1. Syria Early Recovery & Resilience
Syria Early Recovery Mainstreaming workshop
Beirut
September 2016

2. HUMANITARIAN RECOVERY
DEVELOPMENT
RELIEF
CRISIS
HUMANITARIAN
RECOVERY
Breakdown
Lost momentum
Partial solution
Rebuilding risk
Dependency
Forgotten
Relapses
ETC.
Let's observe how the international community used to respond to a crisis:
When a crisis occurred, only humanitarians were expected to immediately respond. The humanitarian needs decreased and the crisis progressively disappeared. The humanitarian actors moved to another crisis. It took some time before the development actors arrived to start recovery, reconstruction and development work, prolonging the dependency to handouts and decreasing humanitarian aid.
The transition phase was identified as a phase between humanitarian and development phases. It was also called the development gap.
As a consequence of this gap, we often lost momentum, and the gap rebuilt risks, sometimes creating a new – silent and forgotten - humanitarian crisis…
TRANSITION PHASE

3. HUMANITARIAN RECOVERY
DEVELOPMENT
Humanitarian phase
CRISIS
LINES OF ACTION:
Relief
Humanitarian response to chronic crisis
Early recovery
Peacebuilding
- Development
RELIEF
EARLY
HUMANITARIAN
RECOVERY
Breakdown
Lost momentum
Partial solution
Rebuilding risk
Dependency
Forgotten
Relapses
ETC.
Focused
Resilience
Self-reliance
Reducing risks
Comprehensive
Smoother transition
Continuity
ETC
To avoid this gap, the humanitarian reform proposed to start recovery as early as possible during the humanitarian phase, the transition phase being the overlap between the humanitarian phase and the development phase.
Recovery is the process of transformation from relief to development during the transition period.
“Early recovery” is recovery that begins in a humanitarian setting. It is not a separate phase within a relief-development continuum, but rather an effort to strengthen the effectiveness of the linkage, by engaging both the humanitarian and development communities.
The earlier in the humanitarian phase the planning and work on recovery begins, the sooner national institutions can move forward in providing basic services and assuming governance functions to stabilize affected areas.
Rather than a continuum, experience shows that simultaneous lines of action are required at the earliest stage of the crisis.
Early recovery provides a unique opportunity for humanitarian and development actors to work together as early as possible in support of nationally-led recovery efforts.
TRANSITION PHASE

4. What is Early Recovery?
Relief and early recovery together make up the humanitarian response to a crisis
A multi-dimensional approach to make the gains of humanitarian action gradually sustainable
A coordinated approach to help humanitarian response contribute to sustainable recovery opportunities, support resilience building and to provide a platform to achieve longer-term development objectives.

5. Resilience
A transformative process of strengthening the capacity of people, communities, institutions and countries
to anticipate and prevent, absorb and adapt, recover and transform from shocks and stresses at and across human, community, institutional, and environmental levels. 

7. Funding Early Recovery
2015 full year :
47% of the projects are ER related
ER-related funds received compared to ER-related funds requested 38%
2016 mid-year :
49% of the projects are ER related
Proportion of ER funds requested : 39%
Total ER related funds received compared to requested : 14%
Total non ER related funds received compared to requested : 21%

8. Funding Requested for Early Recovery
Mainstreaming Early Recovery
Clusters
Funding Requested for Early Recovery
% of ER projects funded
CCCM
18%
28%
Early Recovery
100%
42%
Education
59%
29%
Food Security
41%
Health
34%
44%
Multi-cluster
40%
22%
Nutrition
33%
Protection
37%
38%
Shelter
43%
WASH

9. Early Recovery funding: Syria
45% of the projects are ER related
ER-related funds received compared to ER-related funds requested 28%
Non-ER funds received compared to Non-ER funds requested 27%
Proportion of funds received compare to funds requested 33%
2016 Syria
47% of the projects are ER related
ER-related funds received compared to ER-related funds requested 10%
Non-ER funds received compared to Non-ER funds requested 17%
Proportion of funds received compare to funds requested 23%