Source: UN Population Fund
Country: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey
HIGHLIGHT
- SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC: UNFPA delivers 330,000 services to 103,000 Syrians affected by the conflict; these include safe delivery services for 21,500 women, reproductive health and gender-based violence related awareness services to 25,000 people, and provision of support to 3,924 gender-based violence survivors residing in the affected governorates. UNFPA, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, conducts a series of capacity building events on the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) as well as basic and advanced life support in obstetrics. These events target 87 health professionals, who will be able to provide better quality reproductive health services to around 20,000 persons per month nationwide.
- LEBANON: UNFPA, through its partners, organizes awareness sessions on reproductive health, targeting 5,681 women mainly in Akkar, Baalbek, Tripoli, and Zahle. UNFPA supports 307 women survivors of gender-based violence, distributes 2,946 dignity kits, and starts a socio-economic project titled ‘Sarah’s Bag’ to support Syrian women in Baalbak. Forty boys participate in UNFPA-supported gender-based violence prevention activities in Mount Lebanon and Beirut. UNFPA finalizes a peer-to-peer education-training curriculum.
- JORDAN: UNFPA provides reproductive health services to 12,153 women in UNFPA-supported facilities in camps and host community, supports 147 deliveries, and reaches 3,500 women and families with reproductive health messages. UNFPA supports 1,270 gender-based violence survivors and provides gender-based violence services to 9,386 women, girls, men, and boys.
- IRAQ: UNFPA provides reproductive health services to 2,716 women of reproductive age at UNFPA-supported health centres, supports 458 deliveries, and 114 Caesarean sections. As many as 128 women receive gender-based violence related services; 2,809 women and girls benefit from awareness raising and outreach activities on gender-based violence issues; and 856 youth participate in different UNFPA-supported activities.
- TURKEY: UNFPA provides reproductive and family planning services to 2,212 Syrians in counseling units, and reaches 2,212 people with reproductive health related messages through 46 sessions on the topic. UNFPA provides gender-based violence related services to 563 Syrian women, holds awareness sessions for 649 individuals, conducts outreach activities for 563 beneficiaries, and builds the capacity of 312 young persons on youth sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings.
- EGYPT: UNFPA organizes 19 awareness sessions on sexual and reproductive health for 117 women and 218 girls as well as gender-based violence awareness sessions targeting 335 women and girls in Damietta safe space.