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TunisiaEU adopts new €100 million assistance package to benefit refugees and local communities in Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq
The EU – via the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis – adopted a €100 million new assistance package to support the resilience of refugees, internally displaced person (IDP) host communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. This will be done through the strengthening of public service delivery systems, improved access to higher education, and improved child protection services.
With this new package €1.6 billion out of a total of €1.8 billion mobilised by the EU Trust Fund have now been turned into financing concrete actions helping refugees and host countries alike.
The newly adopted €100 million aid package consists of the following actions:
- €55 million to support the resilience of refugees, IDPs, returnees and host communities in Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq
- €28.4 million for access to higher education for refugees and vulnerable host youth in Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq
- €12.5 million to provide protection services to children and women victim of gender based violence in Lebanon
- €3.6 million to continue and strengthen the Trust Fund’s horizontal monitoring and evaluation framework.
The Trust Fund also focuses on reinforcing the national systems for public service delivery to meet refugee and local community needs in the longer term. Currently 67 projects have been contracted to implementing partners on the ground.
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EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis
Factsheet – EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis
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