Overall, the country evaluation on 2020 found FAO projects to have succeeded in achieving expected outputs. The project on land reclamation and water conservation was particularly effective in reaching expected results with likelihood of longer term impacts. For example, the project benefited more than 1 000 small householder farmers from grants for land reclamation and/or water conservation. The project  had a significant impact on the farmers’ capacity to undertake the needed farm investment, and is likely to have, in the short- to medium-term, a positive impact on their livelihoods.

The project was also successful in creating temporary job opportunities, estimated at about 70 000 man-days, 63 percent of which benefited Syrian refugees. More importantly, the project contributed to enhancing the institutional capacity of the Green Plan by effectively simplifying the procedures of grant attribution, and amending the beneficiaries’ eligibility criteria to become more sensitive to vulnerable farmers.

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