Analysis: Donors not walking the talk on humanitarian aid to Syria

Few humanitarian crises receive the attention and engagement of the world that Syria has. States - on both sides of the conflict - have clamoured loudly about the deplorable humanitarian situation there.

Yet, as the head of operations of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent put it at the end of July: “Nobody is really putting his hand in his pocket and putting his money where his mouth is.”

While funding has picked up in recent weeks, UN appeals for more than US$541 million to help Syrians in need inside the country, as well as Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, are currently 40 percent funded. (The appeals have been revised and increased several times).