Damascus, SANA-The Acting Head of the Planning and International Cooperation Commission, Musab al-Badawi, discussed in two separate meetings at the Commission with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program the prospects of cooperation in various humanitarian fields with the two organizations and ways to develop them.
Al-Badawi stressed the government’s commitment to developing effective policies to protect the most vulnerable groups in society in light of the injustice and corruption that the country has experienced in the past years.
He pointed out that aspects of cooperation with UNICEF include the advisory aspect in developing systems and strategies related to the social registry and achieving justice and social protection.
Al-Badawi revealed the Authority’s intention to prepare a team of experts and specialists to develop indicators on the most important needs of the Syrian people, especially children, with regard to social protection, calling on the two organizations to hold workshops and training courses to develop the team’s skills, which will contribute to its success in the tasks assigned to it.
For his part, UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Social Protection, Sampson Muradziko, said that the organization’s work in Syria includes providing the required support with regard to the humanitarian aspects that concern children and women, and building a better social system for Syrian children in terms of education, health, and others, and focusing on supporting the registry strategies and social protection for women and children.
Muradziko stressed UNICEF’s readiness to cooperate with the relevant parties inside and outside the country with the aim of identifying urgent needs, stressing the need to lift economic sanctions due to their negative effects on the Syrian people.
In turn, the Livelihoods Head at the World Food Program, Mohammed Salem, said that the executive steps for conducting the food security survey plan in Syria for the current year were discussed with the aim of determining the needs of Syrian citizens for food aid and providing recommendations to donors to provide them.
He indicated that it was agreed with the Planning and International Cooperation Authority to study the preparation of action plans to implement the “ABC” analysis in Syria, which includes the integrated phase classification of food security, to be completed by the end of the current year.
MHD Ibrahim
