Provide of life-saving assistance and support the self-resilience of crisis-affected population in rural of Aleppo. This project pursuits scaling-up efforts to sustain minimum food consumption needs of the most vulnerable IDPs and host community population in western rural of Aleppo province.
This intervention will complement our ongoing project and will make big contribution towards addressing the critical food insecurity and instability of the IDPs in the camps through distribution of free bread as well as supporting the livelihood assets through supporting the wheat value chain and access to agriculture.
MASRRAT will Support the local wheat value chain through marketing, wherein MASRRAT has an ongoing project supporting 600 wheat farmers beneficiaries in Aleppo countryside (funded by OCHA). So, MASRRAT will purchase 360 tons of wheat seeds with supported price from the beneficiaries and other farmers (600 kg from each farmer) based on specific criteria for ensuring the pureness of the wheat. The purchased wheat will be used as follows:
1. 240 tons of the purchased wheat will be milled to produce 192 tons of wheat flour and 48 tons of wheat bran (80% + 20% of the purchased wheat seeds) and supply flour directly to bakeries and provide free bread distribution (175.8 tons white bread and 55 tons of bran bread) to 2400 of the most vulnerable IDP HHs for four consecutive months in the targeted locations whose access to subsidized bread is limited. Wherein, MASRRAT will contract with four bakeries to increase the community participation and reduce work pressure and to ensure that the bakeries will not exceed the daily production capacity which will affect the bread quality (part of the resulted wheat bran will be used to cover the costs of milling the wheat flour).
2. The other part of the purchased wheat seeds (120 tons will produce 114 tons of pure wheat after screening, 5% impurities) will be used for improving access to agriculture by distributing it to 456 new wheat farmers. Every beneficiary will receive 250 kg of wheat seeds, one fuel voucher for supplementary irrigation 125 $ as well as three technical training sessions about GAP. The beneficiaries of wheat activity will be from the local community and IDPs who settled for a while, own or renting land between 7 to10 donums suitable for wheat, as well as the farmers who meet the selection criteria.
This project will support 14420 beneficiaries affected by the Syrian crisis (3750 men, 3186 women, 3648 boys and 3835 girls including 303 PWDs) by promoting their accessibility to the humanitarian assistance significantly. All the people in the targeted villages and markets will benefit directly/indirectly from the project where the wheat will be available in the markets at normal prices. The project is designed with consideration to the cluster and WHO recommendation on prevention and mitigation measures related to COVID-19 especially during the distribution of support and conducting trainings. In addition, protection cluster recommendations were taken into consideration, wherein all the population in the targeted locations will benefit from MASRRAT protection Centers in Aleppo, in the event of any GBV referral cases.
The target villages in Jebel Samman district/Atareb sub-district are considered from the most densely populated areas:
Jeineh 6272 HCs amp 2580IDPs
Atareb 23950 HCs amp 8632IDPs
Kafr Karmin 7100 HCs amp 6000 IDPs
Babka 2800 HCs amp 1650 IDPs
Abin Samaan 12920 HCs amp 6257IDPs
Batbu 4800 HCs amp 5030 IDPs
Kafr Naseh Elatareb 3960 HCs amp 7491 IDPs