Skip to content
Olive Branch
عربي

Our projects

The programmes running today are listed first. The archive keeps the project profiles from our previous website, and archived records do not indicate which programmes are currently active.

Programme areas

Our programmes

Olive Branch runs six programme areas, and we run them as one programme rather than six separate projects. Learning that keeps children in school, livelihoods that give families a steady income, civic space that lets communities organise and protection that keeps people safe all reinforce each other. Held together, they are how emergency relief turns into local services that last.

  • Children and Olive Branch facilitators in a storytelling circle at a community centre.

    Community recovery and peacebuilding

    Rebuilding trust, managing conflicts and restoring social cohesion inside Syria.

    Direct, community-based interventions that rebuild trust, support local mediation and conflict management, and mainstream peacebuilding across every other area of our work.

    See related projects
  • Children comparing answers during a group exercise in a colourful classroom.

    Education for recovery and stability

    Safe learning spaces, trained educators and education that builds critical thinking.

    Improving the quality and relevance of education, from non-formal and remedial learning for children who lost school years to building the capacity of educators and local learning spaces.

    See related projects
  • Athletes with prosthetic legs playing football on an artificial pitch.

    Youth empowerment

    Young people as leaders, decision makers and bridges between communities.

    Strengthening youth leadership and civic participation, and creating inclusive spaces for engagement through sport, culture, arts and community action.

    See the strategy
  • Women working at sewing machines in a production workshop.

    Economic empowerment

    Livelihoods, enterprise and financial skills that protect dignity and reduce tension.

    Supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, community-based economic initiatives, and the economic and financial skills that make households and communities self-reliant.

    See related projects
  • A girl speaking into the microphone during an open day session.

    Advocacy and civil society

    Stronger local organisations, evidence and alliances that shape policy.

    Building the institutional and technical capacity of local civil society, producing research and policy analysis, and sustaining alliances that influence public policy.

    Latest news
  • Volunteers handing school kits and toys to children at a centre desk.

    Refugees and returnees

    Protection and opportunity across the whole displacement and return journey.

    Legal and rights-based protection, economic empowerment, psychosocial support, and reintegration that connects refugees and returnees with communities inside Syria.

    See related projects

Archive

18 archived profiles. Descriptions keep the wording of the original records.

Selected archive profiles

Education / NW Syria

SLP Education

Education programme in NW Syria.

Browse the full archive

Work with us

We partner with organisations that fund and deliver programmes with communities in Syria and Türkiye, and we welcome volunteers who bring their time and skills.

Contact usVolunteer with us