Country: Syrian Arab Republic Source: Medecins du Monde - Turkey / Dunya Doktorlari Dernegi Please refer to the attached file. Summary In November 2025, DDD conducted a Protection Risk Assessment (PRA) across selected locations in Aleppo and Idlib governorates, covering 11 sub-districts where DDD operates Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs) providing health, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), and protection services. The assessment aimed to identify key protection risks, vulnerabilities, and barriers to services affecting communities, with particular attention to gender-based violence (GBV), child protection, housing, land and property (HLP), civil documentation, return dynamics, and vulnerabilities affecting older persons and other high-risk groups. A total of 266 individuals participated in the assessment, ensuring balanced representation across gender, age groups, and displacement status. Overall findings indicate a complex and constrained protection environment shaped by prolonged insecurity, economic hardship, displacement dynamics, and weakened social and institutional protection mechanisms. Protection risks are multiple, overlapping, and often recurrent, disproportionately affecting women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, and households with caregiving responsibilities. Across many locations, harm is largely experienced within private and household settings, limiting visibility, disclosure, and access to protection services. In this context, Protection risks are no longer episodic; they become systemic, normalized, and increasingly household-driven.

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