Annual Country Report 2020: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Annual Country Report 2020: Syrian Arab Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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74 p.

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2020 was a dramatic year for WFP in Syria, where the food security situation deteriorated to levels not previously seen through more than nine years of devastating crisis. While donor support remained strong, contributions were significantly outpaced by the rapidly growing needs. As a result, while WFP had expanded its provision of Unconditional Resource Transfers (general food assistance, GFA) significantly since late 2019, the resources received in 2020 were insufficient to operationalize the further scale-up envisaged to respond to the increased needs. Overall, WFP successfully reached 5.7 million girls and boys, women and men across its activities in Syria in 2020. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) remained the largest beneficiary group, and women and girls represented the majority of those assisted by WFP. WFP diversified its activities aimed at strengthening livelihoods, boosting household resilience and restoring food systems through a stronger focus on community-level interventions. WFP also expanded the use of cash-based transfers (CBT), doubling the number of contracted retailers and increasing the number of CBT beneficiaries by 16 percent from 2019. While COVID-19 presented significant operational challenges, WFP developed programmatic mitigation guidelines and standard operating procedures that allowed most activities to continue uninterrupted.

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