Venezuela
2024-04 Factsheet - Venezuela
April 2024
Fundación Vivienda Popular, 2022
Highlights
- The Energy Week 2024 took place at the beginning of April at the Faculty of Architecture of the Central University of Venezuela. The week started with workshops for humanitarian actors that addressed the fundamentals of solar energy and photovoltaic systems. The week ended with a forum where ideas were shared and strategies were debated to address the country’s energy needs from the public, private, and humanitarian sectors.
- The Gender Equality Network, with the support of the Cluster and GenCap, held a workshop on “Gender Integration in Temporary Shelters”. This workshop aimed to strengthen the knowledge of partners to promote the integration of the intersectional gender approach in temporary shelters, in order to ensure an effective and differentiated response and protection for all people considering their gender, age, and diversity.
- With the support of NorCap and the Global Shelter Cluster through an Energy Officer assigned to Venezuela, an Energy Task Force was created. The objective of the task force is to create technical guidelines to align the energy response with national and international standards.
- During the monthly meeting with partners, the new coordination team at national level was introduced to the organizations. This was an introductory session on basic concepts related to humanitarian principles, the cluster approach, and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle.
Need analysis
- In Zulia state, there have been reports of people returning to their communities of origin. Some families have found that their homes no longer meet living conditions (lacking roofs, walls, windows and adequate basic NFIs). Such conditions significantly increase vulnerability and protection risks for returnees, as well as their ability to successfully reintegrate into their communities.
Response
- By the end of April 2024, the partners' interventions reached 42,362 people (51% corresponded to women, 17% to indigenous people, and 2% to people with disabilities). The response covered 11 states, being Apure, Barinas, Zulia and Táchira the ones with the highest number of people reached.
- Regarding Shelter response, 3 construction and rehabilitation were carried out in community spaces/centers and temporary shelters in Apure, Táchira and Zulia. In addition, 7 RHU were installed to strengthen the authorities' response to disasters and temporary shelters for people in mobility in Tachira state. Also, 2616 people occupied temporary shelters in Táchira, Apure, Zulia, Falcón, Miranda and Sucre.
- As for Energy response, 22 energy systems were installed in Táchira, Apure, Barinas, Delta Amacuro and Táchira to generate electricity in institutional spaces for authorities, communities and temporary shelters. 168 street solar lamps were installed in communities, health centers, education centers and temporary shelters in Zulia and Falcón.
- 994 people received basic NFIs. 50 habitat kits and more than 1700 NFIs were delivered for vulnerable people, 60% women and 3% people with disabilities in Bolívar, Apure, Miranda, Falcón and La Guaira.
Gaps / challenges
- There are two projects within the HRP (unfunded) that seek to address the shelter needs of people returning to their communities of origin. It is a priority for the sector to focus efforts on housing rehabilitation and improvement for returnees, in order to ensure a safe and dignified environment for families returning to their homes.
- There have been reports of road closures in Zulia state by indigenous communities. Partner organizations with projects in this area have had to suspend field missions, which has affected the implementation of shelter activities. Other partners have taken alternate routes, resulting in delays of more than 8 hours to reach some communities.
