Northwest Syria Cash Working Group Earthquake Response Bulletin

1. MPC response overview

As of 15 December 2023, a total of 1,003,464 persons or 198,992 families have been reached by MPC interventions.

A total of USD 32.2 million has been disbursed by 30 implementing agencies in 349 communities across 34 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.

1,003,000 people reached with MPC, USD 32.2 million disbursed, 15 December 2023

governorate	district	comm.	partners	households	beneficiaries	total_usd	%_BNF1
Aleppo	A'zaz	35	13	9,755	45,999	1,348,947	4.58
Aleppo	Afrin	139	20	58,950	254,375	8,249,960	25.35
Aleppo	Al Bab	5	6	7,947	42,213	1,198,798	4.21
Aleppo	Jarablus	1	2	458	1,250	75,572	0.12
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	18	12	15,753	75,813	2,190,395	7.56
Ar-Raqqa	Tell Abiad	2	1	102	399	19,912	0.04
Idleb	Ariha	10	6	2,848	14,829	435,600	1.48
Idleb	Harim	77	22	94,214	410,830	13,763,953	40.94
Idleb	Idleb	29	16	27,035	128,197	4,059,686	12.78
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	36	9	7,327	29,559	871,197	2.95
Total	-	-	-	224,389	1,003,464	32,214,020	100.00
1As percentage of all MPC beneficiaries reached in NW Syria

In February 2023, 149,489 beneficiary frequencies were reached, and in March 2023 the number increased to 83,553. In April 2023 124,101 were reached. As of May 2023, 99,421 beneficiaries have been reached, followed by 69,918 in June, with 129,028 in July 2023 with 142,402 in August 2023, with 70,976 in September 2023, while in October 2023 45,120, with 32,575 in November 2023, and 12,184 in December 2023.

This document distinguishes between beneficiaries, or unique individuals reached, and beneficiary frequencies, or the number of times people have been reached, inclusive of double counting.

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, where the highest numbers of damaged houses and wounded people are located (though these areas do not necessarily have the highest proportions of damage).

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	67,808	6.76
village	216,160	21.54
NA	719,496	71.70

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 multipurpose cash, in particular, Jandairis, Harim, Salqin and Sharan.

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

The average percentage of the population reached, of all sub-districts, is 16.37%.

3.2 Planned activities

We find it encouraging that new sub-districts are being included in the planned allocations, although it’s noteworthy that some of the planned allocation is still being assigned to areas that have already benefited from relatively high levels of support.

4. Cash response actors and cash disbursed

USD 32.2 million has been distributed across 349 communities and 34 sub-districts in NW Syria.

Reach and footprint of cash response actors

implementing_partner1	beneficiary_freq	districts	communities
GOAL (GOAL)	229,271	5	150
Shafak Organization (SO)	147,134	8	44
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	141,956	4	32
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	101,442	6	41
Takaful Al Sham (TAS)	65,035	4	57
Syria Relief (SR)	64,931	5	16
Violet Organization (VO)	51,207	5	38
Bahar Organization (BO)	36,025	2	32
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	32,291	3	7
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	27,434	9	25
Solidarités International (SI)	27,041	1	6
CBRTWG-031	27,001	6	54
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	26,913	4	10
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	23,696	4	8
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	18,597	3	11
Sened Organization (SENED)	15,995	4	7
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	15,422	4	7
People in Need (PIN)	12,804	5	6
World Vision International (WVI)	12,048	1	4
GMO -- Mercy Corps	9,870	1	1
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	6,900	3	4
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	6,654	3	9
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	6,651	1	7
Social Development International (SDI)	6,252	2	3
Hope Revival Organization (HRO)	4,850	1	18
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	3,050	1	2
Bonyan Organization (BO)	2,951	1	4
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	2,692	3	3
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	1,980	7	7
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	481	1	1
1Only partners who provided more than USD 100/family/month;

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

4.1 Cash disbursed per partner

Cash disbursed and families reached by partner

implementing_partner	total_usd	families	usd_per_fam	%_usd_total
GOAL (GOAL)	7,092,150	47,281	150.00	22.02
Shafak Organization (SO)	4,476,400	29,671	150.87	13.90
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	3,873,600	25,824	150.00	12.02
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	2,694,900	19,392	138.97	8.37
Syria Relief (SR)	2,054,158	13,304	154.40	6.38
Takaful Al Sham (TAS)	1,702,610	12,696	134.11	5.29
Violet Organization (VO)	1,447,550	10,680	135.54	4.49
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	1,154,929	6,323	182.66	3.59
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	1,103,850	7,359	150.00	3.43
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	827,600	5,971	138.60	2.57
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	710,148	3,997	177.67	2.20
CBRTWG-031	697,950	5,068	137.72	2.17
Solidarités International (SI)	581,850	5,091	114.29	1.81
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	467,100	4,198	111.27	1.45
People in Need (PIN)	411,450	2,743	150.00	1.28
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	399,731	2,877	138.94	1.24
Sened Organization (SENED)	379,200	2,528	150.00	1.18
Bahar Organization (BO)	360,000	7,205	49.97	1.12
World Vision International (WVI)	301,200	2,008	150.00	0.93
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	252,500	1,250	202.00	0.78
GMO -- Mercy Corps	218,100	2,181	100.00	0.68
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	210,079	1,400	150.06	0.65
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	179,250	1,195	150.00	0.56
Social Development International (SDI)	151,650	1,011	150.00	0.47
Hope Revival Organization (HRO)	121,250	970	125.00	0.38
Bonyan Organization (BO)	119,964	575	208.63	0.37
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	91,500	610	150.00	0.28
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	81,000	540	150.00	0.25
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	41,250	330	125.00	0.13
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	11,100	111	100.00	0.03

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

4.2 Currency disbursed

A total of 96.46% of cash disbursed was in USD.

Proportion of cash disbursed by currency

currency	total_usd	%_of_total
TRY	1,138,914	3.54
USD	31,075,104	96.46
Total	32,214,018	100.00

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 adopted a new 4Ws template for monthly reporting, aiming to improve the documentation of the earthquake response efforts. The reporting deadline is set on the 15th of each month. In February 9 partners reported their achievements, In March 9 partners have reported their achievements, with 17 partners having reported in April, in May 17 partners have reported. 11 partners have reported in June, with 12 partners have reported in July, while 16 reported in August, with 16 reported in September, with 10 reported in October, with 8 reported in November, and 7 reported in December. If no MPC activities were implemented, please inform the CWG as well.

2. For this reporting period, activities pertaining to 55,280 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 drop down menu.

3. For sex-and-age dis-aggregations, please do not back fill these columns using calculations based on the census or the MSNA. If no dis-aggregated 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.

5. Please indicate in the previously_assisted column whether or not beneficiaries have been reached before. However, if the beneficiaries are being reported for the first time to the Cash Working Group, even if you have reached them before, please indicate No in this column. This column is used to calculate the number of unique individuals reached.