As part of the Brussels VII Conference, Oxfam, ACF, Save the Children, DRC, NRC and IMC invite you to join a discussion on early recovery in Syria. Taking place in the wake of the earthquake, alongside the largest and least funded HRPs in history, the Brussels Syria Conference will be key. It has never been more critical for conversations to focus on how to provide people of Syria with reliable and equitable access to essential services and income-generating activities and provide them with dignity. This side event will explore what has already happened, and what more can be done to shift the needle on early recovery, to adequately address needs, prevent further harm and meaningfully build resilient communities across Syria in the current economic and political environment.
In 2022, a series of roundtables took place on Humanitarian Recovery in Syria – co-hosted by Switzerland and the UK - in Amman and online. Representatives of 14 donors and 7 INGOs participated alongside the Early Recovery Sector Coordinator. The Dialogue Series on Humanitarian Recovery in Syria aimed to demonstrate the benefits of recovery programming at household and community level through sharing donors’ positions on humanitarian recovery and learning from response actors working inside Syria, and to recommend concrete and practical steps to increase Early Recovery (ER) programming in Syria.
This side event aims to discuss the following key points:
1. To demonstrate the importance of early recovery programming in Syria and the critical need for scale up in the current context.
2. To identify common approaches and the gaps/barriers still to overcome.
3. To demonstrate “what works” with a view from inside Syria, addressing approaches to programming.
4. To share concrete recommendations and conclusions from the Dialogue Series on Humanitarian Recovery in Syria in order to identify what is needed to prevent a return to status quo. Panelists will include Luigi Pandolfi (ECHO Syria Head of Office), Moutaz Adham (Oxfam Syria Country Director), Jean-Raphaël Poitou (ACF Advocacy Desk Officer for Middle East), Dania Achi (NRC Area Manager for Area South), Louise Le Bret (DRC Syria Advocacy Coordinator), and Rasha Muhrez (Save the Children Syria Response Office Director).