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.

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.