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Evaluation of the project “FAO Syria Smallholder Support Programme for Agriculture Transformation”

Project code: GCP/SYR/023/EC

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 72 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Series number No. 14/2024

Synopsis (short abstract) FAO's transition from humanitarian projects to resilience long-term programming has been a positive evolution of programming in the Syrian Arab Republic. This shift has resulted in noteworthy, widespread, and at scale outcomes among vulnerable smallholder farmers. FAO through the programme has demonstrated approaches that can be replicated to support the transformation of agriculture in the Syrian Arab Republic to a decentralized and locally led system. Adopting an area-based approach may have enabled programme activities to be more mutually re-enforcing and potentially created a multiplier effect. Greater consideration of an exit strategy that lays the foundation for sustainability at community level is required and alternative funding partners should be sought for institutional capacity development in resilience to ensure sustainability.

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FAO. 2024. Evaluation of the project “FAO Syria Smallholder Support Programme for Agriculture Transformation”. Project Evaluation Series,14/2024. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0162en

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