Dr. Rouba Mhaissen is an economist and development practitioner with a focus on forced migration and the Syrian refugee crisis. She is the founder and director of Sawa Foundation (UK), and Sawa for Development and Aid (Lebanon).
Comment: Syrian civil society organisations remain underfunded and throttled by ineffective governmental and international bodies with tedious bureaucracies. Yet hope exists within the many Syrians working tirelessly for their country.
