Syria Crisis - Food Assistance - Humanitarian Response 2015

March 2015 - The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate as a result of the civil war and intensified violence in the country. The United Nations estimates that 12.2 million people inside Syria including 5.6 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance. Combined with 3.8 million Syrians seeking refuge from the conflict in neighbouring countries this is the largest number of people displaced from conflict in the world. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of the conflict and host countries are increasingly overstretched by the influx of people fleeing the conflict. With DFATD's support this project is providing food assistance to conflict-affected people in Syria. Project activities include: providing supplementary food assistance to up to 11 316 food insecure conflict-affected households in Syria per month during the life of this project.

The expected outcome for this project is increased access to food assistance for crisis-affected populations. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.