There was a pledging conference that took place on the 15th of January in Kuwait. Almost $2.5 billion was pledged. Since that pledge, Canada has added $150 million to commitments for this year, which makes it one of the top donors for the Syria crisis.
At present, a very small percentage of those pledges have translated into actual commitments. For example, with regard to refugee requirements in neighbouring countries, the UN High Commission for Refugees has at the moment received about half a billion dollars for a $4 billion appeal, so we're still far short.
I must say that, even if we received 100% of that appeal, it would not meet all the requirements for people in neighbouring countries. We also have an appeal for $2.5 billion inside Syria and, as I said, there are millions of people we are unable to reach because of conflict and sieges.
So the needs are huge, and the organization with which I work, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is now cataloguing all those commitments made, and we are contacting donors to urge them to fulfill their commitments.