Relief and empowerment for Syrian Refugees



Contract partner: ÖRK - Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz Country: Armenien Funding amount: € 320.000,00 Project start: 01.10.2013 End: 31.07.2014

Short Description:

Overall goal


The deepening crisis in Syria causes an influx of refugees to Armenia. By September 2013 approximately 9.000 Syrian refugees have been residing in Armenia. The situation for the majority of refugees has deteriorated over the last months as their assets are fully depleted and financial support for the refugees has been decreaseing. The approaching winter further further causes the refugees's situation to deteriorate so that they are currently facing the following problems:

• lack of sufficient food supplies;

• lack of affordable and appropriate shelter;

• difficulties to access urgently needed items for daily use (especially winter clothing, hygiene supplies and household items);

• difficulties to afford urgently needed medication;

• difficulties to access employment opportunities.


The objective of the project is to thus prepare vulnerable Syrian refugees to better cope with their challenging living conditions. The target group of the proposed project are 300 refugee families (appr. 900 persons) who will be supported through:


• Provision of urgently needed items for daily use including essential household items

and winter clothing;

• Provision of medication to persons with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes,

heart problems and;

• Assistance in generating their own income: the project aims to help people with

starting up their own business and business trainings.

project number 2732-01/2013
source of funding OEZA
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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