Lebanon Emergency Crisis and COVID-19 Response Social Safety Net Project (ESSN)
1. What is the ESSN Project?
The ESSN is a US$246 million 3-year project that will provide cash transfers and access to social services to extreme poor and vulnerable Lebanese populations affected by the economic and COVID-19 crises. The objective of the ESSN is to arrest the increase in extreme poverty and to preserve the human capital of 13 - 18 years old children enrolled in public schools, through the provision of cash transfers and access to social services. The ESSN also aims to build a sustainable national social safety net (SSN) system in Lebanon. The ESSN will scale-up and enhance the Government of Lebanon s (GOL) National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP). The NPTP is Lebanon s main poverty-targeting social assistance program launched in 2011 with financial and technical assistance from the World Bank. The ESSN project is financed through a US$246 million World Bank low-interest long-term matur
Humanitarian Situation Overview in Syria (HSOS): Northwest Syria, November 2020
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Overview
The following situation overview aims to inform the humanitarian response through highlighting the context of residents and internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in communities, sites and settlements across non-government-held areas of Northwest Syria (NWS). To do so, multi-sector findings on key humanitarian needs are presented within broader contextual findings, such as increasing numbers of IDPs living in camps and settlements, and ongoing economic deterioration.
Findings are extracted from four REACH assessments all undertaken in October and November 2020: the Humanitarian Situation Overview in Syria (HSOS) (data collected between 1-17 October); the Emergency Needs Tracking (ENT) System (data collected throughout November); the Shelter Count exercise in Dana and Jandaris sub-districts (analysis of images taken on 18 and 24 August); and the Market Monitoring (MM) exercise (data