HIGHLIGHTS
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC: UNFPA delivers 298,272 services to Syrians affected by the conflict; these include safe delivery services for 5,674 women, reproductive health and gender-based violence related awareness services for 16,000 people, outreach services for 20,000 beneficiaries, and provision of 9,000 contraceptive and family planning counselings. UNFPA also distributes 27,824 packs of sanitary napkins, 8,380 female dignity kits, 4,122 male dignity kits, and carries out 6,420 gender-based violence awareness raising sessions.
LEBANON: UNFPA organizes reproductive health awareness sessions targeting 4,625 women, provides gender-based violence related services to 255 survivors, and distributes 4,410 dignity kits. Lebanon becomes the first country to pilot a capacity-building plan on Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS) through a pool of trainers; this places Lebanon and UNFPA in the forefront of the global GBVIMS rollout.
JORDAN: UNFPA provides 13,306 reproductive health services, and reaches out to 1,364 gender-based violence survivors with relevant services and 1,300 Syrian refugees with gender-based violence related messages. Moreover, 7,317 women participate in recreational activities. UNFPA also establishes a new library book lending programme in Zaatari camp for youth.
IRAQ: UNFPA provides reproductive health services to 51,057 women; of these, 19,630 opted for Caesarian section. As many as 137,230 women receive gender-based violence related services and around 800 youth participate in various UNFPA-supported activities.
TURKEY: UNFPA provides 4,200 reproductive health services and 571 gender-based violence services. UNFPA also organizes two trainings on the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) in Ankara for 19 public health assistants and 24 members of the Turkish Medical Association, and carries out an emergency obstetric care training in Adana for 39 Turkish midwives and nurses in six provinces.
EGYPT: UNFPA supports the implementation of three new safe spaces for women and girls in Cairo, Giza, and Alexandria governorates. UNFPA also conducts outreach and health awareness activities, as well as art therapy and psychosocial support sessions in Maadi and Damietta safe spaces.
CROSS BORDER OPERATIONS: UNFPA dispatches 157 reproductive health kits to southern Syria, with enough supplies to serve 1.2 million beneficiaries for three months. UNFPA also establishes seven women and girls safe spaces in northern and southern Syria, and starts provision of comprehensive emergency obstetric care in seven centres in southern Syria. Moreover, the Fund distributes 5,500 dignity kits to southern Syria for pregnant women and women in need.