With the Syria crisis now approaching its 9th year, the country faces a new reality in which gender dynamics have been significantly altered.

Even as parts of Syria appear to be stabilizing, the situation has long since passed a tipping point in terms of accumulated effects, with
women and girls shouldering the larger portion of the consequences of the crisis.

The lingering ramifications of conflict and displacement are now so fundamentally ingrained that they require long-term and strategic solutions.