HIGHLIGHTS
With access easier, food for 112,500 people enters Syria’s hard-to-reach Deir-ez-Zor and Ar-Raqqa governorates in the first two weeks of April. An inter-agency convoy brings WFP food assistance to IDP camps in Idleb for the third time since the beginning of March, raising hopes of more regular future deliveries.
Exceptionally low rainfall in recent months is likely to result in below-average wheat production in Syria, threatening to aggravate food insecurity in the country. Safety net assistance programme launched for vulnerable Lebanese. WFP’s voucher programme in Jordan forecast to contribute 0.7% of GDP this year.
WFP completes transition from paper to e-vouchers in Greater Cairo. As security improves, April distributions in Iraq’s Gawilan camp proceed without incident.
WFP/Turkish Red Crescent expands its e-Food Card Programme to Midyat camp in Mardin province, bringing the total caseload to 143,000 people.