Enhancing Resilience and Food Security through Supporting Wheat Value Chain and Free Bread Distribution to the neediest people  in Northwest Syria during COVID-19 pandemic The proposed project aims to support the wheat value chain in Syria through purchasing wheat crops from local farmers and use the purchased wheat in bread production.
-1000 tons of wheat crop (650 soft wheat and 350 durum wheat) will be purchased from the Most Vulnerable(MV) farmers in order to support their livelihood and hence their resilience in the following communities:
1-	Idleb -Idleb – Idleb- Qminas
2-	Idleb -Idleb-Sarmin- Sarmin
3-	Idleb-Harim-Armanaz-Ghafar
4-	Idleb-Harim-Armanaz-Bsaliya
5-	Idleb-Ariha-Mhambal-Al-balah
6-	Idleb-Ariha-Mhambal-Ora

-IHH will coordinate with local councils, local authorities and GOSM for selecting up to 250 farmers based on the following selection criteria:
 Household headed by females up to 30 % of total beneficiaries.
 Households who have people with disabilities in their families.
 Large household with 8 or more individuals in the family.
 Households who have access to farming land from 10 to 20 dunums.
 Households don't receive any agricultural support from other NGOs for this year.
Each farmer can provide 5 ton of wheat seeds at most.
Beneficiaries' names, vulnerability and matching selection criteria will be verified before registration.
The committee consists of IHHampINSAN team members in addition to agricultural experts will check the quality of the wheat before purchasing it in order to detect its Free of cracking, humidity, Mite insect, fungal diseases and impurities.
The 1000 tons of wheat will be sent to the mill to be grinded with extract percentage 75% flour and 25% bran. The produced 750 tons of local flour will be mixed (based on recommended mixture percentage by FSL cluster) with 500 tons of imported flour (durum and soft) provided by IHH as a free contribution to the project. While 250 ton of bran will be used to cover the operational costs of milling wheat.
1250 tons of flour will be sent to the bakery to be baked and produce a total of 2,056,080 free bread bundles, where Each ton of flour produces 1645 bread bundles, the weight of the bread bundle is 700 grams.
About 7908 free bread bundles will be distributed daily to 4669 HH’s in 37 camps in Maaret Tamasrin subdistrict for 26 days / monthly up to 10 months from 1/7/2021 to 30/4/2022 in the following communities:
- Kaftin 3 camps (599 H.Hs–3315 individuals)
- Kafr–Kafrehmul 14 camps (1539 H.Hs-9017 individuals) 
- Kelly 17 camps (2173 H.Hs–11505 individuals)
- Maaret Elekhwan 3 camps (358 H.Hs–1951 individuals) 

Distribution criteria will be:
HH with 1 - 4 individuals will receive one bread bundle.
HH with 5 - 8 individuals will receive two bread bundles.
HH with 9 and above will receive three bread bundles.

IHH will be responsible for purchasing 1000MT of wheat, contracting a mill to grind wheat, storing the flour in a warehouse, contracting a bakery to bake 1250MT of flour (750MT of flour produced from milling 1000MT of wheat, and 500MT of flour provided by IHH as free contribution in the project) and to transport bread to distribution centers.
While IC will be responsible for selecting beneficiaries of IDPs in the camps and distributing free bread to 4669 HHs in 37 camps  up to 10 months, coordination with camps managers in the targeted areas of bread distribution where it will sign MOU with them before the start of the project. Also IC will be responsible for conducting field visits and monitoring the work at distribution sites, mill and bakery.
The project will assist and contribute to the food security of the MV 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 will be involved in implementation through close coordination with the local council and community representatives, also beneficiaries will be engaged in evaluation through satisfaction survey and complaint mechanism.