WFP SYRIA REGIONAL SITUATION REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2015

Highlights:

• Assessment findings confirm the correlation between the reductions in humanitarian support to Syrian refugees and the increase in the number of Syrians risking their lives in the hope of a better future in EU countries.
• Returns to Syria amongst refugee families living in Jordanian communities increased by 17 percent between the first week of August and the first week of September, with an average of 300 people returning per week.
• In September, a total of approximately 360,000 refugees in Jordan and Lebanon did not receive food assistance. 
• The results from a rapid panel assessment conducted in Jordan reveal a startling deterioration in food security and an increased level of vulnerability amongst refugees in communities whom ceased to receive food assistance: (I) poor food consumption more than tripled; (II) 34 percent more families withdrew their children from school and the those sending children out to work increased six-fold.
• Findings from the 2015 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees (VASyR) confirm the growing food insecurity of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.