Syria Crisis Common Context Analysis - Update

This report is an update to and should be read together with the Syria Common Context Analysis, published in June 2014. The Common Context Analysis was commissioned to provide a ready-to-use common understanding of the crisis in order to save time and resources when conducting evaluations and to avoid the duplication of efforts. This update covers the political events that took place between mid-2014 and mid-2015, and provides a brief overview of the humanitarian situation. While this update is by no means exhaustive, it offers an overall understanding of a humanitarian crisis that is deeply political. Developments from August 2015 onward are not captured in this update.