Humanitarian Strategy

     In 2016, under the inter-agency Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP),6 humanitarian response will be combined with efforts to build the medium- and long-term resilience of affected individuals, households, communities and institutions in refugee hosting countries. 
    UNICEF is supporting the coordination of the No Lost Generation initiative to scale up and improve the quality of education, child protection and youth/adolescent programming across the five countries. 
    UNICEF is also implementing strategies to increase the supply of and access to services; improve service quality; increase demand and address barriers to access; and advocate for legal and policy reforms to strengthen national education and child protection services.            UNICEF is promoting access to quality education to reduce the number of out-of-school children and provide young people with life skills, while also supporting services for the most vulnerable children and youth at the community level. Dedicated youth programmes such as civic engagement and livelihood opportunities will also be promoted.
   In WASH, UNICEF is supporting the ongoing transition from emergency services to more sustainable cost-effective systems, including the replacement of water tankering with piped water networks, which will benefit refugees and host communities. 
   UNICEF will also strengthen national capacities, including by augmenting existing water, sewage and waste collection systems and building capacity on tariffs and regulatory frameworks. 
   The WASH sector will continue to work on preventing and responding to disease outbreaks. In health and nutrition, UNICEF will promote public health through vaccination campaigns, including against polio and measles, as well as by reinforcing routine immunization services. 
   Given the escalating vulnerabilities among refugees, UNICEF will reinforce nutritional screening and the provision of micronutrients and nutritional supplements, in particular for the most vulnerable children, youth and their families across the region. Programmes will be delivered in coordination with the operations described in the separate Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals for the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq and the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe - See more at: http://www.unicef.org/appeals/syrianrefugees.html#sthash.BB0YhN9Z.dpuf