The IRC conducted a multi-sector needs assessment in 2024, covering the sectors of Protection, Health, Education and Economic Wellbeing, to identify key needs to support humanitarian program design in the coming period. Findings show that humanitarian needs are at an all time high, particularly impacted by shifts in the context in 2023, including the earthquake in Turkiye and the highest levels of violence seen across northern Syria since 2020. Millions of individuals continue to be unable to meet their basic needs.

The IRC’s Healing Classrooms programme trains teachers and support staff across the UK on how to offer refugee and asylum-seeking children a safe place to learn and thrive after experiencing conflict and displacement.

In 2018, the IRC assisted over 120,000 Syrian refugees and low-income Jordanians to access healthcare, protection, education and income generation opportunities. One of the recent changes that IRC staff have noticed is that Syrian women are taking on more of an income earning role than was the norm back in Syria and that this is creating changes in household dynamics.

The report draws on the successes of the Ahlan Simsim initiative - the largest Early Childhood Development intervention in the history of humanitarian response - reaching millions of children and caregivers across the Middle East with the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.

Refugees in Jordan--especially young children--have limited access to education. That's why the International Rescue Committee has trained Syrian refugees to teach them and vulnerable Jordanians how to use play as part of early learning. The program, "Reach Up and Learn," helps children ages six months to 2 1/2 years build their confidence, as well as language skills and other skills they need to thrive.

  Since the last European elections in 2019, the world has changed dramatically. The number of people in humanitarian need has more than doubled to nearly 300 million. Displacement has soared by almost 40% to 110 million. And the global population facing acute food insecurity has risen by 160% to almost 350 million.

No matter where women are, they are faced with threats of violence. Here's what must be done to tackle gender inequality - the root cause of violence against women.