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The Syrian civil war has transformed state functions, facilitating predatory corruption and complicity in organised crime, with detrimental impacts on international aid, security, justice, and health.

In conflict settings, aid agencies operating cross-border face challenges to monitor aid use and impact, thus needing strategies to handle the inherent political, fiduciary, and human risks.

The Syrian civil war has transformed state functions, facilitating predatory corruption and complicity in organised crime, with detrimental impacts on international aid, security, justice, and health.

While petty corruption and bribery are decreasing under Syria’s transitional administration, its commitment to deeper structural reforms is uncertain.

After decades of corruption, exacerbated by more than a decade of war, can Syria’s new authorities fulfil its promise to reconstruct using principles of transparency and accountability, and rejecting corruption, cronyism, and bribes?