Open AccessHumanitarian Needs in Government Controlled Areas of Syria
Author(s) -
Shan Doocy,
Emily Lyles
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plos currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 2157-3999
DOI - 10.1371/currents.dis.f510b7b5f473a260a215744b4b85c38b
Subject(s) - receipt , government (linguistics) , humanitarian aid , socioeconomics , internally displaced person , needs assessment , geography , basic needs , food security , refugee , environmental health , business , medicine , economic growth , poverty , political science , population , agriculture , linguistics , philosophy , accounting , archaeology , sociology , economics , law
Five years of conflict in Syria have led to 13.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and 6.6 million internally displaced people. Humanitarian needs are ever-increasing as an inability to maintain humanitarian corridors and ceasefires continue. In light of the protracted nature of the conflict, immense needs, and dearth of large-scale data, we undertook this assessment to inform humanitarian response.