jabal Al Nobah village, Rural Lattakia who returned to home after three years of displacement.”

The sector in close coordination with local authorities and other sectors continues to provide shelter solutions that contribute towards the resilience of communities. Among its resilience-based shelter efforts include sustainable repair/rehabilitation of housing and related community/public infrastructure and facilities, capacity building of local stakeholders and advocacy to address housing, land and property issues.

Rehabilitation of Partially Damaged Houses: Sector partners continue to support to owners and tenants to rehabilitate their partially damaged houses in their places of origin to ensure ade-quate living conditions. There was an increased focus on this activity in 2018 by the shelter sector partners. A total of 41,998 individuals have bene-fitted in 2018 compared to 24,000 individuals in 2017. Most of the beneficiaries are located in Hama governorate where return movement has taken place considerably.

Rehabilitation of Community/ Public Infra-structures: To complement the durable shelter supports, partners continued to provide assistance to rehabilitate basic community/public

infrastructure to ensure access to essential infra-structure services. In close coordination with other sectors, partners were able to reach a total of 293,850 individuals in 2018.

HLP issues are always considered before imple-menting any shelter activities. Before granting approval for shelter interventions, the local authorities ensure that the security of tenure documents are in place.

Capacity Building Support: To empower local stakeholders and ensure sustainability of shelter interventions, capacity building efforts continued. In 2018, approximately 279 technical / engineer-ing staffs from 11 governorates received training on management of shelter rehabilitation projects and working with humanitarian agencies on the various shelter responses. The training was a joint effort of the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment (MoLAE) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Another 56 participants who are mostly reporting or IM focal points were trained on Humanitarian Information Management training in Damascus City.

The Shelter Sector Year-End Report is an annual publication of the Shelter Sector of Syria Hub which is co-led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Ministry of

Local Administration and Environment of Syria. This publication aims to provide an overview of the humanitarian response of the sector inside Syria each year. All information presented in

this publication are from all shelter sector members with operational presence inside Syria. For more information, please contact the sector.

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Sustainable Shelter Support

In 2018, the Shelter Sector partners implemented a total of 189 shelter projects that benefitted over 500,000 individuals. The shelter interventions targeted displaced

populations with emergency shelter inter-ventions whereas returnees and stayees were targeted with durable shelter interven-tions.

OVERALL FIGURES

NUMBER OF PEOPLE COVERED WITH

VARIOUS SHELTER SUPPORTS

518,529 Total no. of people covered with emergency and

durable shelter support in Syria as of December 2018

TARGET

REACH

SEASONAL SHELTER PROVISION

EMERGENCY SHELTER PROVISION

TARGET

REACH

EMERGENCY SHELTER REHABILITATION

DURABLE SHELTER SUPPORT

TARGET

REACH

3,750

17,975

REACH

TARGET

REACH

TARGET

518,529

864,296

309,000

114,744

128,100

49,683

423,446

335,848

CRISIS BACKGROUND: The crisis in Syrian Arab Republic that started in March 2011 has transformed into a complex emergency that has

displaced around 6.2 million people in various parts of the country. As per the 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, around 13 million people

are in need of humanitarian assistance of which around 4.3 million people are in need of shelter support and other multi-sectorial assistance

as they continue to struggle in an unsafe and uncertain environment. Due to the protracted nature of the hostilities, many of both displaced

and host communities become more vulnerable and their ability to cope and find safe and durable shelter solutions have been greatly affect-

ed. The humanitarian community has been challenged to both provide emergency and life-saving shelter solutions while building back com-

munity cohesion and resilience through provision of adequate shelter assistance.

Shelter Sector Coordination Team

Pankaj Kumar Singh, Sector coordinator (singhpa@unhcr.org)

Bareaa Alkafre, Associate Shelter Officer (alkafre@unhcr.org)

2018 YEAR END REPORT

Challenges and Gaps

Shelter Sector Information Management Team

Muhammad Shahzad, IM Officer (shahzadm@unhcr.org)

Maha Shaban, IM Associate (shabanm@unhcr.org)

While efforts were made to address the

pressing shelter needs of the most vulnera-

ble population, there are still challenges

and gaps that remain to be addressed.

Access and safety are the key challenges in

many parts of the country as well as partner

capacity and heavy processes along with

funding constraints;

Increasing needs, diminishing coping

capacities of both the IDPs and host com-

munities, and limited financial resources of

the government to provide shelter compen-

sation require sector partners to scale up

operational presence;

Shelter and infrastructure needs are huge

and the Shelter Sector partners collectively

do not have the capacity to meet all the

needs;

Issue related to the loss of occupancy

documents deprived some population of

accessing shelter supports;

Opportunities for systematic field-based

data collection remain very limited due to

access or authorization restrictions,

resulting in incomplete needs analysis in

some areas.

Shelter Sector I Syria Hub I syrdashltr@unhcr.org I https://www.sheltercluster.org/response/syria-hub

Shelter Response Map

LEGEND

Estimate no. of peoplereached (no. of sub-district)

0 - 2,000 (20)

2,001 - 7,000 (12)

7,001 - 11,500 (3)

11,501 - 31,000 (6)

31,001 - 100,000 (2)

Severity score (no. of sub-district)

0 - No Problem (3)

1 - Minor Problem (59)

2 - Moderate Problem (71)

3 - Major Problem (93)

4 - Severe Problem (38)

5 - Critical Problem (2)

Sector Coordination

The sector continues to serve as a platform

for humanitarian actors who are providing

shelter assistance to engage and collective-

ly address the pressing shelter needs of the

population. Through the existing coordina-

tion mechanism, the sector ensures at all

times an efficient and effective coordination

mechanism at all levels. Within the sector,

strategic and action-oriented meetings have

continued to be held on regular basis at

Damascus but also in some field locations.

In 2018, the Technical Working Group

(TWG) further worked on the strategy and

guidelines revision and the revised docu-

ments were shared with MoLAE for final

review and comments. The strategy

and the guidelines provide a framework for

partners to assess, plan, implement, moni-

tor and hand over shelter projects.

Inter-sector and inter-agency coordination

also continue to play a significant role in

advancing the agenda of the sector. In

terms of field coordination, the sector con-

tinues to benefit from the establishment of

the Sub-National Working Groups in six (6)

governorates. In 2018, a total of 21 partners

contributed to the overall response of the

sector.

±

ACF

AOUN

NRC

SIF

ADRA

CCC

OXFAM

Al-Birr

DRC

PUI

GOPA

RSRP

IOM

RESCATE

MEDAIR MSJM

UNRWA

AL Ihsan

SCCSARC

UN-HabitatSTDSSSD

Al Taalouf

115 5 196

PLANNED ONGOING COMPLETED

PROVISION OF

ASSISTANCE

DISTRIBUTION /

OF SHELTER

KITS

REHABILIATION

SHELTER

UPGRADING

BUILDINGS

REHABILITATION

HOUSES

DISTRIBUTION/

OF TENTS

CAPACITY

DEVELOPMENT

INSTALLATION OFCOMMUNITY/PUBLICINFRASTRUCTURE

SEASONALINSTALLATION OF COLLECTIVEOF PRIVATEUNFINISHEDOF DAMAGED INSTALLATION

AND SKILLSBUILDING

REHABILITATION/

SHELTER

INFRASTRUCTURECONSTRUCTION/REPAIR IN TRANSITCAPMS/SPONTANEOUSSETTLEMENTS

Dhameer

Raheiba

Kisweh

Qatana

Jirud

Sa'sa'

Duma

At Tall

Ghizlaniyyeh

Ghabagheb Masmiyyeh

Ma'loula

Khan Arnaba

Rankus

Dimas

Little Sura

Nashabiyeh

Al Qutayfah

Bait Jan

Sidnaya

Quneitra

Az-Zabdani

Sarghaya

Masaada

Madaya

Maliha

Damascus

Ein Elfijeh

Babella

Qudsiya

Sahnaya Haran Al'awameed

Harasta

Markaz Darayya

Kafr BatnaArbin

Jaramana

Hajar Aswad

THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

HOMS

ALEPPO

DEIR-EZ-ZOR

AL-HASAKEH

HAMA

AR-RAQQA

RURAL DAMASCUS

IDLEB

DAR'AAS-SWEIDA

LATTAKIA

TARTOUS

QUNEITRA

DAMASCUS

Number of beneficiaries

LEGEND2018 Shelter People In Need (PiN) per sub_district

103,301 - 365,000

43,501 - 103,300

20,001 - 43,500

6,751 - 20,000

0 - 6,750 0 - 2,000

2,001 - 7,000

7,001 - 11,500

11,501 - 31,000

31,001 - 100,000

MEDAIR

MoLAE PUI SIF SSSD

STD

ADRA DRC

RURAL DAMASCUSSHELTER PARTNERS

UNRWAMoLAE

DAMASCUSSHELTER PARTNER

PUIMoLAE UNHCR

TARTOUSSHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

MOLAE UNHCR

QUNEITRASHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

DRC GOPA SIF

UNHCRPUIMEDAIR

DAR’ASHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNE

GOPA MoLAE UNHCR

AS-SWEIDASHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

PUI UNHCRMoLAE MSJMGOPA

LATTAKIASHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

ALEPPOSHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

PUI RESCATE

OXFAM

UN-Habitat UNHCR

MEDAIR

DRC GOPA

MoLAE

ADRA

SIF

STD

UNHCRSTD

AR-RAQQASHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

UNHCRMoLAEADRA

AL-HASAKEHSHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

DRCSIF

SCCMoLAESSSD UNHCR

HAMASHELTER PARTNERS

HOMSSHELTER PARTNERSSHELTER PARTNERS

ADRA AOUN

MoLAE

SSSD

CCC

PUI

UN-Habitat

Al-Birr

GOPADRC

SIF

UNHCR

UNRWAUNHCR

UNHCRSTD MEDAIRPUI

DEIR-EZ-ZORSHELTER PARTNERSHELTER PARTNERS

Disclaimer: The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Humanitarian reach to sub-district does not imply full geographic coverage of all the needs in the sub-district. Information visualized on this map is not to be considered complete. Creation Date: 22 January 2019Data Sources: Shelter 4W Matrix, January - December 2018 and Shelter HNO 2018 Feedback:syrdashltr@unhcr.org

SYRIA: SHELTER SECTOR RESPONSE SNAPSHOTReporting Period: January - December 2018

TURKEY

IRAQ

JORDAN

LEBANON

TOTAL BENEFICIARIES COVERED

BENEFICIARIES COVERED PER GOVERNORATE

BENEFICIARIES COVERED BY TYPE OF SUPPORT

SHELTER SECTOR PARTNERS

NO. OF SHELTER PROJECTS PER STAGE

4.3 M OVERALL PEOPLE IN NEED (PIN)1.4 M TARGETED PIN / HRP 2018

60% OF 864,296 TARGETED PIN BY SYRIA HUB

518,529

TOTAL NUMBER OF PLANNED / IMPLEMENTED SHELTER PROJECTS316

CO-LEAD AGENCIES

135,450

122,129 113,560

45,025

29,446 26,606 23,731

7,236 5,304 4,375 2,412 1,918 1,337

DAR'A ALEPPO RURAL DAMASCUS

HAMA QUNEITRA AL-HASAKEH

HOMS AR-RAQQA DEIR-EZ-ZOR

DAMASCUS AS-SWEIDA LATTAKIA TARTOUS

293,850

73,152 41,998 40,892 40,467

17,975 9,216 700 279