Research Project

This research examines how humanitarian aid systems in Lebanon and Syria include or exclude LGBTIQ+ persons through everyday practices of aid delivery. It critically explores how vulnerability is not only experienced but also produced through institutional decisions, including targeting mechanisms, funding priorities, partnership models, and risk management strategies. Drawing on intersectionality, queer humanitarian scholarship, and critical humanitarian studies, the project analyzes how sexuality and gender become governed within humanitarian responses, and how certain identities and needs are rendered visible, invisible, or conditional. Using a comparative mixed-methods approach combining document analysis, surveys, and interviews, the research connects institutional frameworks to lived experiences of access, exclusion, and resilience. By situating humanitarian practice within broader political and anti-gender dynamics, the study aims to contribute to more inclusive and accountable approaches to protection in protracted crisis settings.