Aid Fund for Syria (AFS)

Overview

AFS is a humanitarian multi-donor pooled fund designed to meet the critical needs of crisis-affected populations in Syria, while strengthening recovery and resilience to support the country’s transition following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.

AFS was originally established in December 2022 as the Aid Fund for Northern Syria (AFNS) to address urgent needs and critical gaps in northern Syria through a localised approach while serving as the contingency mechanism for the UN OCHA Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund. AFS has since evolved into a nationwide humanitarian fund with the objective of catalysing locally driven recovery, strengthening civil society leadership, and enabling the Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding Nexus after 15 years of conflict.

As a flexible funding mechanism, AFS supports collaborative partnerships across the humanitarian, development, public, private, and civil society sectors, ensuring principled action and laying the foundations for lasting stability and prosperity in Syria.