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More than 300,000 Syrian households have received seasonal support through cash or in- kind assistance this year
HIGHLIGHTS:
In Turkey, the Basic Needs Sector continues to provide transportation services to refugees from the camps to city centre. Nearly 1,200 Syrians benefitted from these services in March, enabling them to purchase necessary items not available in camps.
In Lebanon, under the 2015/2016 inter-agency winter support plan, 183,000 households received cash for winter grants and an additional 70,000 households received core relief items such as warm blankets, stoves, and clothing kits. The assistance enabled families to purchase fuel for heating and winter clothing, improve their shelters, and meet additional food requirements. In the first quarter of 2016, 3RP partners also visited an additional 26,000 refugee households to determine their eligibility for cash assistance and profile their cross-sectoral needs (see story to the right).
In Jordan this month, the Basic Needs Working Group continued its collaborative response in providing more than USD 7.9 million worth of regular cash and winterization support to vulnerable beneficiaries from the refugee and host community. The provision of cash and basic needs assistance in Zaatari and Azraq camps also continued.
In Iraq, the final distributions of support for the 2015/2016 winter season took place. Around 215 families in Erbil received kerosene distributions and 915 households in Domiz received stoves. In addition, around 280 newly arrived families received initial basic needs assistance.
In Egypt, a total of 30,710 vulnerable Syrian refugees were assisted through the provision of monthly cash grants in March. In total, more than USD 6 million has been injected into the local economy through the monetization of assistance since the beginning of 2016.