461,000 people assisted in January 2023 (estimate)
US$ 14.2 m cash-based transfers transferred (estimate)
US$ 63.5 m six months (February -July 2023) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
• WFP is committed to addressing food and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations including refugees. In January,
WFP continued to provide monthly food assistance to around 460,000 vulnerable refugees in camps and host communities through cash-based transfers. Most refugees assisted come from Syria (96 percent), with a minority from Iraq (3 percent), and the remaining from Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and other countries.
• In line with the National Financial Inclusion Strategy, WFP promotes refugees’ financial inclusion, shifting their assistance from e-cards to mobile money accounts (ewallets) owned by refugees. In January, over 91,000 Syrian refugees in communities received assistance through this modality; 38 percent of the wallets are owned by women.
• WFP is dedicating efforts to improve nutrition habits and health for women with anaemia and high-risk pregnancies. In cooperation with Caritas and the International Medical Corps (IMC), WFP continued this month with the Social and Behaviour Change Communication awareness campaigns for pregnant and lactating refugee women in host communities.
• As part of WFP’s support to the National School Feeding Programme, WFP’s Country Director, Mr Alberto Mendes met the new Minister of Education, H.E. Azmy Mahafzah in January. Mr. Mendes reiterated WFP’s continuous support to the Ministry through National School Feeding and ensured its financial sustainability.
• Due to the schools’ winter vacation, WFP paused its school feeding activities in January. Nevertheless, WFP will resume its feeding activities with the schools reopening in February.
• WFP continues to provide technical support to the Ministry of Social Development in line with the National Social Protection Strategy (2019-2025) as part of its efforts to bolster the national social protection system. In January, in partnership with UNICEF, WFP continued its technical support to create a unified Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Ministry.
• In supporting youth, WFP hosted a session to present its CSP for 2022-2027 to the UN Youth Advisory Council (UNYAC). WFP brainstormed on youth inclusion in the CSP implementation. UNYAC serves as an advisory board to inform the work of the UN on youth affairs in the country.
• WFP aims to empower individuals with enhanced selfreliance, sustainable access to livelihood opportunities, and greater resilience to unexpected challenges by 2027. Under the EU Regional Trust Fund to the Syrian crisis ‘EUMADAD’, WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), in cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), led intensive plantation activities during January in the national forests under the cash-for-asset project supporting 215 participants. Moreover, 240 participants worked in the plantation activities in the three rangeland conservations in Karak and Madaba. Under the activities related to the winter season, 110 participants worked in canal cleaning supervised by the MoA in four governorates. Furthermore, a total of 270 participants worked in seedling production activities in 16 different seedling production nurseries.
Source: World Food Programme