Protection Risk Assessment Report

At the end of 2025, DDD conducted a Protection Risk Assessment (PRA) across selected sub‑districts in Aleppo and Idlib governorates. The assessment draws on consultations with 266 women and men of different ages and displacement statuses to identify key protection risks, vulnerabilities, and barriers to services affecting crisis‑affected populations.

The findings reveal a highly constrained protection environment shaped by prolonged insecurity, economic hardship, and sustained displacement. Protection risks are widespread, interconnected, and often experienced within households, disproportionately affecting women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, and caregiving households. Key concerns include housing, land and property (HLP) violations, gender‑based violence, child protection risks such as child labour and child marriage, civil documentation barriers, and protection challenges linked to return and reintegration.

The report highlights how many risks have become systemic and normalized, limiting disclosure and access to services, and underscores critical gaps in protection, legal assistance, and psychosocial support. It concludes with clear implications for humanitarian action, emphasizing the need for inclusive, community‑based protection interventions that respond to both structural and household‑level vulnerabilities.