Building Resilience to the Vulnerable Crisis-Affected Population in North-West Syria through provision of Education and Agricultural Support. Shafak is proposing to implement an integrated Food Security and Education intervention that aims at addressing identified critical gaps and emergency food and education essential needs in NWS through promoting equitable access and quality of services provided for a total of 56,433people 3,762 men, 3,897 women, 23,608 boys, 25,166 girls, of them 1182 people with disabilities).

1) Food Security:
The proposed project aims to support the wheat crop which is considered as one of the main strategic crops in Syria. This intervention will increase resilience of people in NWS to ongoing shocks of conflict, displacement, environmental changes including drought or the medium-term economic uncertainty overall. Moreover, this action will contribute to food security of the affected populations and increase the availability of wheat flour and encourage farmers to resume or continue wheat crops cultivation. The project focuses on critical analysis of the Wheat Value Chain (WVC), supports livelihoods by increasing households' ability to meet the needs, and encourages self-reliance.

The project will be based in Idleb Governorate Ma’aret Tamsrin, Armanaz,and Benesh  subdistricts. The project will achieve its aspired objective by supporting (WVC), in line with the COVID-19 prevention guidelines, through following package of activities:

2350 male and female wheat farmers (owning between 1 to 6 hectares of land each) will receive agricultural inputs and services, extension sessions, harvesting, that covers the cost of cultivating 1 hectare to contribute to decreasing the cost of production the package of support will be:

a. distribution of cash with value (100$/hectare) to support the wheat farmers the voucher will cover the cost of 200kg of seeds 70$ , and 30 $  that contribute to the cost of land preparation.
b. distribution of Urea 46% fertilizer per in kind modality to the farmers who planted their wheat lands, where each farmer will receive 200kg of fertilizer as per FSL cluster recommendation
c. distribution of cash with a value of 70$ for wheat harvesting that covers the costs of harvesting 1 hectare including transportation and packaging cost.
d. provision of field training sessions on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and distribution of GAP booklets to farmers.

In total, the project will target 2350  unique HHs, 13,160 individuals: M 2895, W 3158, B 3685, G 3422, including estimated263 PwDs.

 2) Education:
Shafak will provide safe equitable access to life-sustaining formal education services for conflict-affected school children in 58 schools in and out of camps in Al Bab, A'zaz and Jebel Saman districts in Aleppo governorate, and Harim, Idleb, Jisr-Ash-Shugur districts in Idleb governorate, by providing life-saving winterization assistance through the following components:
- Provision of fuel stoves and fuel tanks as per on identified needs assessed within schools in the aforementioned locations, following a review of current needs on the ground, analysis of education funding gaps by cluster and education partners and supplemented by the latest contextual information and
 - Supply of fuel for heating in 58 schools (81 shifts) for the winter period of 2021-2022, to ensure a safe and conducive environment is provided where students will thrive and learn, where harsh winters in NWS can often discourage continuous access to education.
The education activities will target 41,667 conflict-affected school children (19,923 boys, 21,744 girls 53.56% IDPs, of them 919 CwDs), along with 1,606 teachers and education personnel (867 men, 739 women).