Building community resilience and people¡¯s livelihoods is crucial to end the vicious cycle of poverty and vulnerability in Syria. The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) - jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ¨C completed the rehabilitation of Sector 5 irrigation system in Deir-ez-Zor, northeast Syria. Learn what that meant for the communities in terms of resilience and food security.
The evaluation of the Syrian Arab Republic interim country strategic plans for 2018¨C2025, including the transitional plan for 2018, was conducted between October 2022 and January 2024 with the main purpose of providing evaluation evidence and learning with regard to the performance of Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the Syrian Arab Republic from 2018 to June 2023.
This corporate emergency evaluation assessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to the COVID-19 pandemic from February 2020 ¨C June 2021. The evaluation was conducted under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including Â鶹ÊÓƵ in emergency mode; travel and movement restrictions; and the need to avoid unduly burdening country offices. Accordingly, it adopted a ¡°retrospective developmental¡± design, which focuses on providing evidence to support adaptation in dynamic environments.
From June ¨C November 2020, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ piloted a new project in Damascus and Rural Damascus with the aim of supporting vulnerable Syrian families to improve their food security.
The evaluation was conducted in the context of Â鶹ÊÓƵ efforts to strategically position itself across the humanitarian development and peace nexus in the framework of the Agenda 2030 and the UN reform. It assessed progress towards the 2013 School Feeding Policy objectives, and how well Â鶹ÊÓƵ is positioned and equipped to deliver on its school feeding agenda, with particular emphasis on the organizational readiness to implement the 2020-2030 school feeding strategy.
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service is a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations on the planet.
Nearly 15 million children between 5-14 years old are out of school in MENA, and 10 million are in school but at risk of dropping out due to poverty and social marginalization, as well as migration, displacement and conflict. This brief provides key messages and actions for governments, Â鶹ÊÓƵ offices and partners to strengthen linkages between school feeding programmes and social protection to maximize the benefits of National School Feeding Programmes (NSFPs) as safety nets in the region.
A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response.
In 2017, Â鶹ÊÓƵ commissioned a Gender, Risk and Urban Livelihood study in Syria to better understand the changing gender roles in vulnerable and food-insecure urban households due to the conflict, and the protection risks that men and women face when accessing livelihoods. The study informed a number of programmatic entry points for Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Syria relating to the design of safe, gender-responsive urban livelihoods programmes.
This report synthetized the findings, conclusions and recommendations from four strategic evaluations related to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR): the global Logistics Cluster (2012), the global Food Security Cluster (2014), Â鶹ÊÓƵ's use of pooled funds for humanitarian preparedness and response (2015) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Preparedness and Response Enhancement Programme (PREP) (2015).
