The political landscape in Syria remains volatile with rapidly shifting lines of control necessitating a flexible and rapid humanitarian response. The number of Syrian refugees living in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey remains relatively unchanged at approximately 5.6 million. Increasingly complex and interlinked humanitarian needs continue to exist across Syria, resulting from numerous factors such as direct exposure to hostilities, multiple cycles of displacement, targeted and arbitrary detention, lack or loss of civil documentation as well as constraints on freedom of movement. Challenges to delivery of sexual and reproductive health services (SRH), including lifesaving emergency obstetric care and contraception, remain, emanating from an overstretched and dilapidated health system. Health facilities and frontline health providers continue to face threats of attack. Additionally, the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) remains acute and disproportionally affects women and girls, both inside and outside their homes. UNFPA is responding both in government-controlled areas via operations from Damascus and in non-government controlled areas in Northwest and Northeast Syria via cross-border operations. UNFPA's response includes support for delivery of SRH and GBV services via a network of partner-administered facilities, provision of essential supplies and sustained capacity strengthening initiatives on the ground.
As of 09 June, 2020, the Syrian Ministry of Health (MoH) has reported 144 COVID-19 cases across Syria: 76 active, 62 recoveries and 6 registered deaths.1 The first positive case was announced on 22 March 2020, with the first fatality reported on 29 March 2020.
Results data are reported and updated as they become available.
- Targets and UNFPA's populations of concern, including women of reproductive age and pregnant women, are estimated using the MISP calculator.
- Funding estimates are based on country planning processes, including inter-agency humanitarian response plans and regional refugee and resilience plans.
L1: Humanitarian crises in which the national and international resources available in the affected country are sufficient for the required response.
L2: Humanitarian crises requiring significant support from neighbouring countries, regional organizations and possibly humanitarian agency headquarters.
L3: Major, sudden-onset humanitarian crises requiring mobilization across the humanitarian system.
Crisis levels are determined by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a forum of UN and non-UN humanitarian partners.
