Document status: current. Last source check: 4 Nov 2026, 12:17 UTC. Extracts below retain the donor’s source wording.
Countries and scope
Lebanon · Syria · Jordan
Allocation round 1 - Lebanon
Source document ↗Allocation round 1 - Syria
Source document ↗Allocation round 1 – Jordan
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Funding priorities
The humanitarian response shall be compliant with the EU’s thematic policies and guidelines that are described in detail in the HIP policy annex. All humanitarian assistance should be risk- informed, gender, disability, and age inclusive, and comply with the minimum environmental requirements.
Response strategy ↗Coordination across EU instruments as well as across humanitarian and development actors and donors will remain essential.
Response strategy ↗DG ECHO supports the localisation agenda. Where possible, actions should commit to increase support to national and local actors as outlined in the DG ECHO guidance note on Promoting Equitable Partnerships with Local Responders.
Response strategy ↗Syria: DG ECHO will continue to primarily focus on responding to life-saving emergency needs and protection concerns of the most vulnerable in the entire country, particularly in under-served areas and in areas where people are most likely to be marginalised. Support will also be provided to meet protracted needs with the objective to reach basic minimum standards and/or to those at risk of life-threatening situations, improving humanitarian outcomes and promoting early recovery. DG ECHO will support life-saving activities responding to shocks and needs identified by primary needs assessments. Beneficiaries will be targeted in accordance with sector prioritisation guidelines.
Response strategy ↗Assistance must be delivered through the most appropriate modalities and entry points, in a timely and principled manner, ensuring the provision of an integrated and flexible life-saving response and a coordinated, multi-sectoral life-sustaining response, according to the needs. Where necessary, DG ECHO will support logistics operations, such as temporary common storage, free-to-user transhipment services, or air transport, with the aim to support and improve the delivery of principled humanitarian aid, including for areas with limited humanitarian access.
Response strategy ↗Wherever possible and appropriate, DG ECHO will also look at supporting resilience-oriented activities in coordination with other EU services, in line with the Sector needs 3.3 of the Humanitarian Response Priorities identified for 2025.
Response strategy ↗Early recovery, as a recognised humanitarian response modality, will be promoted where feasible and relevant, in line with humanitarian principles and IHL, to strengthen sustainability through synergies with other interventions. Funding for early recovery should also be increasingly sought through longer-term funding instruments and donors, notably DG MENA and FPI.
Response strategy ↗Inter-sectoral dialogue should also be promoted to address harmful coping mechanisms and mitigate their risks. In line with the needs identified above, DG ECHO’s strategy will prioritise the following key sectors and activities:
Response strategy ↗Protection: DG ECHO will focus its protection assistance to individuals and groups with heightened protection risks, including Persons with Disabilities (PwD), through a package of specialised protection services such as addressing child protection concerns, GBV and new protection risks. Support to strategic protection monitoring and analysis to inform protection programming while ensuring appropriate referrals to functional protection services are established for individuals in need. Standalone and integrated protection programming will be considered as appropriate and according to evolving context. IHL promotion and evidence-based humanitarian advocacy; support to coordination and
Response strategy ↗protection capacity-building; legal assistance and civil documentation, as well as mine risk education/awareness.
Response strategy ↗Humanitarian Food Assistance, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL): DG ECHO will consider food security interventions within an integrated approach, prioritising emergency food assistance while exploring multi-annual strategies. Early recovery, emergency livelihood initiatives and resilience programmes may also be considered to help beneficiary
Response strategy ↗households regain self-reliance. FSL activities should prioritise the use of cash where feasible and appropriate, in line with DG ECHO policy and duly informed risk management.
Response strategy ↗Health and nutrition: Focus on improving access to and availability of quality essential health, nutrition services and timely assistance, including basic and comprehensive primary health care services with integrated management and treatment of malnutrition, trauma and post-operative care, physical rehabilitation, life-saving obstetric and reproductive health, MH/PSS, as well as disease prevention and outbreak response. Multi-annual intervention strategies could be considered to support the provision of essential services and to facilitate specialised procurements. Light rehabilitation of health facilities and capacity training of medical staff could also be envisaged as appropriate.
Response strategy ↗Proper management of medical waste should be ensured.
Response strategy ↗WASH: DG ECHO support will encompass duly justified emergency rehabilitation, extension, repair, operation and maintenance of existing water supply and wastewater treatment services and infrastructure, particularly where no alternative water sources are available. An early recovery approach could be envisaged, including the phaseout of emergency water trucking, which should remain a last-resort option. Sewage and solid waste management interventions should move beyond basic collection and disposal. Multi- annual intervention strategies may be considered in this sector.
Response strategy ↗Shelter & Settlements, NFIs and Camp/Site Coordination Camp Management (CCCM):Emergency interventions could be supported, alongside transitional solutions where duly justified, in line with Shelter/NFI sector guidelines. Replacement of emergency shelters and cost-efficient, repairs of individual dwellings aiming at accommodating the most vulnerable may be considered in line with Cluster guidelines. Provision of critical NFIs, timely winterisation assistance and CCCM interventions (where added value is clearly demonstrated) will be considered. HLP considerations must be factored in wherever relevant.
Response strategy ↗Education in Emergencies: DG ECHO will continue to support non-formal education for out-of-school children and those at risk of dropping out, to provide the most relevant pathways to enter, re-enter and stay in formal education. Multi-annual strategic interventions will be considered. Light repair of school facilities, capacity of educational staff, the rehabilitation of basic WASH services as well as provision of hygiene supplies may be considered to ensure access to services. Child protection activities should form an integral part of all relevant projects.
Response strategy ↗Emergency response and disaster preparedness mainstreaming: DG ECHO aims at providing a localised, timely, flexible, targeted, and multi-sectoral response to urgent and emerging needs in the aftermath of a rapid onset crisis. The use of Crisis Modifiers is encouraged. Essential elements include contingency planning, prepositioning of stocks, well-defined decision processes and triggers for engagement and disengagement. Innovative access and contingency strategies that prioritise continuity and complementarity of services remain central to DG ECHO’s operational approach.
Response strategy ↗Lebanon: DG ECHO will continue to provide life-saving support to the most vulnerable in Lebanon, prioritising Syrian refugees and vulnerable Lebanese, with a focus on needs-based, integrated assistance and enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the humanitarian response.
Response strategy ↗Basic Assistance: Addressing the needs, including food insecurity, of refugees living below survival thresholds. Extremely vulnerable refugees will be targeted with the intention to provide services in line with needs (“cash plus”). In addition, addressing new emerging shocks through Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance and Sectoral Cash might be considered.
Response strategy ↗Protection: Interventions addressing heightened protection violations, including gender- based violence, child protection violations, evictions, and other risks, will be prioritised. Support to refugee registration and access to civil documentation will be considered.
Response strategy ↗Emergency response / disaster preparedness: reinforcing coordination in emergency preparedness; build humanitarian surveillance and response capacity; strengthen contingency planning, including through meaningful Crisis Modifiers for medium-scale emergencies.
Response strategy ↗Education in Emergencies: Access to inclusive quality education targeting vulnerable out- of-school children, in line with relevant regulatory frameworks, with a focus on non-formal education, and with clear learning outcomes and pathways to the formal education sector. Integration of child protection is strongly recommended.
Response strategy ↗Health: Support may include emergency health interventions, life- and limb-saving hospitalisation, ambulatory care, access to specialised secondary health services, critical mental health and psychosocial support, and protection-linked life-saving sexual and reproductive health services, while avoiding overlap with other EU actions, particularly DG MENA’s support to primary health care.
Response strategy ↗Shelter: DG ECHO will support interventions aiming at improving the living conditions and enhance protection, prioritising the most vulnerable. Potential interventions might include emergency shelter, and minor and moderate repairs, set up and repair of collective shelters and provision of core relief items, with partners encouraged to adopt integrated approaches and use Crisis Modifiers.
Response strategy ↗Coordination and Advocacy: Support will focus on common services/enablers such as coordination, access/security, and assessments to identify critical structural and programmatic gaps in the response, enhancing evidence-based analysis for programming and advocacy with a strong emphasis on preserving the protection space in Lebanon.
Response strategy ↗Jordan: DG ECHO will continue life-saving humanitarian assistance to refugees in Jordan, focusing on the most impacted priority sectors and the response to newly arising crises (e.g. population movements, new shocks). DG ECHO will continue promoting a principled response and advocating for accountable and needs-based humanitarian action to maintain service- delivery to vulnerable groups at high protection risks, both in and out of camps.
Response strategy ↗Health: Support will focus on critical primary and secondary healthcare interventions including maternal-child and reproductive health, inclusive of medical assistance to SGBV survivors, and with a priority to services within camps with strong referral mechanisms to public facilities. Outside camps, conditional cash-for-health for very specific caseloads under a sound rationale for intervention might be considered.
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Partner eligibility
Only DG ECHO partners are eligible to submit a project for funding.46
Eligibility criteria ↗No award will be made to NGO partner organisations which have not complied with their obligations concerning the submission of audited financial statements (i.e., which would not have submitted those in due time to the Commission without a proper justification) or which would appear not to offer sufficient guarantee as to their financial capacity to implement the proposed actions (in light of their liquidity and solvency ratios as appearing from their latest available annual statutory accounts certified by an approved external auditor).
Eligibility criteria ↗All awards made using EU Funds must respect the Conditionality Measures47 issued under any Council Implementing Decision adopted in accordance with Article 6 of EU Regulation 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget48 (“Conditionality Decision”).
Eligibility criteria ↗The Commission hereby notifies applicants under this HIP/TA of the following Conditionality Decision (valid at the date of publication of this HIP/TA):
Eligibility criteria ↗Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 of 15 December 2022 on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary49.
Eligibility criteria ↗This Conditionality Decision, in particular its Article 2.2, prohibits legal commitments under direct and indirect management with any public interest trust established by Hungarian Act IX of 2021 50 , including those entities listed in Annex I to Hungarian Act IX of 202151 and other affiliated entities maintained by them (“Concerned Entities”). The Commission will further notify when the above- mentioned Conditionality Measures are lifted.
Eligibility criteria ↗47 Conditionality Measures against a Concerned Entity, may, for example, include, amongst others, the requirement to: suspend payments or the implementation of the legal commitment to/with the Concerned Entity; and/or terminate the legal commitment with the Concerned Entity; and/or prohibit entering into new legal commitments with the Concerned Entity. Conditionality Decisions and Measures issued under Council Implementing Decisions may impact the implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions
Eligibility criteria ↗and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management. implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management.
Eligibility criteria ↗48 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget OJ L 433I , 22.12.2020, p. 1–10
Eligibility criteria ↗50 Act IX of 2021 on public interest trust foundations with a public service mission (entry into force 01/01/2023).
Eligibility criteria ↗51 Available (in Hungarian) at:[https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00](https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00)
Eligibility criteria ↗
Apply the round-specific restrictions below together with the complete partner and award conditions.
Allocation rounds and submission dates
Allocation round 2 - Syria
Indicative submission information
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: N/A - Proposals already received as part of allocation round 1.
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners7: All DG ECHO Partners
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Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: N/A - Proposals already received as part of allocation round 1.
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 1 - Syria
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: by 19/01/2026
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners12: All DG ECHO Partners
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 2 – Jordan
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: by 12/02/2026 together withallocation round 1 for Jordan20
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners18: All DG ECHO Partners
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 1 – Jordan
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: by 12/02/2026
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners24: All DG ECHO Partners
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 4 – Lebanon
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: 14 October 2026
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Pre-selected partners: UNHCR-WFP, UNFPA and UNICEF due to their respective internationally recognised mandates, their demonstrated capacity for timely response and their coordination role in the identified priority sectors; DRC based on its comparative advantage, expertise, presence and capacity to rapidly provide assistance in emergency response. No other application will be received.
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 3 – Lebanon
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: 29 May 2026
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Pre-selected partners: UNOCHA, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNWFP and ICRC due to their respective internationally recognised mandates, their demonstrated capacity for timely response and their coordination role in the identified priority sectors; German Red Cross based on its comparative advantage, expertise, presence and capacity to rapidly provide assistance in emergency response. No other application will be received.
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 2 - Lebanon
Indicative submission information
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: N/A - Proposals already received as part of allocation round 1.
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners38: All DG ECHO Partners
Read the source wording
Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: N/A - Proposals already received as part of allocation round 1.
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Allocation round 1 - Lebanon
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: by 12/01/2026
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners43: All DG ECHO Partners
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Official documents and versions
- HIP version 4 ↗ Version 4 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 12:17 UTC
- Technical annex version 4 ↗ Version 4 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 12:17 UTC