Syria Humanitarian Response Plan 2019

Eight years into the crisis, the main drivers to food insecurity are protracted displacement, loss or lack of livelihoods and reduced production capacity. These factors have resulted in limited physical and financial access to food, high prices, and inflation, contributing to reduced purchasing power and continuous livelihood depletion for the most vulnerable. Humanitarian needs in Syria are expected to remain high in 2019 and multiple actions are needed to ensure that all four pillars of food security related to access, availability, utilization, and stability of food are adequately addressed through life-saving, life-sustaining, appropriate resilience, and early recovery interventions. Emergency response at the early onset of any sudden population movement as well as targeted food assistance and lifesaving emergency agricultural assistance to meet the nutritional and kilocalorie deficits of the most vulnerable populations as per food security indicators is crucial across Syria. the sector aims to provide wide-ranging support, covering emergency and regular food assistance, as well as household-level and community-based agricultural and livelihoods assistance.

The sector aims to target populations who are both food insecure as well as at risk of food insecurity through multiple but mutually reinforcing activities. The sector will target 5 million food insecure people by monthly food assistance so that they can maintain minimum consumption as per Sphere Standards, as well as 1.5 million food insecure people will receive livelihoods support. The sector aims to target the full 2.5 million people at risk of food insecurity with livelihoods assistance.