The U.S. State Department's termination of over 10,000 foreign aid grants has crippled IRC programs, leaving 2 million vulnerable people without critical humanitarian services.

Words of outrage over the chemical weapons attack in Idlib, Syria must evolve into action—diplomatic action to protect innocent civilians and bring about a lasting and long overdue peace. Here are four things the U.S. can and must do now to help Syrians whose lives have been shattered by six years of war.

From the carnage in Eastern Ghouta to the hundreds of thousands uprooted in Idlib, the war in Syria has taken a catastrophic human toll as we mark its seventh year.

A compact agreement is an innovative model for bringing together donors, development and humanitarian agencies, the private sector, and civil society under host-country leadership to achieve sustainable outcomes for refugees and host communities. We offer three key principles and 10 recommendations for policymakers to build effective compacts for refugee-hosting nations.