On 31 August, 2012 the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) brought together participants involved in the response to the crisis in Syria to pool information and analysis of the humanitarian implications of the conflict. This event follows a previous Syria roundtable held on 15 June 2012 at the ODI. This second roundtable again brought together senior representatives of the leading aid agencies in Syria and neighbouring countries via video/audio conference with policy makers in donor capitals and colleagues gathered in London to explore the humanitarian response within Syria and consider the regional humanitarian dimensions of the conflict.