This report contains the findings of a Response Review commissioned by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Secretariat to consider the response to date by DEC member agencies to the Syria Crisis. The Review was undertaken in August 2013 – around four and a half months after the DEC appeal – and involved visits to the two main refugee-hosting countries, Lebanon and Jordan, as well as interviews with those agencies working inside Syria. The main purpose of the Review was a learning one, with a focus on the response to the situation of Syrian refugees and displaced people living outside camps, scattered among host communities in a variety of living conditions.
