This 'Supporting the future of Syria and the Region' Conference side event, titled Transforming the lives of Syrian survivors through reparation - Together We Can is an opportunity to highlight the right of survivors to reparation – which must be provided urgently - and showcase the transformative impact that reparative measures co-created not only for but with survivors can have on their lives. Options for the scaling up and financing of such measures, including through the repurposing of seized, frozen, and confiscated assets from the perpetrators of the violations and/or fines for breach of sanctions regimes imposed on their associates will also be discussed.

The objectives of the event are four-fold, and include:

1. Raising awareness of survivors’ right to reparation and the need to create and finance a fund which addresses survivors’ harms and urgent needs. 
2. Demonstrating the transformative impact of GSF’s Interim Reparative Measures project, which serves as proof of concept for scaling up of these measures. 
3. Identifying, articulating and galvanising support for a survivor-centred, evidence-based approach to the establishment of a fund for Syrian survivors and victims.
4. Discussing the repurposing of perpetrators’ (and their enablers’) assets as a funding source for reparative measures and reparation.