After more than a decade of conflict, Syria has the largest number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) people in the world with 6.8 million people displaced within Syria currently. 70% of Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance. Approximately 5.5 million Syrian refugees live in the five countries neighboring Syria - Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
GOAL is one of the leading humanitarian actors in Northwest Syria, and has supported conflict-affected people here since 2012. In 2023, 950+ staff managed a programme expenditure, shared with the Türkiye programme, of over €98M - reaching more than 900,000 people every month.
Whilst GOAL's main operations are in Idleb Governate, work expanded to Aleppo Governorate (A’zaz District) in late 2018. Programmes include Emergency Response, Resilient Health and Food & Nutrition Security. Operations are supported by senior management in Jordan, Turkiye and at the GOAL HQ in Dublin.
Our achievements
- GOAL has grown to become one of the largest providers of humanitarian assistance, especially in food security programming, in Northern Syria
- From April 2021 – 2022, GOAL reached one million people with medium-term monthly food assistance and supported 430,000 people with subsidised bread every day.
- We reached 287,000 newly displaced people with food and non-food relief items and multi-purpose one-off cash transfers in 2022.
- GOAL utilises cash and voucher distribution to allow households to meet their needs and survive shocks in a flexible and dignified manner.
- In 2023, 50,000 families in NW Syria were reached with multi-purpose cash assistance.
- 19% of those that GOAL reached with humanitarian aid assistance in NW Syria in 2022 were under five years and 20% of those reached had a disability.
Our story in numbers
2012
GOAL Syria begins
€93M
Programme expenditure in 2023
800
Staff across Northern Syria
2.1M
People reached in 2023
Stories from Syria
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