Creating Livelihood Opportunities through Reviving and Scaling-up Three Mid-Scale Irrigation Schemes Facilities in Salqin District-Envelope 2 This project is a continuation and complementarity to a previous project funded by SCHF 1st allocation 2020, and strongly will contribute to resume achieving communities recovering and food security outcomes in the targeted communities, remained assets of the previous project will be used efficiently in implementing this project to significantly increase the financial feasibility of the planned and previously implemented projects. 

The project is planned to support three vulnerable communities through rehabilitating and providing irrigation facilities and infrastructures in three mid-scale participatory (public) irrigation projects located in Salqin sub-district: Delbiya, Farukiah, and Jikara, all selected communities suffer from severity and hosting one of the highest numbers of IDPs in NW of Syria.

After project implementation, full access will be provided to essential and basic communities’ irrigation infrastructure throughout reviving, rehabilitating and scaling up irrigation infrastructures of three irrigation schemes have been established by the local communities for decades and have been ruined over the time and as result of Syrian crisis.

Project components have been designed to Increase the resilience of war affected communities by improving access to livelihood opportunities and basic services, through integrated, coherent, and in-depth coordinated Early Recovery and Food Security activities, and its intervention will provide a long-term and sustainable humanitarian impact.

616 HHs leaders will have permanent job opportunities by working in agriculture after delivering water to their lands, in addition to tens of indirect livelihood will be generated by supplying in the local market with additional production of olives and vegetables. Added to increase food processing livelihood opportunities.

reviving irrigation infrastructures will be by providing and installing supply and distribution water pipelines, valves, 7 water pumps, installing full electricity network, 3 elec. Transformers, 22 elec. Towers, cables and 14 elec. Control and distribution panels in addition to rehabilitating small scale reservoirs and canals. 

Furthermore, the project will support HHs from society around the irrigation schemes area by providing pruning service for rainfed olives trees through cash for work modality as a mitigation measure to lowering any tension between irrigation project beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, 180 temporary job opportunities will be generated through project implementation to be another mitigation measure in purpose to decrease this tension.

Selecting beneficiaries of CFW and agriculture input support activities will be based on need and vulnerability with special consideration to IDPs, HHs headed by women and/or disabled people.
The project will assist and contribute to the protection of the most vulnerable groups of women, men, girls and boys in all age groups and disabled people in the targeted communities.
Beneficiaries have been involved in project designing and implementation through the close coordination with local councils and communities representatives, beneficiaries will be engaged in evaluation through satisfaction survey and complaint mechanism as well.