Northwest Syria Cash Working Group Earthquake Response Bulletin

1. MPC response overview

As of 11 April 2023, a total of 448,317 persons or 90,324 families have been reached by MPC interventions. A total of USD 13.3 million has been disbursed by 17 implementing agencies across 28 sub-districts.

With only certain exceptions (such as activities specified as non-MPC cash-for-food), only beneficiaries who have received at least USD 100/family/month have been included.

448,000 people reached with MPC, USD 13.3 million disbursed, 11 April 2023

governorate	district	communities	partners	households	beneficiaries	total_usd	%_BNFb
Aleppo	A'zaz	5	7	2,994	14,578	424,067	3.25
Aleppo	Afrin	75	10	25,162	125,312	3,726,192	27.95
Aleppo	Al Bab	3	2	998	5,011	137,791	1.12
Aleppo	Jarablus	1	3	589	2,805	88,350	0.63
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	15	8	9,226	53,754	1,380,550	11.99
Idleb	Harim	38	13	43,136	204,566	6,273,250	45.63
Idleb	Idleb	17	10	5,634	28,502	879,372	6.36
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	21	3	2,585	13,789	350,200	3.08
Total	-	-	-	90,324	448,317	13,259,772	100.00
bAs percentage of all MPC beneficiaries reached in NW Syria;

177,525 beneficiaries were reached in February 2023 and 200,330 were reached in March 2023. 52,252 have been reached so far in April 2023.

The cleaning and verification of the dataset is still ongoing, many changes in numbers of persons reached reflect this process and will only be completed once the CWG fully transitions to 4Ws reporting.

1.1 Progress by date

The small number of beneficiaries reached earlier than February all pertained to the HRP, the only such beneficiaries reported so far. The CWG would like to encourage partners to report on their January achievements.

2. Map of activities

3. Geographic breakdown of beneficiaries

Coverage continues to be highest in Afrin and Harim districts, which have been worst-hit by the earthquake.

Casualties and damaged houses, absolute figures and per 100,000 persons

governorate	district	wounded_dead1	wounded_dead_100k1	damaged_houses1	damaged_houses_100k1
Aleppo	A'zaz	356	57.87	276	44.86
Aleppo	Afrin	2,232	478.79	2,910	624.22
Aleppo	Al Bab	206	70.04	832	282.89
Aleppo	Jarablus	40	33.82	257	217.30
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	616	236.80	176	67.66
Idleb	Harim	8,449	507.65	3,230	194.07
Idleb	Idleb	350	48.23	946	130.37
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	595	183.68	1,915	591.18
1Data from the Assistance Coordination Unit, Syria 20230328;

Below is a breakdown of beneficiaries based on whether they originate from camps or villages:

More than twice as many beneficiaries from villages as from camps

village_camps	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
camp	94,430	21.06
village	228,690	51.01
NA	125,197	27.93

3.1 By sub-district

The plots below show the breakdown of beneficiaries by sub-district. Caution must be taken to ensure that allocations are fair across the affected areas: there are numerous sub-districts where a very large proportion of the total population has already been reached by multi-purpose cash, in particular, Jandairis, Hairm, Salqin and Sharan.

Response activities must be proportional with the magnitude and severity of earthquake damage. Overallocation deprives affected persons of the aid they are due.

The average percentage of the population reached, of all sub-districts, is 10.63%.

3.2 Comparisons with PIN and earthquake damage

The plot below shows the total population of each sub-district on the x-axis (for the moment, all persons in these areas are assumed to be affected and are included in the PIN) and the number of beneficiaries on the y-axis.

The size of each point indicates the number of dead or wounded persons there per 100,000.

The higher or lower a sub-district is above the blue line, the more disproportionate the number of beneficiaries allocated to that location are.

This should also be compared to each sub-district’s share of the earthquake damage. Of particular note, sub-districts in grey have yet to receive any MPC assistance.

The CWG is currently working on a prioritisation score, which can be a useful shorthand, that will take into account pre-existing vulnerability (likely from the MSNA) as well as earthquake impacts.

3.3 Planned activities

12 partners have reported planned activities

project_status	partners	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
Completed	17	448,317	88.22
Planned	12	59,884	11.78
Suspended	1	0	0.00

The sum of planned beneficiaries is 59,884. If this is the extent of all planned MPC activities, the CWG as a whole can expect to reach around 77% of its target of 662,942 persons.

Planned beneficiaries by month

month1	beneficiaries
Apr	43,243
Jun	3,600
May	188
NA	12,853
1Some dates are missing or improperly encoded;

4. Cash response actors and cash disbursed

USD 13.3 million has been distributed across 174 communities and 28 sub-districts in NW Syria.

Reach and footprint of cash response actors

implementing_partner1	beneficiaries	districts	communities
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	67,989	3	20
People in Need (PIN)	36,144	3	25
GOAL (GOAL)	34,310	3	70
Shafak Organization (SO)	33,115	5	15
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	20,900	2	5
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	14,197	5	27
Mercy Without Limits	13,016	4	10
Bahar Organization (BO)	12,000	1	1
CBRTWG-031	10,481	7	28
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	10,351	4	16
Syria Relief	9,750	5	7
Ihsan for Relief and Development	8,655	5	16
World Vision International (WVI)	7,008	1	4
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	4,830	4	4
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	3,060	1	2
MASRRAT	2,692	3	3
Elaf for relief and development	1,750	1	1
1Only partners who provided more than USD 100/family/month;

In the scatterplot below, each point is a single cash working group partner. The x-axis indicates the number of beneficiaries reached per agency and the y-axis indicates the number of communities (admin4) reached. Mouse over each point for more details.

4.1 USD disbursed per partner

USD disbursed and families reached by partner

implementing_partner	total_usd	families	usd_per_fam	%_usd_total
GOAL (GOAL)	2,998,650	19,991	150.00	22.61
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	1,773,750	11,825	150.00	13.38
Shafak Organization (SO)	1,590,100	11,287	140.88	11.99
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	1,266,450	8,443	150.00	9.55
People in Need (PIN)	927,450	6,183	150.00	6.99
Ihsan for Relief and Development	854,250	5,695	150.00	6.44
Syria Relief	724,500	4,830	150.00	5.46
CBRTWG-031	515,350	3,373	152.79	3.89
Mercy Without Limits	438,372	3,325	131.84	3.31
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	409,800	4,098	100.00	3.09
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	375,000	2,500	150.00	2.83
Bahar Organization (BO)	360,000	2,400	150.00	2.71
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	344,400	2,296	150.00	2.60
World Vision International (WVI)	301,200	2,008	150.00	2.27
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	177,000	1,180	150.00	1.33
Elaf for relief and development	122,500	350	350.00	0.92
MASRRAT	81,000	540	150.00	0.61

The CWG is currently working with other Clusters to consolidate all cash-based activities and will soon be able to provide more comprehensive reporting.

5. Annexes

5.1 Interactive reference table at sub-district level

Columns include: governorate, district, sub-district, total population, beneficiaries, total usd disbursed, wounded and dead, wounded and dead per 100k, damaged houses, damaged houses per 100k, admin3pcode

5.2 Reporting quality

This section documents issues encountered in the cleaning of 4W and FSL data and their impacts on the quality of reporting the CWG can provide. The recommendations by the CWG are included to enhance reporting quality:

1. The CWG has shifted into a new 4Ws template for biweekly reporting to better capture the earthquake response. Deadlines are set on the 10th and the 25th of each month. 8 partners reported achievements in February and 10 reported achievements in March. The CWG encourages all partners to submit include their January achievements in the 4Ws. If no MPC activities were implemented, please inform the CWG as well.

2. For this reporting period, activities pertaining to 16,460 beneficiaries were missing their dates or had dates in unreadable formats. Please ensure that the start date and end date are entered in the format mm/dd/yyyy and select the month of reporting from the options in the dropdown menu.

3. For sex-and-age disggregations, please do not backfill these columns using calculations based on the census or the MSNA. If no disaggregated data is available to your organisation, please leave these columns blank.