Northwest Syria Cash Working Group Earthquake Response Bulletin

1. MPC response overview

As of 25 April 2023, a total of 499,957 persons or 111,121 families have been reached by MPC interventions.

A total of USD 16.6 million has been disbursed by 21 implementing agencies across 35 sub-districts.

Only beneficiaries who have received at least USD 100/family/month have been included; excludes sector-based activities such as non-MPC cash-for-food.

500,000 people reached with MPC, USD 16.6 million disbursed, 25 April 2023

governorate	district	communities	partners	households	beneficiaries	total_usd	%_BNFb
Aleppo	A'zaz	9	8	3,169	11,089	280,779	2.22
Aleppo	Afrin	96	14	23,943	111,455	3,328,966	22.29
Aleppo	Al Bab	3	4	1,982	7,141	296,258	1.43
Aleppo	Jarablus	1	3	761	2,170	114,890	0.43
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	17	9	10,445	59,502	1,546,630	11.90
Ar-Raqqa	Tell Abiad	2	1	132	547	22,256	0.11
Idleb	Ariha	3	2	459	2,330	60,350	0.47
Idleb	Harim	51	15	55,682	239,702	8,453,740	47.94
Idleb	Idleb	23	13	10,362	48,670	1,873,706	9.73
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	32	4	4,186	17,351	574,568	3.47
Total	-	-	-	111,121	499,957	16,552,143	100.00
bAs percentage of all MPC beneficiaries reached in NW Syria;

166,136 beneficiary frequencies were reached in February 2023 and 204,860 were reached in March 2023. 142,236 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. The majority of MPC beneficiaries are from villages.

More than twice as many beneficiaries from villages as from camps

village_camps	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
camp	101,198	19.83
village	273,216	53.53
NA	136,013	26.65

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, Harim, 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 11.1`%.

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

Whilst it is heartening to see new sub-districts, the majority of planned allocations have been accorded to areas that have already received relatively high levels of support.

14 partners have reported planned activities

project_status	partners	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
Completed	20	499,957	87.72
Planned	12	64,868	11.38
Suspended	2	5,148	0.90

The sum of planned beneficiaries is 64,868. If this is the extent of all planned MPC activities, the CWG as a whole can expect to reach 85% of its target of 662,924 persons. But whilst the scale of achievements is important, it is also key to ensure that allocations are fair.

Planned beneficiaries by month

month1	beneficiaries
Apr	55,235
May	2,040
Jun	3,600
NA	3,993
1Some dates are missing or improperly encoded;

4. Cash response actors and cash disbursed

USD NA million has been distributed across 241 communities and 35 sub-districts in NW Syria.

Reach and footprint of cash response actors

implementing_partner1	beneficiaries	districts	communities
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	79,243	3	22
GOAL (GOAL)	67,015	3	82
People in Need (PIN)	39,972	6	29
Shafak Organization (SO)	35,865	5	16
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	20,900	2	5
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	17,343	6	28
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	16,971	5	37
CBRTWG-031	15,413	6	55
Ihsan for Relief and Development	15,197	3	20
Violet Organization	14,228	3	17
Mercy Without Limits	13,016	4	10
Bahar Organization (BO)	12,000	1	1
World Vision International (WVI)	7,008	1	4
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	4,830	4	4
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	3,700	5	7
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	3,050	1	2
MASRRAT	2,692	3	3
Elaf for relief and development	1,750	1	1
CBRTWG-033	1,455	2	4
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	213	1	2
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)	3,744,300	24,962	150.00	22.62
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	2,117,250	14,115	150.00	12.79
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	1,784,785	7,201	247.85	10.78
Shafak Organization (SO)	1,672,600	11,837	141.30	10.11
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	1,266,450	8,443	150.00	7.65
People in Need (PIN)	1,173,900	7,826	150.00	7.09
Ihsan for Relief and Development	689,550	4,597	150.00	4.17
Violet Organization	653,700	4,358	150.00	3.95
CBRTWG-031	548,800	6,150	89.24	3.32
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	530,300	5,402	98.17	3.20
Mercy Without Limits	438,372	3,325	131.84	2.65
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	428,325	3,211	133.39	2.59
Bahar Organization (BO)	360,000	2,400	150.00	2.17
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	344,400	2,296	150.00	2.08
World Vision International (WVI)	301,200	2,008	150.00	1.82
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	155,612	1,089	142.89	0.94
Elaf for relief and development	122,500	350	350.00	0.74
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	91,500	610	150.00	0.55
MASRRAT	81,000	540	150.00	0.49
CBRTWG-033	25,100	251	100.00	0.15
Social Development International	22,500	150	150.00	0.14

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, with 12 partners having reported so far in April. If no MPC activities were implemented, please inform the CWG as well.

2. For this reporting period, activities pertaining to 19,886 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.

4. The Cash Working Group is currently only collecting planned and implemented Multipurpose Cash achievements. Whilst the CWG welcomes additional inputs on other CVA activities, we also want to ensure that the reporting load is as low as possible for partners i.e. if an agency has implemented Cash-for-Work, this should be reported to the ERL Cluster. The CWG will work with all Clusters to develop a consolidated picture of response-wide CVA interventions.