HIGHLIGHTS

• Early Recovery is gaining momentum as drinking, wastewater, debris and pollution management remain top priorities to mitigate further humanitarian impacts.
  Humanitarian partners continue water trucking and have started reconstruction of a water pipeline in Derna.

• Schools in Derna reopened on 29 October for formal education.

• The number of collective sites to host internally displaced persons (IDP) further reduced to 12 sites in Derna, Albayda and Benghazi, hosting 1,143 people.

• Humanitarian partners have reached 164,000 people with assistance. Food distributions continue, with more than 56,000 people reached. Humanitarian partners further refine their distribution plans to meet specific needs. This includes winterization and covering vulnerable groups, such as refugees, migrants, women and people with disabilities.