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Syrian Arab Republic

The scale, severity, and complexity of needs across Syria remain overwhelming. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of a conflict marked by unparalleled suffering, destruction and disregard for human life.

2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview: Syrian Arab Republic

Regional Response to the Syria Crisis: Where we work

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Media Centre

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Syria: Cross-border response

Humanitarian Response Plan: Funding Update

HRPs are the result of OCHA’s work with humanitarian partners around the world to identify the most critical humanitarian needs, plan responses and determine the budgets needed to address them. Requirements for this year are outlined below.

Total Requirement

$5.4 billion

Funding to date

$411.1 million

Funding gap

$5 billion

Top 5 Donors

Germany $115.6 million (28.1%)
United States of America $54.6 million (13.3%)
European Commission $43.4 million (10.5%)
Japan $33.9 million (8.2%)
Canada $22.1 million (5.4%)

Top Funded Sectors

Not specified $173.3 million
Health $43.9 million
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene $38.8 million
Food Security and Agriculture $32 million
Protection $25.4 million

Syria Humanitarian Fund

Humanitarian Funds are set up for complex emergencies and support the highest-priority projects of the best-placed responders (including international and national NGOs and UN agencies) through an inclusive and transparent process that supports priorities set out in Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs). Figures below are for this year.

Total Amount

$40.5 million

Total Paid Amount

$39.8 million

Total Pledged Amount

0

Top 5 Donors

Donor Pledged Paid
United Arab Emirates $15 million
Germany $5.4 million
Denmark $3.6 million
United Kingdom $3.6 million
Sweden $3.3 million

Donors

17

Funding for OCHA Syrian Arab Republic

The following donors contributed earmarked funding for this year.

Total Requirement

$5,988,216

Earmarked Contributions

$1,303,263

Opening Balance **

$0

Total (Contributions + Opening Balance)

$1,303,263

Earmarked Donors

Donors USD
Canada 186,144
Estonia 53,248
Germany 214,362
Greece 21,413
Japan 316,667
Jersey 31,133
Sweden (Sida) 480,296

Unearmarked Donors

OCHA received unearmarked contributions from the following donors:

  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Private Contributions
  • Russian Federation
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Unearmarked contributions (or commitments) are those for which the donor does not require the funds to be used for a specific project, sector, crisis or country, leaving OCHA to decide how to allocate the funds.

** May include unearmarked and earmarked funding with implementation dates beyond the calendar year Excludes miscellaneous income (e.g. adjustments, gain/losses on exchange rate etc.)

Funding information from the OCHA Contributions Tracking System