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Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, widespread conflict across Northeast Syria (NES) has resulted in significant displacement of civilians. Since the start of the war, an estimated 12.3 million persons were forced to flee, according to according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with 6.7 million currently internally displaced across the country. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain in informal sites and collective centres.
In addition, NES is currently seeing a spike in cholera cases. There are 9037 total suspected cases and 23 total deaths had been registered in NES in October.3 The risk of cholera spreading is high as IDPs heavily rely on water sources that may be unsafe.
Informal sites and settlements are those that do not have any formal governance structure or registration of inhabitants. To inform effective humanitarian aid delivery in NES, REACH conducts profiling assessments in informal settlements hosting IDPs to provide humanitarian actors with information on residents' access to basic needs and services. This factsheet presents findings from the 9th round of the informal sites and settlements assessment