Relief and Empowerment for Syrian Refugees in Armenia



Contract partner: ÖRK - Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz Country: Armenien Funding amount: € 300.000,00 Project start: 01.11.2014 End: 30.06.2015

Short Description:

Overall goal


September 2014 approximately 12.000 Syrian refugees are 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 from Syria ceased. The approaching winter further deteriorates the situation of the refugees. The basic needs are:

• lack of sufficient food supplies and difficulties to access urgently needed items for daily use (hygiene supplies, household items, medication);

• lack of affordable and appropriate shelter

• difficulties with children school attendance related to enrolment, cloths, social integration

• difficulties to access to employment opportunities


The objective of the proposed project is to prepare vulnerable Syrian refugees to better cope with their challenging living conditions. The target group are 300 refugee households (with a total of appr. 1200 persons, mostly living in Yerevan and others also in the other 10 regions of Armenia – not in Nagorno Karbakh) that will be supported through


• Provision of urgently needed items to 300 households for daily use including 1800 food parcels, 2100 hygiene parcels and household items according to actual needs

• Provision of vouchers for medication to 300 persons with chronic diseases

• Support to 40 heads of households to build up their livelihood and generate their own income (startup funding for tools and vocational training)

project number 2769-00/2014
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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