Emergency response to support life saving sustaining livelihoods and food security of poor herders` households affected by the ongoing crisis and drought in Deir Ezzor, Homs, Hama and Rural Damascus provinces in the Syrian Arab Republic
In responding to the crisis, unrest and consecutive drought, and floods, FAO provided humanitarian assistance to about 9000 HHs through three ongoing projects funded from FAO own resources and from UN/CERF. However, the provided assistance was far below what actually needed. In fact, the total number of those very poor HHs who need farming and livelihood emergency assistance exceeds 250 000 rural HHs spread throughout the country. The emergency assistance extended over six months focused on the provision of animal feed in support of the very poor small herders and some income generation activities for those HHs who lost their sources of income due to the ongoing crisis.
Project code: OSRO/SYR/203/SWI