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3RP Syria Crisis – Key Messages: Global Refugee Forum (GRF) - 3RP Advocacy Working Group, December 2023

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Background: The second Global Refugee Forum (GRF), taking place from 13 to 15 December in Geneva, is the world’s largest international gathering on refugees. The GRF presents a critical opportunity to advocate for the continued importance of the Syrian refugee crisis and share the wealth of good practices from the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) to inform other contexts.

Snapshot of the Syria crisis & relevance to the GRF:

  • The Syria crisis is entering its thirteenth year in 2024 and remains one of the largest refugee crises in the world. In the 3RP countries - Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt - the number of people in need has reached an unprecedented level since the crisis began, as the region grapples with increased vulnerabilities, growing poverty, high unemployment, security and instability, widespread forced displacement, and emerging crises. In 2024, over 21 million people in 3RP countries - Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt – are projected to need some form of assistance. This includes over 6 million Syrian refugees, more than 500,000 refugees and asylumseekers of other nationalities and stateless people, and more than 14 million impacted host community members.1

  • The 3RP is a unique integrated coordination framework, co-led by UNHCR and UNDP, bringing together around 270 partners applying a Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus approach to address refugees’ needs while strengthening resilience capacities of institutions, host communities and refugees. The 3RP has proven itself as an enabling platform for advancing innovative approaches e.g., through supporting capacities of local and national institutions, serving host communities alongside refugees to mitigate social tensions, introducing climate, environment, and energy considerations in the response, scaling up cash-based interventions, and placing a strong emphasis on selfreliance and economic empowerment efforts for all.

  • The 3RP’s innovative humanitarian-development approach was itself an inspiration for the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). In times of multiple and concurrent crises, the experience of the 3RP shows the importance of linking humanitarian responses to more sustainable resilience-based development for refugees and host communities, which at its base requires minimum protection standards being met for refugees to unlock development opportunities.