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Advocacy & Coordination

In addition to implementing humanitarian aid programs, SRD makes it a priority to advocate for the well-being of people in need. The success of our programs is contingent upon effective advocacy that improves the collective response to need people.

In an effort to achieve this, we amplify the needs by bridging affected populations and influential policymakers, participate in regional and international meetings and forums, participating public awareness events and engaging online campaigns.

Advocacy initiatives that SRD commits:

According to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), 485 medical facilities have been attacked in Syria since the start of the conflict, resulting in the deaths of 841 medical personnel and countless citizens.

Since 2013 when multiple chemical gas attacks occurred in Aleppo, Idleb, and in the outskirts of Damascus, there has been at least 1 chemical attack reported every year in Syria. These attacks create urgent, large-scale health crises that local health facilities are often unequipped to deal with. Obtaining much-needed medical equipment and medication becomes an overwhelming burden for healthcare providers trying to save the lives of the most vulnerable affected.

Focused assistance to the health needs of Syrian vulnerable communities produces tangible benefits to the broader relief effort.

The breakdown of Syria’s health infrastructure continues to acutely affect women, children, and the elderly as their needs are not being met. A lack of medical programs and personnel in Syria focusing on women’s and elderly health will have long-term economic, medical, and psychological repercussions.

Aid access constitutes one of the most crucial humanitarian obstacles facing Syria’s crisis. SRD advocates for improved cross-border and cross-line aid delivery, as well as access to hard-to-reach areas.

There is a scarcity of goods and services, including: food, clean water and healthcare. External humanitarian assistance is crucial because these necessities are inaccessible to the majority of the population. In addition, the lingering plight of over 200,000 Syrians trapped in besieged areas are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Several considerations support the notion that the relief effort must actively pursue methods to involve Syrians either via 1) Syrian-American aid actors with a network of substantial contacts or 2) Syrian civil society organizations focusing on relief and development.

Syrians are most in tune with needs on the ground and possess innovative insight regarding how to best administer relief. Humanitarian organizations with ties to Syria’s local populations are thus able to respond to the crisis in a manner that maximizes aid effectiveness and empowers communities.

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