WFP Türkiye Activity 1 External Sitrep (October – December 2023)

Quarterly Update

WFP continues the in-camp e-voucher programme in collaboration with the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC), providing around 46,000 beneficiaries in seven camps in the southeast with a monthly assistance of Turkish Lira (TRY) 300 (US$ 10) per person. The Presidency of Migration Management (PMM) adopted a camp decongestion strategy which involves closing some of the camps and consolidating vulnerable refugee households with special needs in Adana camp. Accordingly, the WFP-assisted Kilis camp was closed at the end of November. The camp residents were supported by PMM to settle in urban areas or move back to Syria, which resulted in a decrease in the overall number of beneficiaries in the reporting period. WFP also started talks with PMM to include in the programme Malatya camp, hosting around 11,500 Syrians.

Monitoring

The food basket cost in the contracted shops in the six camps hosting Syrian refugees increased from TRY 915 (US$ 31.5) to TRY 969 (US$ 33.4) between October and December, representing a 5 percent increase. Meanwhile, the preliminary findings of the WFP-TRC comprehensive needs assessment of refugees living in seven camps as of July—excluding the Elazig camp which hosts Ukrainian refugees—demonstrate that one third of the surveyed households are highly vulnerable, half of them rely on WFP assistance as their main source of income, and the majority do not have any plans to leave the camps. According to the Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) surveys conducted with Ukrainian refugees, the percentage of households with acceptable food consumption decreased to 97 percent in Q4 2023 from 100 percent in Q2 2023. The surveyed households report resorting to at least one type of consumption and livelihood coping strategy. The percentage of households headed by women resorting to coping behaviour is higher than households headed by men.