Highlights
• WFP assisted 673,038 displaced Syrians in April 2017, of which 23 percent were female-headed and 66 percent were households with children under the age of five;
• WFP assisted households showed better food security indicators compared to non–assisted households;
• Food consumption for assisted households improved significantly in 2016 and remained stable until April 2017 with 64 percent of households having an acceptable food consumption. The percentage of households with poor food consumption reached the lowest level (4 percent) since the beginning of the FSOM;
• Non-assisted households showed a worsening of monitoring outcomes and they increased coping strategies and debts;
• More than half of the interviewed displaced Syrians perceived that food security among their community improved compared to last year, around 32 percent considered that it remained the same and 13 percent thought it had worsened;
• Overall satisfaction about WFP assistance continued to increase. The satisfaction on how assistance was provided reached the highest value since January 2016 showing programme quality improvements in addressing beneficiaries’ needs.
DISPLACED SYRIANS
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. As part of the regional Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200987, WFP Lebanon is providing lifesaving food assistance to vulnerable UNHCR-registered displaced Syrians through an electronic food voucher (e-card) system. The Food Security Outcome Monitoring (FSOM), which started in 2016, measures food security outcome trends among beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries households on a quarterly basis to inform WFP programme.
The sixth FSOM round was conducted in April 2017 when WFP provided food assistance to 673,038 displaced Syrians ( 128,255 households ). Of those, 23 percent where households headed by a female, and 66 percent were households with children under the age of five. The programme ability to reach beneficiaries remained high with 97 percent of food vouchers redeemed.