Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Humanitarian aid, including food aid, has increasingly shifted towards the provision of cash assistance over in-kind benefits. This paper examines whether food security mediates the relationship between receipt of humanitarian cash transfers and subjective wellbeing among Syrian refugee youth in Jordan.

Design

Secondary analysis of the 2020-21 Survey of Young People in Jordan, which is nationally representative of Syrian youth aged 16-30. We employ stepwise model building and structural equation models.

Setting

Jordan.

Participants

Syrian refugee youth aged 16-30 (n 1572).

Results

While 92 % of Syrian households with youth received cash transfers from a UN agency, 78 % of households were food insecure using the Food Insecurity Experience

SUBMITTER: Sieverding M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822618 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature