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2025 REGIONAL 3RP – HYPER-PRIORITIZATION FACTSHEET
The magnitude, gravity and suddenness of funding cuts in the first quarter of 2025 have forced the humanitarian community to hyper-prioritize its response efforts. This reprioritization aims to ensure that humanitarians save as many lives as possible with the resources they have. Starting in March 2025, every country operation and regional response rapidly reviewed their already robustly defined plans and appeals to identify those people in the most urgent need of assistance and the most critical response to be mobilized.
- OVERVIEW
Fourteen years of conflict, displacement and economic decline keep Syria one of the world’s largest displacement crises. The December 2024 fall of the Syrian Government reshaped regional dynamics: over 500 000 Syrians have returned by the end of May 2025 and up to 1 million more could follow by end‑2025, prompting the development of a regional return‑preparedness plan. Yet some five million refugees remain in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Türkiye, where economic hardship, instability and resource shocks— from Lebanon‑Israel hostilities to Türkiye’s earthquake recovery—push refugees and host communities deeper into poverty. The 2025 3RP hyper-prioritization safeguards core protection and scales back non‑urgent activities.
2. Hyper-prioritization rationale: The 2025 Syria 3RP appeal reflects a continued and strategic prioritization effort, following a USD 1 billion reduction applied between 2023 and 2024. Despite the addition of a new USD 422 million return preparedness component, the overall 2025 appeal stands at USD 4.69 billion, which is even lower than the USD 4.88 billion requested in 2024.