HIGHLIGHTS
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
UNFPA delivers 64,815 reproductive health services to 21,200 women, while around 1,000 women benefit from the UNFPA voucher system in Damascus, Rural Damascus, and Aleppo. UNFPA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Syrian Family Planning Association (SFPA), inaugurates a new reproductive health clinic and women’s safe space in Al Hamidiyeh and HabNemra in the old city of Homs. UNFPA also distributes dignity kits to 21,433 women and 864 men residing in Bloudan and Homs.
LEBANON
UNFPA organizes a nine-day training programme on family planning, maternal health, and sexually transmitted infections for a group of 40 women from eight villages. UNFPA, in partnership with KAFA’s listening and counseling centre, provides services to 96 Lebanese and Syrian women gender-based violence survivors and holds follow-up sessions for 90 women. It also provides 84 psychological consultations to 25 Lebanese and Syrian survivors, while providing other referral services to eight survivors.
JORDAN
UNFPA provides more than 13,020 reproductive health services and more than 200 safe deliveries to women in the supported health facilities. A total of 686 gender-based violence survivors benefit from the UNFPA-supported services and 3,703 women, girls, men and boys are directly sensitized on gender-based violence issues, services available and referral pathways. More than 3,000 Syrian and Jordanian boys and girls participate in UNFPA-supported activities in host community and in camps.
IRAQ
UNFPA establishes two women’s safe spaces in Domiz 2 and Gawilan camps and a youth space in Gawilan camp. A total of 6,666 women benefit from reproductive health services in 18 locations inside camps and in host communities in Erbil, Dohuk, and Sulaymaniyah. A total of 59 youth participate in basic peer education training while 172 young girls and boys participate in different kinds of activities in Domiz 1 and Gawilan camps.
TURKEY
UNFPA conducts the minimum initial service package (MISP) and emergency obstetric care training. It also distributes 20,050 hygiene kits in six provinces and 77 reproductive health kits in Urfa and Suruç camps, covering the needs of 100,000 persons. Moreover, it develops 10 brochures on antenatal care, postnatal care, newborn care, nutrition during pregnancy, safe delivery, family planning, infant nutrition, sexually transmitted infections, and hand-washing. A total of 3,333 Syrians benefit from reproductive health services.
EGYPT
UNFPA supports 20 sessions for 207 women and girls in Damietta, covering topics on reproductive health and gender-based violence. In 6th October City, 35 girls receive life skills training in the UNFPA-supported safe space. In Alexandria, 22 physicians are trained on emergency neonatal and obstetric care, while in Damietta and Cairo, 20 physicians at public primary health care units receive training on gynecological ultrasound. UNFPA supports the establishment of a new women and girls safe space in Cairo, targeting over 2,000 Syrian women and providing multi-sectoral gender-based violence services.