An analysis of humanitarian and health aid alignment over a decade (2011–2019) of the Syrian conflict

Table 1 List of variables included in the quantitative analysis

Domain	Variable	Source	Comments
Donors’ disbursements	Health aid	CRS	This variable was a sum of the following variables*: (1) Health General (121) (2) Basic Health (122) (3) Non-communicable diseases (123) (4) Population Policies/Programmes and Reproductive Health (130)
Donors’ disbursements	Humanitarian aid	CRS	This variable was a sum of the following variables*: (1) Emergency response (720) (2) Reconstruction, relief, and rehabilitation (730) (3) Disaster prevention and preparedness (740)
Humanitarian local strategies and procedures	Percentage of humanitarian plan coverage	FTS	The FTS calculates this variable based on the HRP and the reported funding
	Percentage of humanitarian funding through plans	FTS	The FTS calculates this variable based on the HRP and the reported funding
	Number of people in need of humanitarian assistance	PIN	This variable was extracted from the “People In Needs” data from OCHA
Use of local systems and channels	The percentage of health aid through a recipient government	CRS	These two variables were extracted from the CRS data where “recipient government” is named as the “channel reported”
Use of local systems and channels	The percentage of humanitarian aid through a recipient government	CRS

* The CRS database has a coding system that identify the purpose of the funding. Data on the destination sector are recorded using 5-digit purpose codes; it is a compulsory classification due to the specific areas that aid tends to support in the recipient’s countries. Thus, aid was allocated to the most suitable code available within each sector [45]. Health aid was outlined by DAC 5 CODE 120: I.2. to 130: I.3, which includes Health General (121), Basic Health (122), Non-communicable diseases (123), and Population Policies/Programmes & Reproductive Health (130). Therefore, health aid represented just non-humanitarian health. So, there is no duplication with humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid was outlined by DAC 5 CODE with 700: III, which includes: emergency response (720), reconstruction, relief, and rehabilitation (730) and disaster prevention and preparedness (740). These sub-categories have many health-related aspects in emergencies and humanitarian aspects. Nevertheless, they do not intersect with non-humanitarian health sub-categories in the health sector

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