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The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors. Since January, the World Food Programme has increased its coverage from 1.5 million to 2.4 million people. Nearly 3 million people have received critical medical supplies; more than a million children have been vaccinated; 360,000 women have been provided with reproductive health kits and around 70,000 women have received emergency obstetric care. Thanks to UNICEF’s support, more than 10.4 million people now have access to clean drinking water. Since the end of January, joint inter-agency convoys have delivered assistance to more than a million people in hard-to-reach areas, mainly those controlled by opposition groups or where active conflict is taking place. We have established fully functioning humanitarian hubs in Homs and Tartous. Agencies are continuing to work with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and local NGOs to reach more people in need every day. We are working to address the bureaucratic constraints on access and talking to groups on the ground on a daily basis to improve our ability to reach those in need. But the needs continue to grow more quickly than we can meet them. We know that we cannot help everyone who needs it but as the months pass, the crisis threatens new groups of people. Syria’s farmers are now in a precarious situation and will need help during the planting season to avoid a further rise in food insecurity – something our colleagues at FAO have prioritised. We need to start pre-positioning supplies of warm clothes, blankets and heaters in preparation for next autumn and winter. Right now, we must increase supplies of safe drinking water and provision of sanitation. We need better early warning systems to prevent outbreaks of disease from turning into epidemics, and we need more bed nets and medical supplies. That is why UN agencies and our partners have come together to launch this revised appeal. For the SHARP, which covers assistance inside Syria, we need a further $1 billion for this year to add to the $400 million which has already been received. That brings the appeal for help inside Syria to $1.4 billion for the year. The SHARP includes 22 agencies and humanitarian partners – up from 11 at the beginning of the year. The number of projects has increased from 61 to around 100. All the projects, and the appeal as a whole, are based on sound needs assessments, primary and secondary evidence. The core of the appeal, accounting for 85 per cent of funding requirements, is made up of life-saving programmes to increase access to food, shelter, water, sanitation and health. We must scale up food distribution to reach 4 million people–and we can do this within the constraints I have outlined; shelter assistance for 3.6 million; safe drinking water for 10 million and provide safe learning spaces for 1.2 million children. The UNRWA Relief and Works Agency must increase its emergency aid to Palestine refugees and sustain its basic health and education services. Security constraints have had a huge impact on delivery of assistance. We are currently targeting the areas most in need, but only those we know we can access. We will prioritize getting supplies to Aleppo, Rural Damascus, Homs, Dera’a, Idlib and Deir ez Zor. We currently cannot reach the most affected parts of Ar Raqqa, so they are not included in the SHARP. This was not an easy decision, but it was one we had to make