Glossary

AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council [UK]

BICC Bonn International Center for Conversion [Germany]

CCCM camp coordination and camp management

CENTRAL Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations [Norway]

COR Commission for Refugees [Sudan]

COVAX Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access

CRR Center for Reproductive Rights [USA]

CRRF Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework

CSO civil society organisation

DGC Department of Global Communications [USA]

DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo

ERIC Education Resources Information Center [USA]

ESCWA United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia [Lebanon]

ESRC Economic and Social Research Council [UK]

FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [UK]

FDPs forcibly displaced persons

FSA Free Syrian Army

GBV gender-based violence

GCR Global Compact on Refugees

GDI Global Development Institute [UK]

HICs high-income countries

HTS Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [Syria]

IARH Inter-Agency Reproductive Health

IASC Inter-Agency Standing Committee

IAWG Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises [USA]

IDPs internally displaced persons

IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [Switzerland]

IHD Idlib Health Directorate [Syria]

IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development [Canada]

INGO international non-governmental organisation

IOM International Organization for Migration [Switzerland]

IRC International Rescue Committee [UK]

JFS Jabhat Fatah al-Sham [Syria]

JRS Jesuit Refugee Service [UK]

KII key informant interview

LARC long-acting reversible contraceptive

LERRN Local Engagement Refugee Research Network [Canada]

LMICs low- and middle-income countries

MISP Minimum Initial Services Package

MMC Mixed Migration Centre

MoU memorandum of understanding

NGO non-governmental organisation

OCHA Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [USA]

ODA official development assistance

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [France]

OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [Switzerland]

OPDs organisations of persons with disabilities

PPE personal protective equipment

PSNs persons with specific needs

SAMS Syrian American Medical Society

SDG Sustainable Development Goal

SEMA Syrian Expatriates Medical Association

SIG Syrian Interim Government

SII Serum Institute of India

SNC National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces [Syrian National Coalition]

SOHR Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

SRH sexual and reproductive health

SSG Syrian Salvation government

TC tropical cyclone

TRAFIG Transnational Figurations of Displacement

UK United Kingdom

UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party

UN United Nations

UNCRPD United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

UNFPA United Nations Population Fund [USA]

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [Switzerland]

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund [USA]

UNSC United Nations Security Council [USA]

US United States

WASH water, sanitation, and hygiene

WHO World Health Organization [Switzerland]

WRC Women’s Refugee Commission [USA]