As the Syrian civil war grinds on and the Syrian opposition struggles to speak with a unified voice, a new institution has developed to help international donors deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance to areas outside Syrian government control.
Mark Ward, a senior adviser to the State Department on aid to Syria, told Al-Monitor in an interview Thursday [June 27], that the so-called Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU), has become a crucial partner in assessing Syrian needs and determining where supplies such as food and medicine should go.