Key Highlights:

• More than two out of five interviewed households (44 percent) at national level reported poor or borderline food consumption in August 2021, marking a two percentage points decrease compared to July 2021 and an increase by three percent from August 2020.
• In August 2021, overall 69 percent of surveyed households indicated that they bought food on credit, an increase of five percent year-on-year, with a higher share recorded in Dar’a (78 percent) and Al-Hasakeh (77 percent).
• In Dar’a governorate, nearly two out of five interviewed households (38 percent) reported not having access to markets, representing an increase of 10 percentage points from a month earlier.
• From interviews conducted in August, 70 percent of surveyed households in Syria reported their intent to have all household members vaccinated should the COVID-19 vaccine be made available to them free of charge.