Annual Country Report 2022: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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In 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) supported half of the food-insecure Syrians, providing them with food, nutrition, and early recovery assistance. Twelve million people, 55 percent of the total population, still faced acute food insecurity. Among them, 2.5 million people were severely food insecure and fully dependent on humanitarian aid. The number of people facing food insecurity remained alarmingly high, 51 percent higher than in 2019, highlighting the urgent need for sustained humanitarian assistance and an expansion of early recovery efforts to address this crisis. Overall, WFP successfully reached 6 million girls, boys, women, and men across its activities in Syria in 20223 . Internally displaced persons (IDPs) remained the largest beneficiary group given their higher exposure to food insecurity. Their increase in needs was mainly driven by the economic crisis. WFP’s activities recognized the varying needs of the Syrian population. As in previous years, general food assistance was the largest of WFP’s activities in Syria with 5.8 million people reached. In a continued effort to restore and stabilize access to education and nutrition, WFP reached 616,150 children with school meals, leading to more children enrolled in school than the previous year. To prevent acute malnutrition, WFP assisted 434,400 pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) and children with nutrition items. To treat those suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, WFP reached 65,800 PLWG and children, and achieved strong recovery rates. To help people transition from humanitarian assistance to self-sufficiency, WFP implemented a range of projects, mainly by restoring bread supply through supporting each step of the wheat value chain process, from farm to bread. WFP also expanded the use of cash-based transfers (CBT), reaching 477,300 people, and reached 331,100 persons with disabilities across all its activities. Consistent with WFP’s commitment to the achievement of SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), WFP’s achievements in tackling food security in Syria were made possible through strong partnerships, including with national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), United Nations (UN) agencies, donors, the Syrian Government, the private sector, and financial service providers. Additionally, WFP, through the efforts of the WFP-led Logistics and Emergency Telecommunications Clusters, continued to be the key enabler for the Syria humanitarian response across sectors. WFP’s United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) in Syria also enabled humanitarians and diplomatic missions to travel safely between southern and northern Syria. WFP also offered its cash-based transfers (CBT) platform to other UN agencies to reduce delivery costs and provide more comprehensive humanitarian services to beneficiaries. Going forward, in January 2023, WFP will use the results of a Vulnerability Needs Review (VNR) exercise to improve targeting of households based on their vulnerability status.

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