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The conflict has now continued for five years at an enormous human cost. Over half of Syria’s population is displaced, some 13.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 6 million children, and 8.7 million people cannot meet their basic food needs, with 70 percent lacking access to safe drinking water.

The magnitude and complexity of the evolving Syrian crisis and the necessity to plan beyond existing emergency planning cycles has prompted WFP to look at reshaping its programmes inside Syria and the five neighbouring countries by deploying new, innovative and collaborative approaches to meet urgent needs that can achieve more sustainable results. Informed by the Sustainable Development Goal 2 to ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’ and based on evidence and consultations with external partners, WFP has crafted a “Syria+5 Vision 2020” and a proposed course of action to shift and prepare for the longer term.

In line with WFP’s global Strategic Plan, which highlights the importance of People, Presence, Partnership and Performance, WFP is committed to fulfilling four Objectives by 2020:

Vision Objective 1 (VO1): Maintain life-saving food and nutrition interventions for the most vulnerable people. Our activities will include building up our cash-based programmes,

enabling them to evolve over time and merge into social safety net systems. As such, these interventions would gradually reduce in scale as our other vision objectives expand.

Vision Objective 2 (VO2): Invest in people by harnessing the knowledge, talents and skills of displaced Syrians and host communities. In our activities we will support programmes that create access to informal and formal education for children; transfer skills between displaced populations and host communities; and provide vocational training for youth.

Vision Objective 3 (VO3): Restore livelihoods and create economic opportunities inside Syria and in host countries. In our activities, we will target urban and rural livelihoods including micro-credit finance to support the start-up of new businesses and agricultural production inside and outside the camps. We will also support food processing and other production and service provision opportunities.

Vision Objective 4 (VO4): Build national capacities in neighbouring countries and, as far as possible inside Syria in order to transfer our operations to national and local institutions and partners.

A number of start-up projects will commence in 2016 and will be key in setting the programmatic shift over the next five years.

Preface

2 | Syria+5: Laying the Foundation for Syria’s Future

The protracted nature of the crisis, coupled with reducing levels of assistance, profoundly affects all aspects of life and human dignity. This includes food security, child health, education, employment, livelihood opportunities and the ability to recover.

The humanitarian community must ensure that assistance covering immediate needs lays the foundation for long-term recovery. We believe now is the time to re-appraise how humanitarian

actors work to ensure maximum short and longer-term impact for the greatest number of people affected by the conflict, both inside and outside Syria.

In the context of global limited resources compared to needs, WFP is reshaping its programmes in the best interests of the people of Syria. Working in partnership, our fundamental premise is to ‘build on what we do well’.

Why now?


Building towards....

Aligning with....


VO1 Food and nutrition assistance for the most vulnerable

2020 VISION OBJECTIVES

Today Tomorrow

VO1 reduces as

VO2, VO3 and VO4 increase

VO3 Livelihoods

VO4 B

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Capacity

VO2 Education


2020 Vision Objectives

Maintain life-saving food and nutrition interventions for the most vulnerable people.

Our activities will include building our cash-based programmes which can, over time, evolve and merge into social safety net systems. As such, these interventions would gradually reduce in scale as our other vision objectives expand.

VO1


Invest in people by harnessing the knowledge, talents and skills of displaced Syrians and host communities.

Our activities will support programmes that create access to informal and formal education for children, transfer skills between displaced populations and host communities, and provide market - demanding vocational training for youth.

VO2

SDG 2SDG 16

GrowSchool attendance

Retail sector apprenticeships

work placement programmes

Market - demanding vocational training


Restore livelihoods and create economic opportunities inside Syria and in host countries.

In our activities, we will target urban and rural livelihoods through micro-credit finance to support new businesses and agricultural production inside and outside the camps. We will also support food processing and other production and service provision opportunities.

VO3

Grow

Jobs for women

Food supply chain business development

Community assist instructor rehabilitation and development

Agricultural production inside and outside camps

Access to micro - capital

SDG 16


Build national capacities in neighbouring countriesand, as conditions allow, in Syria and transfer our operations to national and local institutions and partners.

VO4

Developing the retail sector

Social safety mechanisms

Support to national actors

SDG 16

US$1.28 BILLIoN INJECTEd INTo LoCaL ECoNomIES


WFP believes it must hold itself to the highest standard of accountability,

enabling us to focus on creating maximum impact.

How?

BUILdING oN wHaT wE do wELL

Supply chain engagement for greater efficiency in the retail sector

Operational coverage of affected populations

Access to big data - knowledge & data management

Operational agility

THE HIGHEST STaNdardoF aCCoUNTaBILITy

The Litmus Test Our programmes will have to pass a litmus test prior to implementation


The Litmus Test


Next steps

Regional vision will translate into a regional PRRO and a single - country PRRO in Syria by January 2017


Supporting the development and increased function of government safety net systems across the region, as opposed to fragmented projects, can enhance coverage, performance and readiness to respond to shocks – even before crises hit. Benefits of a systemic approach to safety nets could lead to protection of development gains, access to increased beneficiary information needed to support the transition to resilience and livelihood programming, enhanced process effectiveness and efficiency (including common targeting mechanisms and digital beneficiary management), and better integration of different social protection components. WFP will support government partners in making social safety nets more shock responsive as well as nutrition/food-secure sensitive as part of the SDG 2 and SDG 17 objectives.

The proposal provides for four main outcomes:

Outcome 1: Improved efficiency and quality of assistance transfers: modalities, benefit levels, timing, frequency and duration.

Outcome 2: Transparent targeting mechanisms and beneficiary data registry systems aimed at including the most vulnerable and better identifying beneficiaries for more conditional, livelihood-based programming.

Outcome 3: Flexible and scalable transfer systems to address the scope of requirements in varying contexts from crisis response to improved livelihoods.

Outcome 4: System design and application to support efficient transfer deliveries, in particular in emergency responses, and create a platform for potential multiple programmes and benefits to reach beneficiaries (both unconditional and productive safety nets).

The ability of WFP to conduct vulnerability analysis and deliver emergency assistance (relying on private sector – financial service providers whenever possible), and its ability to transition from one operational modality to another, or use a combination of both, is a key comparative advantage to support national stakeholders in their efforts to develop shock-responsive safety nets systems.

For WFP, humanitarian partners, and host governments, existing social safety nets have proven to be a good basis and capable of adapting to scale following an adverse event. WFP is drawing on its adaptive safety net experience in Palestine (relying on the Ministry of Social Affairs Safety Net to support Vulnerable Populations during active combat peaks), the Philippines (relying on the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program “4P” in 2013 after Typhoon Haiyan), Ethiopia (relying on the Productive Safety Net Programme “PSPN” to respond to recurrent droughts), and Pakistan (relying on the Floods Emergency Cash Transfer Programme in 2012) to name a few. Operational coordination will rely on regional governments to enhance the use of their national safety nets in emergency

VO1 Food and Nutrition Assistance for the Most Vulnerable

Enhancing the use and functionof national safety nets

“All my hopes today are to go back to my country. I want my life back in Syria.” - Nasser


responses. Relying also on current joint safety net programmes in Lebanon (where the Government of Lebanon and WFP already reach 25,000 beneficiaries on monthly basis), WFP and government partners will further assess the performance of their existing country social safety nets in terms of coverage, spending and impacts on reducing poverty and food insecurity, and review their reliability to be used in response to emergencies.

The joint analysis will lead to a set of practical measures to strengthen the evidence-based decision making process towards the modality of assistance to beneficiaries and lead to more efficient and effective transfer modalities.

Particular focus will be on reinforcing the development of specific approaches related to:

• Examining the operational scope and relevance of existing safety nets;• Capacity to absorb additional caseloads, especially during emergencies;• Sufficient preparedness, administrative architecture / systemic structure /infrastructures in place at all levels of the government to properly target and identify beneficiaries;• Complementarity and integration of tools and guidance developed with other existing safety net programmes systems to link with longer-term social development and economic opportunity programmes in country.


The majority of Syrians, inside Syria and displaced in neighbouring countries, currently spend between 40 to 50 percent of their income on food expenditures with some of the most vulnerable reporting food expenditures of up to 70 percent of their income. Food markets, especially inside Syria, have been seriously fragmented resulting in three acute problems: accessibility, affordability and food quality. Even in countries with large Syrian refugee populations (Lebanon and Jordan), there are significant supply chain issues that result in either much higher prices (and hence lower food consumption) or lack of availability. WFP’s retail strategy will contribute to increasing access to 10 to 30 percent more food for a million people who are completely dependent on in-kind food being delivered, a reanimation of the retail sector.

Outcome: Leveraging WFP’s expertise in supply chains and interaction with the retail sector to significantly increase affordability, accessibility, traceability, and food quality and safety in Syria and neighbouring countries.

Output 1: Lower prices at the shelf (target 10 percent), for all customers of WFP-contracted shops (beneficiaries and other customers alike).

Output 2: itemized sales data with corresponding offering: 1) supply chain to support price reductions; 2) programmatic for refocused monitoring, assessing nutritional impact and targeting; and 3) traceability to donors, host governments and other humanitarian actors alike.

Output 3: development of the retail sector including backward linkages to local economies.

WFP will follow a two-pronged approach in its engagement with local retail sectors:

• WFP currently brings in around 400,000 tons of a variety of food items (cereals, pulses, oils, nutritious foods, etc.) valued at approximately US$250 million each year. However, within the

areas that WFP serves, about 35 percent are considered “relatively stable” and another 30 percent or so may allow for some intervention in the retail sector. A clear review within WFP’s USD150 to 200 million purchasing power in 65 percent of these areas, could allow to “catalyze” retail markets, making items more affordable not only for WFP direct beneficiaries, but for all those accessing the retail sector. If a Syrian with income of USD100/capita spends USD60 on food, there is an initial need for subsidies through the supply chain and retail sector to match retail prices with those of WFP’s wholesale prices in similar locations. This allows WFP to serve the same number of beneficiaries with limited budget.

• Within those areas, a move towards “processed foods” that can add local value, reanimate the industrial sector, and provide employment, could begin. With easier to process items and move on to more complex ones. Given the high level of human resources in Syria, such a transition from basic to advanced processing should be smooth if there are clear market signals, some capital investment, and a clear link to retail consumption markets.

• There is a possibility to go beyond that catalytic demand of WFP beneficiary areas, to do similar reanimation of the retail sector in areas where there is some “relative stability”, once the methodologies, successes, and challenges. From WFP areas are well documented.

• The above, will revive the local retail sector where 90 percent of the population probably gets 90 percent of their food, and more importantly, will create significant local economy multiplier effects 1.5 to 2.0 times the dollar value of WFP vouchers going towards the retail sector; creating significant additional jobs, lowering prices, and increasing availability of nutritious foods.

In places like Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, with significant numbers of refugees and somewhat


Syria+5 retail strategy roll out


inefficient supply chains, the retail strategy will:

• Look at increasing affordability for refugees, by getting discounts of up to 10 percent or more on their voucher/cash value. In certain isolated areas where there are significant numbers of vulnerable refugees, purchasing power can be increased by up to 20 percent.

• In addition to food imports into Syria, leverage WFP purchasing power through vouchers, to create links to local foods, such as fruit, vegetables, and eggs, in addition to basic processed foods. However, in these cases, they should also target products that are normally imported or processed outside these host countries, so there will be a long-term demand for capital investment like processing facilities, staff, finance, and warehouse/transport from

host populations, once refugees are back in Syria.

The expenditures in 2016 will be primarily for joint feasibility studies with industrial actors, retail sector, and experts combined with that of actual pilot studies of 1 million beneficiaries inside Syria and 1 million outside Syria. Expenditures inside Syria for this strategy would be approximately USD15 million, and outside would be approximately USD5 million. The bulk of the financing should come from the private sector either from their own capital or access to risk financing from IFIs. If 2 million people benefit from another USD5 in their purchasing power per month, this puts USD120 million of additional purchasing directly in the pockets of vulnerable Syrians with a likely USD60-120 million of “local economy multiplier effects”.


Enhancing the use of national safety nets in emergency responses in Lebanon and Jordan

Supporting the development of well-functioning government safety net systems in Lebanon and in Jordan, as opposed to fragmented projects, can enhance coverage, performance and readiness to respond to shocks – even before crises hit. Benefits of a systemic approach to safety nets could lead to protection of development gains, reduced disaster risk and need for emergency response, enhanced process effectiveness and efficiency (including common targeting mechanisms and digital beneficiary management), and better integration of different social protection components.

WFP will support government partners in making social safety nets more shock responsive as well as nutrition/food-secure sensitive as part of the SDG 2 objective.

The proposal provides for four main outcomes:

Outcome 1: Appropriateness of transfers: modalities, benefit levels, timing, frequency and duration.

Outcome 2: Transparent targeting mechanisms and beneficiary data registry systems aimed at including the most vulnerable.

Outcome 3: Flexible and scalable transfer systems to address the scope of requirements in varying contexts from crisis response to improved livelihoods.

Outcome 4: System design and application to support efficient transfer deliveries, in particular in emergency responses, and create a platform


for potential multiple programmes and benefits to reach beneficiaries (both unconditional and productive safety nets).

The ability of WFP to conduct vulnerability analysis and deliver emergency assistance (relying on private sector – financial service providers whenever possible), and its ability to transition from one operational modality to another, or use a combination of both, is a key comparative advantage to support national stakeholders in their efforts to develop shock responsive safety nets systems.

For WFP, humanitarian partners, and host governments, existing social safety nets have proven to be a good basis and capable of adapting to scale following an adverse event. WFP is drawing on its adaptive safety net experience in the Philippines (through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program “4P” in 2013 after Typhoon Haiyan), Ethiopia (through the Productive Safety Net Programme “PSPN” to respond to recurrent droughts), Pakistan (through the Floods Emergency Cash Transfer Programme in 2012) and Palestine (through the Ministry of Social Affairs Safety Net to support Vulnerable Populations during active combat peaks) to name a few.

Operational coordination will rely on the Governments of Lebanon and Jordan to enhance the use of their national safety nets in emergency responses. Relying also on current joint safety net programmes in Lebanon (where

the Government of Lebanon and WFP already reach 25,000 beneficiaries on a monthly basis), WFP and Government partners (in Lebanon and Jordan) will further assess the performance of their existing country social safety nets in terms of coverage, spending and impacts on reducing poverty and food insecurity, and review their reliability to be used in response to emergencies.

The joint analysis will lead to a set of practical measures to strengthen the evidence-based decision-making process towards the modality of assistance to beneficiaries and lead to more efficient and effective transfer modalities. Particular focus will be on reinforcing the development of specific approaches related to:

• Examining the operational scope and relevance of existing safety nets;

• Capacity to absorb additional caseloads, especially during emergencies;

• Sufficient preparedness, administrative architecture / systemic structure / infrastructures in place at all levels of the government to properly target and identify beneficiaries;

• Complementarity and integration of tools and guidance developed with other existing safety net programmes systems to link with longer-term social development and economic opportunity programmes in country.


There are over 5.5 million children affected by the crisis inside Syria and over 2 million outside. Without investment in education, this is a lost generation.

Movements of population are putting pressure on resources of countries receiving refugees and it is becoming increasingly important for WFP to provide a dual support, one in the short term and one in the long term. Whilst the humanitarian response emphasizes the provision of school meals or snacks to refugees and vulnerable children attending schools, the long-term response will entail supporting systems that will allow governments to deliver cost efficient services to their children. Strong national systems will reinforce the humanitarian community to deliver and meet urgent needs.

These two roles are mutually reinforcing for better education and food security of all children. In Lebanon there are two school shifts – a morning shift and an afternoon shift now typically available to refugee children. WFP will work

with the Government to issue refugee and/or vulnerable Lebanese families with e-cards. As children attend school they earn ‘points’ accrued on their cards. Points will be redeemable for goods and services at locally contracted retail shops. Commensurate with points earned by the collective number of students at each school, WFP will further work with partners and governments to strengthen the curriculum and facilities of the schools themselves, with special attention to nutrition and vocational training, etc. This system incentivizes vulnerable families to send their kids to school, incentivizes schools to provide enhanced services, and links relief assistance to the longer-term skills development essential to longer-term recovery from the potentially lifelong impacts of displacement and war. The use of e-card systems also lays a basis for national school-based d social assistance systems and digital social assistance beneficiary management systems even without specific refugee orientation, as well as for eventual enhanced digitization of education data necessary to be captured by schools.

VO2 Education

“Points for the Future” education initiative

“I hope my children live a luckier life than me and that they return to Syria and are educated there.” - Inas


VO2 Education

Grow

Location: 2016: Jordan in-camps (healthy kitchen pilot), 2017-2018 Jordan in/outside camps, potentially (GROW)

Vision 2020 will move WFP’s traditional school meals programmes forward under its “GROW” initiative to provide innovative and expanded nutrition support for children, sustainable livelihood opportunities for families, in particular mothers, while further reinforcing education incentives to increase enrollment and attendance.

Building off WFP’s successful “Healthy Kitchens” pilot project in Jordan’s refugee camps, WFP, in coordination with UNICEF, UNDP, and otherswill link complete, nutritious, locally produced school meals to increased livelihood opportunities along the entire food supply chain from farm to table. Working backwards through the food supply chain, WFP will engage and support women’s agricultural processing cooperatives, purchasing a percentage of output for use as ingredients for school kitchens, while better connecting them to the market through training and information. WFP-supported projects helping to rehabilitate transportation networks inside Syria, and increase transportation efficiency in the region by providing better access to consumer purchasing habits will lower wholesale costs and help create livelihood opportunity. A focus on providing farmers with key agricultural inputs, training in post-harvest handling, and access to near real time market information will help increase production, reduce losses, and expand access to local and regional markets needed for

increased livelihood opportunity. In addition to sustainable livelihood opportunities created within the food supply chain, livelihood opportunities will be created inside schools through engaging with women’s micro enterprise cooperatives in school meal preparation and serving, as well as the selling of à la carte items to further expand student food choice, dietary diversity, and incentivize attendance.

Under GROW, existing WFP voucher programmes will be enhanced to further support education outcomes by providing monthly voucher top-ups for families whose children meet minimum school attendance requirements. Through coordination with UNICEF and relevant Ministries of Education, WFP will work to provide expanded nutrition and food supply education, creating school/community gardens to teach students about nutrition and food supply while providing small-level production for school meal programmes, where appropriate. Students themselves will be provided with ‘OneCards’ and will be able to earn small incentive top-ups through school attendance and for completing nutrition/food supply education modules (e.g. In partnership with Microsoft, create educational game for children to learn about nutrition and food supply) which can be spent in a multi-faceted school a la carte programme and/or “Tuck” shop. These Tuck Shops, as in Europe and Australia, would provide food and stationary/books and could be staffed by parents or create additional livelihood opportunities for women.

“I am thankful my ten children are with me. They are all I have now.” - Ibtisam


VO3 Livelihoods

Resilient livelihoods for Syrian refugees in camps

The situation of Syrian refugees is clearly unsustainable as long as refugees do not have access to food, education, health and housing. The Government of Jordan is increasingly recognizing that refugees could be potential economic resources and is willing to facilitate the establishment of a regulatory framework for trade and work in specific locations/sectors, which specifically includes the camps.

Many Syrian refugees have excellent knowledge and skills of agriculture (i.e. for both crop and livestock production) and therefore are ideally situated to participate in agricultural activities that can generate food and income. If adequate technical support is provided and with proper financial incentives, Syrian refugees in camps can become important players in the food assistance system as farming activities can generate a relevant share of the fresh and processed crop and animal products and by-products that are sold in the camp supermarkets that are also linked to WFP’s voucher system.

Equally important is the need to improve nutritional and dietary knowledge of the Syrian refugees in camp settings to ensure an improved capacity at family level to use healthy and nutritious foods through the appropriate production, processing and storage of fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat, dairy products, etc.

Building on WFP and FAO’s experience in camps and Jordanian host communities, WFP proposes to launch livelihood activities that will strengthen the resilience of Syrian refugees residing in camps to absorb, recover and adapt from the impacts of the protracted crisis, reduce risks and anticipate and mitigate future shocks through improved food security, nutrition, income generation and renewable resource base.

Proposed activities are:

1. Adoption of a feasibility study by concerned stakeholders for farm development at Azraq refugee camp;

2. Expansion of “homestead/family farming” systems for farm families with no or limited access to land:

i. Support to household “homestead/family farming” for improved food nutrition and income generation within Azraq refugee camp through the up-scaling of FAO’s “urban farming” initiatives based on soil-less and hydrophonics’ technologies and implementation of participatory learning methodologies such as farmer field schools (FFSs) and junior farmer field and life schools (JFFLSs);

ii. Support to agro-forestry (e.g. planting of moringa and acacia trees) along homestead and field boundaries and water catchment/harvesting structures (as a source of shade, human nutrition, animal fodder and soil conservation) within Azraq refugee camp and host communities (where land resources are sufficient) through “cash transfers” and implementation of men and women FFSs and JFFLSs.

3. Enhanced community-based farming, post-harvest management (PHM) and natural resource management (NRM) for farm families with access to land;

4. Increased employment opportunities through enhanced supply and value chains.


Vision 2020 will focus livelihood and economic opportunity efforts on the holistic food supply chain, from farm to table, identifying and supporting the unique needs and opportunities within the region for private and public sector food production, processing, transportation/handling, and retail. WFP will help rebuild and develop entire value chains needed to increase food security both directly and through greater economic opportunity/access. This approach will support stabilization within Syria through increasing economic opportunity, and help create a viable environment necessary for safe and voluntary returns. Support to food supply chain business will overlap with WFP projects designed to rehabilitate infrastructure, provide access to micro-capital, vocational training/work placement, increased use of user-demanded market data, and the larger WFP retail strategy.

In Syria, WFP will work directly and through partners to connect small-scale producers with productive assets, vocational training, functional infrastructure, and credit needed to enter/rebuild the production of market-demanded food commodities. Market/production assessments will be completed, but to date, honey, olive, dairy, tomatoes, and lentils have been preliminarily identified as target value chains. Direct assistance (food and/or cash) will be provided to vulnerable and new producers to allow for rehabilitation/reclamation of food production and ensure they are able to see crops through to initial harvest. At the sub-governorate/national level WFP will support private and public actors with provision of key market-demanded productive inputs for food fortification, processing, and marketing through

asset provision, vocational training, and access to credit. In addition WFP-supported infrastructure rehabilitation programmes will create functional infrastructure needed for food production, processing, transport, and retail. WFP will work with partners including Microsoft to identify new ways to share market/price information to WFP-supported supply chain businesses and publically through digital platforms to encourage greater efficiencies and entry/ re-entry to supply chain related businesses as part of larger return efforts.In host countries, WFP will focus on rehabilitation of supply chain business assets/infrastructure (e.g. land reclamation, irrigation, water storage, and terracing) connecting to community asset/infrastructure rehabilitation projects wherever possible. Small scale producers will be engaged with provision of key agricultural inputs, and training in small-scale production, post-harvest handling, and solid waste management connected where possible to the GROW programme. Businesses further in the supply chain (processing, retail) will benefit from application of WFP’s retail strategy, providing increased information on consumer purchasing habits to increase stocking efficiencies, while driving down prices for consumers. Businesses across the supply chain will benefit from WFP’s vocational training/work placement programme, connecting graduates with businesses to create apprenticeships for Syrians and employment opportunities for vulnerable Jordanians. WFP will support partners (UNDP, WB, etc.) in the provision of microcredit through its One Card platform to further capacitate the private sector along the food supply chain (production, processing, transport, and retail).

V03 – Restore Livelihoods and Create Economic Opportunity

Support to food Supply Chain Business


Building off WFP and UNDP’s partnership on a key Employment Opportunity Assessment, and in coordination with larger returns efforts, WFP will create savings schemes for refugees in support of empowered, resilient returns. WFP will provide refugees the opportunity to save up to 10% of income earned from conditional cash programming and income generating activities in host countries, including community and food supply chain infrastructure rehabilitation/development. Money saved will be placed in beneficiary-controlled accounts which will be released and accessed upon beneficiaries’ voluntary return to Syria.

WFP will connect beneficiaries’ savings accounts with purchasing power multipliers including its retail strategy to provide scaled value (e.g. 1.5x, 2.0x) when purchasing core or locally produced food items, and loyalty programmes to further assert downward price pressure on key items, and reinforce food security/ food supply chain development. This approach is aligned with UNDP’s 3x6 regional strategy which should enable partnerships between the two sister agencies in cash-based transfers and longer term income generating initiatives.

V03 – Restore Livelihoods and Create Economic Opportunity Empowered Returns:Increasing the rate of Savings

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WFP will continue to provide host governments with technical assistance and advice in the fields of its vertical and horizontal comparative advantage. This can include assistance in food security and vulnerability analysis,

supply chain management, social protection initiatives, logistics and ICT support, emergency preparedness and response; policy advice, and official study visits to our centers of excellence.

The World Bank/UNHCR report noted the need for ensuring that the refugee population has the opportunity to positively contribute towards the economic growth and stability of the host countries. A systematic analysis of the displaced persons, particularly the youth in terms of their socio-economic indicators including educational status, place of origin and willingness to return when conditions permit, are pre-requisites for the implementation of such an initiative.

Furthermore, WFP will continue to undertake joint comprehensive vulnerability assessments

across the region and inside Syria to meet the humanitarian and developmental information needs of the multiple stakeholders. Credible and transparent analysis generated through the application of best available methodologies will be provided to better inform humanitarian and development policies and programmes for the host populations, IDPs and refugees alike. The multi-sectoral nature of this work will require collaboration across a wide range of national and international partners.

VO4 Building National Capacity

Advisory capacity

VO4 Building National Capacity

Applied research initiatives

“I used to work as a farmer, living and eating off the sweat of my brow. I had confidence that my children were safe.” - Ziad


Photo credits: Front cover (clockwise from top left) WFP/Abeer Etefa, WFP/Giulio d’Adamo, WFP/Abeer Etefa, WFP/Giulio d’Adamo, WFP/Berna Cetin; page 2, WFP/Photolibrary; page 5, WFP/Dina El Kassaby; page 6, WFP/Photolibrary; page 7, WFP/Hussam Al Saleh; page 8, WFP/Hussam Al Saleh; page 9, WFP/Dina El Kassaby; page 12, WFP/Abeer Etefa; page 16, WFP/Abeer Etefa; page 18, WFP/Giulio d’Adamo; back cover, WFP/Abeer Etefa

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