Adoption of new programmes in the framework of the EU Syria Trust Fund

Further information:

The assistance package was adopted at the EU Trust Fund Board meeting and are aimed at projects in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Serbia. Projects are to support the most affected municipalities in the region, agricultural livelihoods and food security, school construction, the upgrading of waste-water systems in areas with high refugee concentration, as well as refugee protection, research and advocacy.

Background information:

The EU Syria Trust Fund was established in December 2014 and provides most of the support from the European Union to help Syrian refugees and host communities in those countries neighbouring the conflict region.

The Trust Fund is a key instrument to deliver the EU's pledges for the crisis made at the London conference on Syria in 2016 and the Brussels conference in April 2017, and also underpins the special EU Compacts agreed with Jordan and Lebanon to assist them in the protracted refugee crisis.

The adopted assistance package brings the overall amount of projects committed under the Trust Fund to €1.2 billion.

The EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis adopted on 6 December 2017 a set of new projects totalling €150 million to support refugees and their host communities in countries affected by the flow of refugees from Syria.