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Background:
As of January 2025, north-west Syria (NWS) was hosting more than 3.4 million IDPs, including almost 1.95 million living in more than 1,500 IDP sites across Idleb and northern Aleppo. After thirteen years of conflict marked by repeated displacements, economic stagnation and inadequate basic services, recent events that led to the fall of the government offer opportunities for potential returns of IDPs to their areas of origin.
In response, the CCCM Cluster, UNHCR, and REACH have coordinated a large-scale assessment on movement intentions within IDP sites in NWS. The objective of this assessment was to provide humanitarian actors with robust data on IDPs’ return movement intentions, timeline, and factors that would enable or hinder such movements. This assessment was conducted in collaboration with 12 CCCM Cluster partner organizations that collected data from over 4,800 households across 519 sites between 26 January and 23 February, using a stratified cluster sampling approach. Findings are representative at district-level, meaning they can be extrapolated to the IDP population across all sites within each district.
In parallel, REACH and the north-east Syria Sites and Settlements Working Group (SSWG) are coordinating similar assessments for IDPs in informal sites and emergency collective centers in northeast Syria. Findings from these exercises will be integrated into subsequent reports to offer a comprehensive overview of displacement dynamics across the region.