The document summarizes humanitarian efforts and challenges in Syria between January and June 2016. It notes that 13.5 million Syrians need assistance, half are displaced, and conditions continue deteriorating. Over this period, partners provided food to 5.7 million people monthly and other assistance to millions more, though needs far exceed support. Access and funding remain critically insufficient, particularly in besieged and hard-to-reach areas.

1. SYRIAN ARAB
REPUBLIC
Credit: UNHCR
PREPARED BYTHE WHOLE OF SYRIA ISCCG FOR THE SSG
2016
RESPONSE PLAN
SUMMARY OF
HUMANITARIAN
MONITORING REPORT
JANUARY-JUNE 2016

2. PEOPLE IN HARD-TO-REACH
LOCATIONS
4.88M
ESTIMATED PEOPLE
IN NEED
13.5M
INTRODUCTION
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Now entering its sixth year, the conflict in Syria continues
to take a drastic toll on the lives of the Syrian people and to
drive an unprecedented humanitarian and protection crisis:
some 13.5 million people are now in need of humanitarian
assistance and protection, including 6 million children.
Half of the country’s pre-crisis population has been forced
from their homes, with around one third of the remaining
population now displaced within Syria and over 4.8 seeking
refuge in neighbouring countries and beyond.
Due to continued conflict, access constraints, and a still
deepening economic recession, among other factors, the
already catastrophic humanitarian landscape continues to
deteriorate. Since January, over 900,000 people – an average
of 5,000 per day – have been newly displaced and the number
unable to obtain the basic food required to meet their needs has
risen from 6.3 million to 6.7 million (6 per cent).
Over the first six months of 2016, humanitarian partners,
including UN agencies, international NGOs, and national NGOs
working together from multiple hubs (Syria, Turkey, Jordan,
Lebanon, and Iraq) under the Whole of Syria (WoS) approach,
have delivered humanitarian assistance and protection services
to millions of people across the country each month. Although
surpassed by the immensity of needs, the scale of the response
remains staggering; between 1 January and 30 June 2016 alone,
through a combination of regular, cross-line, and cross-border
modalities, humanitarian partners have, inter alia:
• Reached an average of 5.7 million people every month
with food assistance;
• Provided 4.2 million people with direct assistance, such
as water purification supplies, hygiene kits, and essential
household and winterization items;
• Cumulatively, provided over 8 million people with
water and sanitation supplies and services, including water,
through water trucking (1.6 million people), household-
level water purification (1.3 million people), and emergency
water and sanitation infrastructure (600,000 people);
• Supported or carried out 7 million medical procedures
and provided more than 7 million treatment courses;
• Launched an accelerated multi-antigen immunization
campaign – the first nationwide campaign since the
beginning of the crisis. Out of 1.8 million children
targeted during the first phase, 1.3 million children
(74%) were successfully reached from inside Syria and
through cross-border support from Turkey.
• Providing over 1 million children with access to learning
programmes;
• Screened 557,000 children under five for acute
malnutrition and supported 838,000 girls and boys under 5
with Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (LNS); and
• Supported over 1.5 million people to access basic and
social infrastructure, services, and/or livelihoods.
Notably, the first six months of 2016 also saw a sharp increase in the
level of assistance reaching people living in the besieged and hard-
to-reach locations. For the first time since the crisis, all 18 besieged
locations were reached, at least once, through inter-agency convoys.
CHILDREN IN
NEED
6M
NUMBER OF FOOD
INSECURE PEOPLE
6.7M
increased 6%, from 6.3M
in September 2015
ASSISTANCE TO BESIEGED LOCATIONS ASSISTANCE TO HARD-TO-REACH LOCATIONS
JAN FEB MAR APR
58%
7%
35%
64%
8%
28%
75%
10%
15%
54%
6%
20%
20%
402,068 People reached* in besieged locations
% People assisted through cross-line
% People assisted through cross-border % People not reached
% People assisted through airdrops
JAN FEB MAR APR
85%
6%
9%
86%
4%
10%
89%
5%
6%
86%
6%
8%
1,165,235 People reached* in hard-to-reach locations
% People assisted through cross-line
% People assisted through cross-border
% People not reached
PEOPLE IN BESIEGED
LOCATIONS
0.59M

3. KEY GAPS
Despite the humanitarian community’s continued efforts
to deliver assistance to people in need across Syria, critical
gaps remain. 125 sub-districts out of a total of 272 remain
underserved and 17 sub-districts have not been reached at
all in 2016. Meanwhile, the 1.7 million IDPs now living in
camps, improvised settlements, and collective centres and
the hundreds of thousands concentrated at Syria’s borders
have ever-growing humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities. In
large population centres and areas hosting large numbers and
concentrations of IDPs, stepped-up service delivery is needed.
In addition, since late January, intensified fighting in Aleppo
– the second largest urban centre in Syria – has demanded
a scaled-up emergency response, while the escalation of
hostilities has created severe access constraints and forced
humanitarian actors to periodically suspend day-to-day
services and/or adjust modalities of delivery. Humanitarian
access to ISIL-held areas and protection of civilians also
remained vast challenges during the reporting period.
FUNDING TO HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN 2016
THE WAY FORWARD
In the coming six months, the humanitarian community’s
key cross-cutting priorities will include: (i) sustaining and,
wherever possible, increasing life-saving and life-sustaining
humanitarian assistance to all people in need, particularly in
conflict-affected areas; (ii) sustained advocacy to lift all sieges
and to access and respond to the immense needs in besieged,
militarily encircled, and other hard-to-reach areas, as well
as responding to needs arising from the crisis in Aleppo;
(iii) working in close collaboration with humanitarian
partners in the region to address the ever-growing needs
and vulnerabilities among IDPs and asylum seekers at Syria’s
borders, where conditions are often deplorable; (iv) scaling
up service delivery in priority locations, particularly with
regards to health (completing the immunization campaign
and responding to medical emergency needs) and support to
water supply systems; (v) providing assistance and protection
to the estimated 6 million children living through conflict
and displacement in Syria, including through support to
the back-to-learning campaign; (vi) delivering assistance to
growing populations unable to access heating materials and
adequate shelter through the cold winter months; and (vii)
continuing efforts to sustain and restore access to livelihoods,
doubling efforts to support the upcoming winter planting
season. With the overall level of conflict now beginning
to increase across the country, strengthened preparedness
efforts are also essential.
DRIVERS, NEEDS & KEY FIGURES
450,000are
Palestine refugees,
95 per cent of whom
are in continuous need of
humanitarian aid
1.5million people living with
disabilities
900,000new displacements
– an average of 5,000 per day – since
January 2016
2.1 million children (nearly 40
per cent) are
out-of-school,
heightening vulnerability to child
labor,
early and/or forced marriage,
and recruitment by armed
groups;
More than halfof public health
care facilities are either closed or
only partially functioning
Upwards of 250,000
people killed and over 1.2 million
injured since the onset of conflict
BY JUNE 2016, OVER 4.8 MILLION
SYRIANS HAD BEEN REGISTERED
AS PERSONS OF CONCERN IN
HOST COUNTRIES, PRIMARILY IN
THE REGION
2/3 of the population has no
consistent access to safe water
95%
Total Gap
Funding available (HRP)*
Requirements
US$ 3.2bn
66.6% 33.4%
*Figure does not include an additional US$ 63.9 million (2%)
in funding to HRP partners, which remains to be reported
against the HRP

4. For more information on the 2016 HRP please visit www.unocha.org/syria
ACHIEVEMENTS AND SECTOR FUNDING
* People reached against sector targets do not always correlate with percentage funding. This is because targets tend to refer to populations in need of an array
of services, often in a sustained manner, and it is on this basis that funding requirements are calculated, whereas reach may refer to beneficiaries who have
received at least one service during the reporting period. Therefore, limited funding may still enable sectors to partially assist a large percentage of their target.
** Critical, “enabling” sectors also facilitate and underpin the work undertaken which other humanitarian sectors carry out. Notably, at the time of reporting, the
Emergency Telecommunication sector remains 100% underfunded, the Logistics sector remains 50% underfunded, and the Coordination and Common Services
sector remains 75% underfunded.
*** This figure does not refer to number of people reached but, for Protection, number of interventions, and for Health, number of medical procedures carried
out in the reporting period.
HEALTH
PROTECTION
EARLY RECOVERY
AND LIVELIHOODS
CCCM
WASH
AGRICULTURE
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
NON-FOOD ITEMS
SHELTER
EDUCATION
SECTOR/CLUSTER PEOPLE IN NEED
5.7M
2.4M
5.3M
3.1M
8.7M
12.1M
6.5M
9.2M
13.5M
11.5M
1.1M
0.16M
4.2M
1.8M
6.4M
0.92M
16.4M
0.93M
1.5M
2.2M***
7.3M***
4.6M
1.2M
5.3M
1.9M
7.5M
4.3M
14.7M
3.2M
3.6M
10.9M
13M
61%
89%
84%
58%
87%
92%
65%
80%
83%
Total Requirements
US$200 million
Current Funding Status
US$77.2 million
Total Requirements
US$525 million
Current Funding Status
US$57.7 million
Total Requirements
US$1.24 billion
Current Funding Status
US$ 518 million
Total Requirements
US$51 million
Current Funding Status
US$8 million
Total Requirements
US$252 million
Current Funding Status
US$33.5 million
Total Requirements
US$25.5 million
Current Funding Status
US$2 million
Total Requirements
US$148.5 million
Current Funding Status
US$51.2 million
Total Requirements
US$236 million
Current Funding Status
US$47.2 million
Total Requirements
US$441 million
Current Funding Status
US$74.5 million
PEOPLE COVERED PEOPLE TARGETED FUNDING* % FUNDING GAP**
Required vs. Received to date (US$ million) Source: Financial Tracking Service (FTS)