Syria Crisis - Support to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent - IFRC 2014

February 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates that more than 130 000 people have been killed with hundreds of thousands more wounded due to the violence. Within Syria some 9.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance 6.5 million of whom are internally displaced. In addition over 2.4 million Syrian refugees are registered and living in host countries in the region. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of the conflict and host countries are increasingly overstretched by the influx of affected people needing assistance. With the support of DFATD and other donors the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is supporting the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to reach up to 2.6 million conflict-affected Syrians with food assistance emergency relief items and emergency health assistance.

The expected immediate outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to food assistance; increased access to emergency relief items; and (2) increased access to emergency health assistance. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.