In this research, the Voices for Displaced Syrians forum highlights the conditions inside Syria and its suitability for displaced Syrians to return. This report focuses on the voices, experiences, and opinions of Syrian returnees, IDPs, and residents, to establish whether or not the 22 Protection Thresholds established by the UN in its 2018 Comprehensive Protection and Solutions Strategy (CPSS) have been met. Those objectives must be reached before any justification of a move into large-scale, facilitated returns.
The report is grounded in original research and data analysis on the safety, security, and economic conditions within each of the four primary control areas in Syria [Government of Syria (GoS), Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the Syrian Interim Government (SIG), and the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG)], thereby providing NGOs and policymakers with the contextual information required to make well-informed decisions around the return issue.