Annual Country Report 2020: Turkey. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2021

Annual Country Report 2020: Turkey. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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38 p.

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In 2020, WFP continued to assist vulnerable refugees inside and outside camps in Turkey, in the ninth year of its response to the Syria crisis. Marked by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 posed great challenges to WFP’s operations in Turkey. However, with resources covering 91 percent of the needs-based plan, WFP continued working on long-term recovery and resilience of vulnerable populations in partnership with the Government of Turkey (GoT). Throughout the implementation of activities, national actors were equipped to lead large-scale response programmes. WFP partnered with the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) under the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and camp programmes. The ESSN supported over 1.7 million beneficiaries since 2016 and was the first large-scale safety net that not only included disabilities in its targeting criteria, but also provided beneficiaries with disabilities a supplementary stipend. Approximately 10,000 individuals benefited from this additional transfer in 2020. The ESSN continued smoothly after WFP handed it over to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in March 2020. The handover process was complemented by a meta-analysis learning exercise, in cooperation with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). WFP, in conjunction with TRC kept supporting around 56,000 camp residents through the e-voucher programme.

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