Assistance Coordination Unit

After 13 years of relentless conflict, Syria face severe humanitarian challenges driven by deteriorating infrastructure, disrupted livelihoods, and inadequate essential services. With the recent fall of Assad’s regime and Syria’s liberation, the Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) underscores pressing multisectoral needs in education, food security, WASH, protection, livelihoods, health, and shelter. Key priorities include restoring electricity, enhancing education, ensuring security, delivering food and water, and addressing critical health and shelter needs. These findings highlight the urgency of coordinated interventions to tackle the complex crises affecting communities in Syria.

The Syrian IDP camps monitoring interactive study is issued by the IMU of the ACU on a monthly basis, to monitor the humanitarian situation of 231 IDp camps in Idleb and Aleppo governorates in Syria’s northwest, shedding light on the needs of the IDPs and the services provided in the camps in the following sectors: Population statistics, WASH, Health, Education, FSL, Shelter and NFI, in addition to the priority needs of IDPs. The study also includes statistics of those who arrive at and leave the camps and the important incidents which took place during the month of the data collection. This product is funded by the CDCS-MEAE. Disclaimer: The content, designations, and presentation of material in this report do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the ACU or contributory organizations/donors, nor does it imply any endorsement. Information is obtained from the ACU’s field network of enumerators by conducting Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with sources believed to be reliable but are in no way guaranteed. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.

The Information Management Unit (IMU) of Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU) produced the Eighth Edition of the “Winter Needs in Northwest Syria Camps” report. It sheds light on the reality of displacement camps in Northwest Syria, the numbers of IDPs and their age groups, the nature of IDPs’ shelters, their most urgent needs for the coming winter, and the top priorities of the needs. The report also highlights shows the availability of civil defense centers at the camps. The report presents recommendations for humanitarian actors to respond to the most urgent and life-saving response to be provided based on the findings of the study.

The ACU’s Information Management Unit conducted the 5th version of its annual research “Schools in Syria”, to highlight the impact of the Syrian conflict on the education sector in the Syrian Arab Republic. This is the most representative, nuanced iteration of this study to date, covering 4,016 schools within 78 sub-districts across 6 governorates in all non-governmental areas of the Syrian Arab Republic, building upon 38,538 data e-forms with 34,522 forms on perception surveys with school students, teachers, principals and parents. The research key findings and data represent the time period of February till May 2019 which cover the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019. This report provides a broad view of the current obstacles and most pressing needs of the educational sector, covering a spectrum of issues ranging from facilities to student and teacher life in Syria’s embattled regions. The report consists of 15 sections: Methodology, General Information, Functioning School Buildings, WASH in Schools, School Equipment, School Levels and School Days, Curricula, Certificates, Students, School and Students Needs, Teachers, Disabled Students and Psychosocial Support, Policies and Regulations within Schools, Non-Functional Schools, Priorities and Recommendations. The 5th version of Schools in Syria will be released and published by mid-December 2019.