This study aims at providing an overview understanding of the roles that women and men play and the responsibilities, the vulnerabilities, the capacities and the statuses that women and men have in Syria through secondary data research and in the area of study in North Idleb through primary qualitative data research. The latter consisted of focus group discussions (FGDs), semi-structured household interviews with employed and unemployed women and men in 11 communities, interviews with members of three Local Administrative Councils (LCs), and rapid gender assessments of 13 public institutions in North Idleb.