I must say coordination is improving. Within the country we have to try to maintain solidarity in facing the Syrian regime because, for example, in the past OCHA has been very critical of the regime, and the regime's response has been to tell our other agencies, “We don't have a problem with you; we have a problem with OCHA trying to divide us.”
We try to maintain solidarity. We have a humanitarian coordinator on the ground in Damascus who represents the entire team in approaches to Syria to try to gain access.
But I must say it is always very difficult. The regime has provided us more visas, but it takes a long time. There are always delays in approval of convoys to reach people in need. I mentioned the Homs example. It took us nine months of negotiation to reach a basic agreement on the right of people in need to have access to assistance. As I said, once that operation started, we were bombarded. People were arrested. So frankly, we need to work together to maintain solidarity against this constant problem.
In the neighbouring countries, one of my main tasks is to try to pull the agencies together, whether they are working on immediate humanitarian relief for refugees, or whether we're also working to help the communities that are hosting refugees who also have considerable needs to have a coherent approach.
We're working on that. It is impossible really to distinguish between humanitarian action for refugees and help to communities, so we're trying to bring these together so whatever the budget source, we can answer the system coherently.
I would say coordination is improving. We are working with many donors who are supporting this initiative. We are working with the neighbouring countries to try to ensure they are able to lead the response in their own countries with our support.