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OVERVIEW
Despite the governance and access changes that followed the fall of the Al Assad Government in December 2024, Syria’s humanitarian data and analysis ecosystem in 2025 continued to face similar challenges to that presented in the 2023 report, reflecting a combination of both structural and transitional dynamics. The previous data ecosystem report identified fragmented coordination, politicised data access, weak information-sharing practices, and insufficient anticipatory analysis as defining features of Syria’s information landscape (ACAPS 18/08/2023). Structural constraints such as fragmented data production, limited forwardlooking analysis, and incentives for short-term, proposal-driven assessments remain largely unchanged and aggravated by funding cuts, further reducing comparability and analytical coherence. At the same time, challenges related to coordination and data governance are increasingly shaped by the transitional context.
While coordination structures have formally shifted from a multi-hub, cross-border model toward a centralised country-level architecture, this centralisation refers primarily to institutional design instead of functional coordination capacity. In practice, national-level coordination has introduced new administrative bottlenecks, with system-wide ambiguity around geographic mandates, procedural frameworks for data management and information exchange, and uneven subnational implementation (KII 11/12/2025). As a result, increased access and centralisation has not yet translated into consistent or effective coordination capacity for data and analysis (KII 23/01/2026).
The 2023 report highlighted key operational recommendations: improve coordination, reduce survey fatigue, strengthen anticipatory analysis, and encourage greater Syrian-led research. Lack of incentives and clear governance, financial, and organisational capacity remain the main barriers to the full implementation of these recommendations. Given the structural nature of these constraints, the recommendations are likely to remain valid for 2026 and beyond. While political fragmentation, access constraints, and parallel coordination systems affected data collection and analysis prior to the change in government, political and humanitarian transition and funding constraints characterise this current period.