About this assessment
While the numbers of Syria refugees flowing into Jordan have dramatically decreased in the fifth year of the conflict in Syria, there is no political end to the displacement in sight. The approximately 628,000 refugees currently in Jordan continue to face immense challenges, leading to high need, vulnerability, and protection concerns. These challenges result from protracted displacement, reduced levels of assistance and access to services, continued lack of access to sustainable livelihoods, and complicated registration procedures.
CARE’s 2015 needs assessment of urban Syria refugees provides an updated picture of these challenges, the refugees’ priorities and coping mechanisms and a view of refugee community-host relations. It builds upon 2014, 2013 and 2012 assessments to create a picture over time, establishing some trends and helping to understand how conditions for Syrian refugees and their hosts are changing. In line with CARE’s Gender in Emergency approach, its analysis highlights that the experience of war and displacement is impacting men, women, boys, and girls differently.
This summary report outlines the main findings of CARE’s assessment report, Five Years into Exile: The challenges faced by Syrian refugees outside camps in Jordan and how they and their host communities are coping.
The report is based on data collected from January 27 to March 1, 2015 in interviews with 1,300 families and focus group discussions and individual interviews with Syrian and Jordanian women, men, and male and female youth, and other stakeholders (CARE team members and representatives of local authorities and response actors).