13 March 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunities:

Webinar: COVID-19 Recovery and the Next Stage of the Syrian Refugee Response After Ten Years, 17 March 2021 [info]

Lecture: Multidimensional Poverty among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and the Humanitarian-development Nexus, 23 March 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Bringing Social Class into Humanitarian Debates: The Case of Northern Lebanon (Southern Responses to Displacement, Feb. 2021) [Part one] [Part two]

A decade on, Syrian refugees mired in ‘silent war’ for survival (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]
- See also related statement by the High Commissioner.

"Palestinian refugees in Lebanon three times more likely to die with COVID-19," Reuters, 16 Feb. 2021 [text]

*Syria’s darkest hour is now (Chatham House, March 2021) [text]

Reports: 

The Darkest Decade: What displaced Syrians face if the world continues to fail them (Norwegian Refugee Council, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Destruction You Can't See: A report into the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms amongst IDPs and refugees from the Syrian conflict (Syria Relief, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Doing No Harm in Lebanon: The Need for an Aid Paradigm Shift (Refugees International, March 2021) [text]

Home Again? Categorising Obstacles to Returnee Reintegration in Iraq (IOM, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Pre-positioning an evaluation of cash assistance programming in an acute emergency: strategies and lessons learned from a study in Raqqa Governorate, Syria," Conflict and Health, 15:12 (March 2021) [open access]

"Refugee return and fragmented governance in the host state: displaced Syrians in the face of Lebanon’s divided politics," Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Violent Encounters and Social Status Shape the Conditions for Migrants Fleeing Civil War," Migration Information Source, 4 March 2021 [text]
- Focuses on Syria.

"Vulnerability of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to COVID-19: quantitative insights," Conflict and Health, 15:13 (March 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

The Role of the UNHCR in Iraq (Seeking Refuge, Dec. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

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