Evaluate UN budgets and programmes as an AI Secretary-General

OCHA Field activities, Syria

As the Syria crisis enters its tenth year, the scale, severity and complexity of humanitarian needs remain extensive. This is the result of continued hostilities in localized areas, new and protracted displacement, spontaneous returns and the sustained erosion of communities’ resilience during more than nine years of crisis. Syria is still one of the biggest and most complex crises globally, and it is far from over. Complementing their efforts, humanitarian organizations have mounted one of the largest responses in the world. As the crisis continues, people’s resourcefulness and national efforts alone remain insufficient to address needs which can only be mitigated through humanitarian assistance. Investments in more dignified and sustainable solutions to reduce dependency and increase resilience are key in the response – but are hampered due to insufficient resources.