EU Trust Fund launches €350 million aid package in response to the Syrian crisis

The package of programmes is the single biggest EU measure in response to the Syrian refugee crisis to date.

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In the coming months, the €350 million package of programmes will provide aid to 1.5 million refugees and overstretched host communities in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

The aid package consists of four different programmes:

  • €140 million education programme will finance a massive scale-up of support to the Ministries of Education in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan to enable them to enroll an additional 172,000 refugee children in school, while also providing for accelerated learning programmes, non-formal and early childhood education and child protection activities.
  • €130 million resilience & local development programme responds to the urgent need of improving economic opportunities for refugees and vulnerable host communities beyond dependency on humanitarian relief.
  • €55 million health programme aims to widen and enhance access of refugees across the region to primary, secondary and tertiary health care, psycho-social support, and protection from sexual and gender-based violence.
  • €25 million will be used to set-up a water, sanitation and hygiene programme for Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon.

For further information on this aid package, read the full press release of the European Commission. More detailed information on the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis is available here.

Publication Date: Tue 01 Dec 2015
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