No one hears us

In the framework of the No Lost Generation Initiative, an Adolescent Assessment in Syria was conducted under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Development (DFATD) funded “No Lost Generation Advancing Adolescents and Improving School Water and Sanitation” programme, implemented in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The overall objective of the programme is to reduce vulnerability of crisis-affected people, particularly women and children. This assessment is intended to support the development of an appropriately tailored programme and well-informed strategies to support adolescents. The main areas of focus were priorities and needs, gaps and coping mechanisms, adolescents’ outlook and aspirations for the future, their role in the family and in the community, their engagement with the community and with which actors, and whom they turn to for support and to draw hope.