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Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs

In April 2016, the international humanitarian community welcomed the long-waited cessation of hostilities agreed by the parties of the conflict in Yemen and the continuation of the peace talks.

Although various official and unofficial sources confirmed a significant reduc-tion in violence since the beginning of the truce, hostilities were reported in several parts of the country causing the delay of the peace talks until 21 April, which were set to open in Kuwait on 18 April. Nevertheless, UNICEF and part-ners were able to reach areas difficult to access in Taiz, Sa’ada, Al Jawf, Marib and Al Bayda.

Regarding the cessation of hostilities, in a joint statement Ms. Leila Zerrougui - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict - and Dr. Peter Salama - UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa- called on all parties to the conflict “to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, to commit to releasing children who have been recruited and used in the fighting, and to end all

Highlights

• In April, a nationwide cessation of hostilities began and a new round of peace talks started with high hopes for further steps towards the long-waited peace in Yemen. UNICEF and partners welcome the agree-ment and expanded the humanitarian response in previously active conflict areas namely; Taiz, Sa’ada, Al Jawf, Marib and Al Bayda includ-ing education assessment in Taiz and Sa’ada.

• Between 10 and 12 April, UNICEF supported a Nation-wide polio vac-cination campaign. At least 4.6 million children under 5 years were vaccinated against polio and over 3.9 million children were given Vit-amin A.

• UNICEF provided the 6th monthly cycle of humanitarian cash transfers for over 4,700 vulnerable families in Amanat Al Asimah. Preparation are underway to increase the number of target households in Taiz gov-ernorate in the coming months.

• UNICEF mobile teams were deployed and provided emergency health and nutrition services to 107 IDPs families in Amran as an immediate response to the flash floods affecting nearly 30,000 people in seven governorates.

People in need of urgent humanitarian assistance: 21.1 million people, of which:

9.9 million are children

2.7 million are IDPs (31% children) (Task Force on Population Movement 8th report, Pro-tection Cluster)

320,000 children under 5 at risk of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)

19.3 million people in need of WASH assis-tance

14.1 million people in need of basic health care UNICEF 2016 Requirements:

US $180 million Funds received in 2016:

US $ 32.7 million (82 per cent gap)

Overall Funding Status*

*Excluding US$ 59.7 million carried forward into 2016.

Funded$32.7M

18%

Gap$147.3M

82%

TotalRequested

$180M

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grave violations against boys and girls. Parties should take every possible measure to protect schools and hospitals, and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to children and all those in need.”

The sustained conflict has left over 21.1 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, as estimated by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) by the end of 2015. But the caseload continues to increase with 2.7 million internal displaced persons (IDP) -according to the latest report of TFPM1 - a six-fold the number of IDPs at the same time last year.

In addition, since 13 April nearly 30,000 people have been affected by flash floods consequence of heavy rains across seven governorates.2 Floods caused damage to infrastructure and crops, and loss of livestock. Sana'a, Amran and Marib governorates –also affected by the ongoing violence – reported the highest number of people with urgent needs of shel-ter, food, health and WASH assistance. UNICEF deployed immediate assistance to Amran after the emergency where mobile teams provided health and nutrition assistance.

Humanitarian Leadership and Coordination UNICEF continues to work in coordination with the Yemen Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), leading the WASH, Educa-tion and Nutrition Clusters and the Child Protection Sub-Cluster, and continues to be an active member of the Health Cluster. UNICEF has also established sub-national level Clusters for WASH, Child Protection and Education in Aden and Nutrition Sub-Clusters in all field offices. UNICEF has been the lead agency to establish humanitarian hubs in Ibb and Sa’ada.

UNICEF continues to review and monitor programme implementation through local partners, utilising remote monitoring and innovative mobile technology. Efforts continue to diversify and expand partnerships with local NGOs to deliver hu-manitarian programmes on the ground.

Humanitarian Strategy The Level 3 Corporate Emergency activated in 2015 has been extended until 30 June 2016. UNICEF’s humanitarian strategy continues to be guided by its Core Commitments to Children in Humanitarian Action and are in line with the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) 2016. UNICEF continues to advocate at country, regional and global level for unhin-dered humanitarian access, protection of humanitarian supplies and sites.

UNICEF remains focused on ensuring availability of basic social services to the most vulnerable including IDPs, host com-munities and other conflict-affected populations. UNICEF provides an integrated package of both preventive and curative health and nutrition services to children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women. This is done via support to mobile clinics, community outreach activities and health facilities. In addition, displaced families are being provided safe water and hygiene facilities. UNICEF also continues to works with government partners to re-open schools, provide catch up classes, teaching and learning supplies and encourage alternative accommodation for displaced persons occupying schools. Psychosocial support is provided to children and their families through schools and community facilities, including child friendly spaces. Through the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) on Grave Violations against Children - that covers over 50 districts in ten governorates - UNICEF continues to generate data to monitor the situation and provide response, and to advocate with parties to conflict and other stakeholders for protection of civilians. Given the fairly sub-optimal pre-conflict situation and the further deterioration in livelihoods and financial vulnerabilities and their grave im-pact on children and women, UNICEF is working to ensure that targeted cash grants reach the most vulnerable families in Yemen. There is need for rapid scale up of this assistance in its sustainability at least for the near future.

Given the disputed nature of the government of Yemen, UNICEF has maintained both its political neutrality and working relationships with government by partnering with technical ministries and sub-national government entities to deliver impartial humanitarian relief. To maintain coordination, UNICEF’s rolling working plans have been shared with and signed by relevant line ministries.

Summary Analysis of Programme Response

Health & Nutrition UNICEF and partners continue putting in place an integral intervention for continued ser-vice delivery through mobile teams in the most affected areas, community outreach in re-mote locations and support to health facilities.

1 8th Report of the Task Force on Population Movement (TFPM) 2 Hodeidah, Amran, Hajjah, Sana'a, Abyan, Al Mahwit and Marib.

320,000 children under 5

at risk of Severe Acute Malnu-trition (SAM)

14.1 million people

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During April, UNICEF and partners continued the scale up on its Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme. At least 107,941 children from 6 to 59 months3 were screened for acute malnutrition; of these, 22,455 children4 were treated for severe acute malnutrition (SAM). To complement the nutrition interventions, 274 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)5 received hygiene kits. In addition, 10,033 children received vitamin A and micronutrient supplement, and 6,891 received deworming capsules.

Mothers, pregnant and lactating women (PLW) also benefited from CMAM, 31,186 mothers of children under 59 months received infant and young child feeding counselling, and 40,739 PLW received iron folate supplementation.

During the reporting period, 757 health workers, volunteers and midwifes from eight governorates took part of capacity building initiatives supported by UNICEF for training community health workers and volunteers on CMAM, IYCF, growth monitoring and nutrition program strengthening (see Table 1).

Between 10 and 12 April, a three day nationwide polio vaccination campaign was conducted in Yemen. According to preliminary reports, at least 4.6 million children under 5 years were vaccinated against polio and over 3.9 million children6 were given Vitamin A. More than 46,000 health workers at central, governorate and district level were involved in the campaign, including 40,000 vaccinators. The campaign was jointly supported by UNICEF, WHO and World Bank. UNICEF funded operational costs in seven governorates, supported social mobilization and communication activities, supported supervision activities of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP), assisted the functioning of the national Polio control room and provided 5.6 million doses of OPV for the campaign. In Al Mukalla (Hadramout), all vaccinated children were screened for acute malnutrition. Due to hostilities, activities were suspended in two districts in Taiz.

On 23 April, Yemen launched the OPV switch from tOPV7 to bOPV.8 UNICEF procured approx. 1.48 million doses of bOPV which were distributed to all service delivery points by the 21st of April. UNICEF also supported the development of the health workers’ guideline, and communication and awareness activities.

In response to flash floods reported since 13 April, UNICEF supported the immediate deployment of mobile teams in Amran. In collaboration with the EU, mobile teams screened schools to identify IDP settlements and provided health and nutrition services (see Table 2).

Table 1: Capacity building initiatives supported by UNICEF (April 2016)

Activity No. people

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) trained on CMAM and IYCF.9 (Taiz, Sana’a)

97

CHVs trained on growth monitoring and commu-nity mobilization (Taiz)

124

Health workers (HW) trained on CMAM (Lahj, Dhala)

46

HW took part of CMAM refresher trainings (Amran)

291

Midwives trained on IYCF (Raymah) 48

CHV and HW participated in evaluation meetings to collect reports, promote dialogue on lessons learnt, programming strengths and challenges, and discuss solutions (Shabwah).

123 CHV / 28 HW

Table 2: Services provided by mobile teams in floods-affected communities

(Amran, April 2016)

Service Beneficiaries

Delivery of hygiene kits along with hygiene awareness sessions.

107 IDP families

Screening for malnutrition (3 boys, 1 girl found to be severely acute malnourished)

189 children

SAM cases admitted to the outpatient thera-peutic program

4 children

Antenatal care and folic acid 40 pregnant women

Postnatal care and folic acid 34 lactating women

Birth control measures 61 women

Integrated management of childhood illness 245 children under 5

Vaccination 13 children

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) During April, nearly 2.1 million people have been provided with regular access to water, through the fuel support given by UNICEF to Local Water Corporations10 in eight gover-norates.11 Water trucking continued for 52,133 people (including 33,375 in conflict-affected districts of Taiz and 18,758 people in three other governorates12). In three governorates 13, 3,610 ceramic water filters were distributed reaching more than 23,000 people, 129 water tanks were installed to serve IDP families 14 and hygiene awareness sessions were conducted reaching 29,603 individuals.15

3 53,091 male, 54,850 female. 4 10,132 boys, 12,323 girls. 5 120 boys, 154 girls. 6 412,000 children 6-11 months, 3.47 million children 12-59 months. 7 tOPV: trivalent oral polio vaccine. 8 bOPV: bivalent oral polio vaccine. 9 IYCF: Infant and Young Child Feeding. 10 Local water authorities. 11 Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a city), Al Hudaydah, Amran, Hajjah, Sa'ada, Abyan, Lahj and Marib governorates. 12 Amanat Al Asimah, Sa'ada and Al Jawf governorates. 13 In Socotra: 493 filters for 3,451 people. Shabwah: 500 filters for 3,500 people. Al Jawf: 2,617 filters for 16,632 people. . 14 In Hajjah and Sa'ada governorates. . 15 In Amran, Hajjah and Shabwah governorates.

lack sufficient access to healthcare

19.3 million people

with WASH needs

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Ensure the continuity of sanitation services is crucial to disease prevention. With UNICEF support, the wastewater treat-ment plant in Amanat Al Asimah continued operating benefiting at least 1.4 million people in Sana’a city. In four gover-norates, UNICEF supports the solid waste management in a catchment area of over 1,128,104 people16.

UNICEF distributed 4,789 hygiene kits to approx. 31,836 people in four governorates 17 and 1,115 monthly consumable hygiene to IDPs families in settlements in Hajjah. 18

Child Protection In the last two months, UNICEF has expanded the Child Protection programme and part-nerships with implementing partners -including government, local and international NGOs- as well as its geographic coverage.

During April, the CTF MR19 verified 29 incidents of grave violations: three killing and maiming, 23 recruitment and use, one case of abduction and two attacks on hospitals. In order to improve reporting capacities, the MRM network is inte-grating the identification of children affected by conflict within existing child friendly spaces (CFS). Animators in ten CFS in Amanat Al Asimah and Sana’a are now trained on identify and reporting on grave violations affecting children. Addi-tionally, 12 females and 27 males have been trained on MRM in Taiz. During the reporting period, UNICEF trained staff from nine INGOs on MRM, this is part of the collaboration between MRM network and the OCHA-led Access Monitoring and Reporting Frame to monitor access constraints.

To help children overcome the psychosocial well-being of children exposed to conflict, UNICEF continues to provide psy-chosocial support (PSS) through community based and mobile CFS activities, reaching at least 81,119 conflict-affected children in April.

Mine risk education (MRE) activities were scaled up in areas of difficult access such as Taiz and Al Jawf, and reached at least 200,179 people20 with life-saving information on how to protect themselves from the risks of mines, UXOs21 and ERW22 in southern and northern governorates, particularly in Taiz during the cessation of hostilities. On the occasion of the International Day for Mine risk Education and Mine Assistance (4 April), UNICEF supported YEMAC23 to raise aware-ness and advocate to protect civilians from the impact of the conflict, including: a photo exhibition, six TV and radio flashes, six TV round tables, and two songs featured on TV and Radio.

Given the increasing needs in southern governorates, in coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MO-SAL), UNIEF conducted two intensive training workshops on PSS/CFS and MRE with 36 participants from MOSAL branches and local NGOs in six governorates. Trainees are now equipped with information and skills to train community volunteers.

Since 17 April, a total of 30,703 marginalized, disadvantaged and vulnerable children were provided with birth certificates through Civil Registration Authority (CRA) mobile teams in four governorates.24 At the same time, children, parents and community members received awareness on the importance of birth registration and how to seek the service in the fu-ture.

Education Over 560,000 children25 remain out of school due to continued closure of 1,600 schools during most of the school year 2015/2016, as a consequence of insecurity, occupation by IDPs or use by armed groups.

To minimize the impact of the crisis and assist families to keep their children enrolled in schools, UNICEF provides school bags, teaching and learning materials and supports the Ministry of Education efforts to restore functionality of affected schools. To accommodate IDP students, UNICEF also provided temporary learning spaces and psychosocial support.

Taking the opportunity provided by the cessation of hostilities, UNICEF team managed to assess education needs in some districts of Taiz and Sa’ada. UNICEF was able to increase its outreach in comparison with the previous month, reaching

16 Al Bayda: 70,000 people, Ibb: 494,104 people (Jiblah, Al Dhihar and Al Mashannah districts), Sa'ada: 64,000 people, Taiz: 500,000 people (Al Qahirah, Al Mudhaffar and At Ta'iziyah districts). 17 Amran: 81 basic hygiene kits distributed to 567 people, Socotra: 1,591 basic hygiene kits distributed to 11,137 people, Shabwah: 500 basic hygiene kits distributed to 3,500 people, Al Jawf: 2,617 basic hygiene kits distributed to 16,632 people. 18 In Hajjah governorate 1,115 monthly consumable hygiene kits distributed to 8,035 people. 19 CTF MR: Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting of grave violations of child rights in armed conflict 20 157,023 children, 43,156 adults. 21 UXO: Unexploded ordnance. 22 ERW: Explosive remnants of war. 23 YEMAC: Yemen Executive Mine Action Center. 24 Sana’a, Amran, Dhamar and Hodeidah. 25 The estimate number of affected children was recently recalculated by UNICEF, based on an average of 350 children per school –according to Ministry of Education data.

+7.4 million children

in need of protection services

560,000 children

remain out of school

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160,779 IDP and other affected children in six governorates with school bags, teaching and learning supplies, school re-habilitation and psychosocial support activities. To improve the physical environment of learning spaces, UNICEF has com-pleted the rehabilitation of 59 schools in five governorates26 providing access to 74,808 out of school children. In addition, 1,694 social workers and teachers were trained on skills to provide psychosocial support for affected children.

In Sa’ada and Taiz governorates, at least 919 schools remain closed due to the security situation. In those most conflict-affected districts, UNICEF supports children right to education through the establishment of temporary learning spaces, community classes, providing education supplies and incentives for community volunteer teachers, in collaboration with the central and local level authorities.

Social Policy During the reporting period, UNICEF reached 4,960 and 4,740 families with the 5th and 6th cycles of cash assistance respectively, in Amanat Al Asimah. Cash transfers of US$ 100 are disbursed on a monthly basis for a period of six months. A press briefing was organized on 23 April to highlight the success of the programme. In addition, two short films are being produced featuring the achieve-ments of the programme.

In Taiz, UNICEF reached 7,443 families with the 3rd cycle of cash assistance. Preparations are currently underway to expand the target in Taiz. Initially, the planned expansion will cover Muhamasheen27 families who were not included in the survey that UNICEF conducted in 2014 in nine districts, and in addition will reach other vulnerable and poor not- Muhamasheen families living in hard-to-access districts in Taiz.

Communication for Development (C4D) During the reporting period, 54,392 individuals were reached and engaged around key life-saving messages and practices through interpersonal means. UNICEF, in partnership with local NGOs and volunteers, has supported community mobili-zation and participation responding to IDP needs in Taiz and Ibb, including tracking of and immunization of child defaulters in all governorates through the April National polio campaign, in addition to promoting exclusive breastfeeding and ap-propriate complementary infant feeding, handwashing with soap, and safe household water storage. Due to security challenges in southern governorates, some activities were suspended during one week, the security situation may con-tinue to hamper the implementation of activities in this region.

Supply and Logistics Since the escalation of the crisis in late March 2015, a total of 4,848 metric tons of emergency supplies have been sent to Yemen via the Djibouti emergency logistics platform. In total, 48 dhows and 15 cargo flights have been chartered to ensure the continuity of the supply pipeline into Yemen. During the reporting period, two dhows have been chartered to deliver emergency supplies to Hodeidah port. Two cargo flights were chartered to carry vaccines to Sana’a: 369,800 vials of pneu-mococcal vaccines (to cover 369,800 children’s), 240,284 vials of DTP Hep B-Hib (to cover 240,284 children) and 40,000 vials of IPV (to cover 400,000 children), were successfully handed over to the Ministry of Health in Sana’a. In addition, 43 Mt of cargo (solar fridges and school kits) are sailing with the logistics cluster ship to Hodeidah. A second shipment of RUTF cartons (sufficient to cover 9,999 children for one month) arrived directly in Aden without passing via Djibouti and using commercial shipping lines. During the reporting period, 10,734 cartons of RUTF (sufficient to cover 10,734 children with malnutrition during one month), 10,010 school bag kits, 5,800 family hygiene kits and 16 tents were distributed to implementing partners within Yemen.

26 Taiz, Hodaidah, Sana’a, Amran, Amanat Al Asimah. 27 Al Muhamasheen, (‘the marginalized’) designates a marginalized demographic group in Yemen, mostly living in slum areas and outskirts of cities, suffering the high-est rates of unemployment and poverty.

8 million people

in need of social protection

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Funding In line with the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), UNICEF’s 2016 appeal is for US$180 million, UNICEF has received US$32,669,082 against the appeal, leaving an 82 per cent funding gap.28 Additionally, US$ 59.7 million have been rolled over pledged against the 2015 appeal.

Sector Requirements Funding Received* Funding Gap

US$ % US$ %

Nutrition 61,500,000 5,504,855 9% 55,995,145 91%

Health 36,000,000 8,958,002 25% 27,041,998 75%

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 48,500,000 7,953,072 16% 40,546,928 84%

Child Protection 14,000,000 5,204,168 37% 8,795,832 63%

Education 14,000,000 578,042 4% 13,421,958 96%

Social Protection in Emergency 6,000,000 4,319,412 72% 1,680,588 28%

Being allocated 151,531 Sub-Total 180,000,000 32,669,082 18% 147,330,918 82%

Carry-forward US$ 59,692,673

Total funding available** US$ 91,797,207

Grand Total 180,000,000 92,361,755 51% 87,638,245 49%

*Funds received do not include pledges. **Total funding available includes total funds received against current appeal plus carry-forward.

Next SitRep: First week of June 2016. UNICEF Yemen Facebook: www.facebook.com/unicefyemen UNICEF Yemen Twitter: @UNICEF_Yemen

Who to contact for further information:

Meritxell Relaño Deputy Representative UNICEF Yemen Sana’a Tel: +967 967 1211400 Email: mrelano@unicef.org

Rajat Madhok Chief of Communications UNICEF Yemen Sana’a Tel: +967 712223001 Email: rmadok@unicef.org

Isabel Suarez Reports Specialist UNICEF Yemen Jordan Tel: +962 796136253 Email: isuarez@unicef.org

28 As of 19 April, 2016.

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SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME RESULTS

2016 PROGRAMME TARGETS AND RESULTS*

Cluster UNICEF

2016 Overall needs

2016 Target

Total 2016 Re-sults

2016 Target

Total 2016 Re-sults

NUTRITION

Number of children under 5 are treated for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)

319,966 178,562 53,275 178,562 53,275

Number of PLWs benefitted from the IYCF counselling 2,076,9142 313,119 71,861 313,119 71,861 Number of children under 5 given micronutrient inter-ventions1

4,298,1632 276,000 3,930,187 4,000,000 3,930,187*

HEALTH

Number of children under 1 vaccinated against mea-sles (MCV1)

953,363

770,000 70,962

Number of children under 5 vaccinated against polio 5,039,936 5,039,936 4,686,395* Number of children under 5 receiving primary health care

2,387,000

815,000 163,910

Number of pregnant and lactating women receiving primary health care

2,076,000

680,000 122,337

WASH

Number of affected population (men, woman, boys and girls) provided with improved water sources and environmental sanitation services by developing, reha-bilitating and maintaining the Public and community infrastructures3

8,391,079 6,384,984 3,804,948 5,186,000 3,778,392*

Number of affected people with access to safe water as per agreed standards (7.5-15L per person per day)

1,750,000 682,332 419,192 100,000 64,149

Number of affected people provided with standard basic hygiene kits

1,750,000 1,382,461 154,889 500,000 124,311

CHILD PROTECTION4

Number of children in conflict-affected areas covered by MRM interventions

2,473,352 1,372,933 554,302 1,372,933 748,104

Number of children in conflict-affected areas receiving psychosocial support

1,821,656 399,594 221,638 279,716 302,757

Number of children and community members receiv-ing knowledge to protect themselves against in-jury/death of mine/UXO explosion

1,927,153 502,158 433,975 351,511 634,154

EDUCATION

Number of affected school-aged children provided with access to education via Temporary Learning Spaces and School Rehabilitation

497,200 244,500 93,749 156,000 80,990

Number of affected children receiving psychosocial support services in schools

1,800,000 575,500 102,672 173,000 94,671

Number of affected children with access to basic learning supplies, books and classroom furniture to be integrated into education system5

2,000,000 522,710 262,221 360,000 251,000*

SOCIAL PROTECTION

Number of vulnerable individuals reached with hu-manitarian Cash transfer in Yemen6

8,000,000

34,285 45,000

C4D Number of affected people reached through inte-grated C4D efforts

2,000,000

1,200,000 403,953

Footnotes: (*)Some programme results appear high as they are part of ongoing efforts initiated in 2015 (i.e. “Number of affected population provided with improved water sources and environmental sanitation services”—an indicator which measures large-scale urban and rural water programmes; “Number of children under 5 vaccinated against polio” were results are mostly attributed to the national vaccination campaigns). Other results are expected to be achieved more gradually. 1. UNICEF’s target for the indicator is 4,000,000 U5 children as Micronutrients interventions that UNICEF is supporting include Vit A supplementation and micronutrients sprinkles supplementation, while Nutrition cluster target did not include the Vit A supplementation and will consider only micronutrients sprinkles supplementation target: 276,000 children under 5. 2. “Number of PLWs benefitted from the IYCF counselling” estimated based on the total number of PLWs (8% of population). “Number of children under 5 given micronutrient interventions”, estimated based on the total number of children from 6 to 59 months old. 3. Cumulative catchment number of people accessing safe drinking water through rehabilitation / repair of the existing urban water supply systems with established operations /maintenance routines, rehabilitation of rural and urban water and sewage systems infrastructure including supply of equipment, spare parts, fuel, chemicals for treatment and other operation and maintenance costs, and the cumulative catchment of number of people benefitting from support to solid waste management services with supply of equipment, spare parts, fuel and other operational costs. 4. Cluster results as of 31 March, April figures are being consolidated and will be available on the next report. UNICEF and CP SC targets are based on access and capacity of partners, which at the time of the exercise (October 2015) were ranked low as reflection of the situation. Next month, UNICEF and the CPSC will perform the mid-year review of the YHRP. 5. Total overall needs under this HPM indicator includes the total overall needs for “Number of affected children receiving psychosocial support services in schools”. Henceforth the overall total needs is 2,497,200. 6. UNICEF target for 2016 is markedly low compared to 2015 since this activity moved from being under the NFI/Shelter Cluster to being under the Protection Cluster. Associated with this change in clusters was a change in the limits of funds that could be appealed, and thus a change in the target. SP section -with the Protection Cluster- will consider the possibility of adjusting the target during the YHRP mid-year review.