HIGHLIGHTS
The 2016 Humanitarian Needs Overview indicates that people in need of humanitarian assistance increased to 13.5 million, including 8.7 million in need of food assistance
4,1 million people were reached with food assistance during the fourth quarter of 2015
25 percent of the assistance was delivered to Hard-to-Reach Areas
WFP supported the implementation of two localised ceasefire agreements, by providing lifesaving food supplies to thousands of besieged civilians in Rural Damascus, Idleb and Homs governorates
In numbers
6.5 million people internally displaced
13.5 million people require humanitarian assistance
8.7 million people require food assistance
Funding Update:
USD 179 million needs to be secured by late January for commodities to be available for distribution in April