Annual Country Report 2021: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Annual Country Report 2021: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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In 2021, fewer people had sufficient access to nutritious food in Syria than at any other point during the last ten years of crisis. Rapidly growing needs outpaced contributions despite strong donor support. By the second half of 2021, WFP began steadily expanding its general food assistance (GFA), reaching more than 1 million additional people with food rations, increasing from 4.7 million people to 5.8 million people reached monthly on average. Regrettably, the resources received in 2021 were insufficient to reach the full monthly target of 7.75 million GFA beneficiaries, nor were they sufficient to maintain the size of the food basket provided to beneficiaries, and so families received smaller rations. Overall, WFP successfully reached 7 million girls, boys, women and men across its activities in Syria in 2021. Women and girls represented the majority of those assisted by WFP. In a continued effort to restore and stabilize access to education, WFP reached 693,100 children with school meals. WFP also expanded the use of cash-based transfers (CBT), reaching 294,000 people. In parallel, WFP diversified activities aimed at strengthening livelihoods, boosting household resilience and restoring food systems through a stronger focus on community-level interventions, such as the rehabilitation of agricultural water systems and support to the bread value chain. WFP also reached nearly 417,800 people with disabilities across all its activities. For example, in 2021, WFP included an Aleppine school for children with disabilities to its monthly school meals programme.

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