World Bank, The Syrian Conflict: Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment (2011–2024), August 2025, disclosed 21 October 2025
Source ID
SRC-057
Citation
World Bank, The Syrian Conflict: Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment (2011–2024), August 2025, disclosed 21 October 2025
URL or path
research/World Bank Syria Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment 2011-2024.pdf
Type
Institutional assessment report
Hierarchy tier
2
Published
2025-08
Accessed
2026-08-11
Snapshot
Held as PDF with a text sidecar of about 150,000 characters. Read repeatedly through the Part One reviews
Claims
CH1 the reconstruction-cost definition and the assessment's stated limits; CH1 the sentence naming the three documents that describe the sectoral costing as still to come, on the words 'will need to be supplemented by more in-depth damage and needs assessments, including at the sectoral level' (the continuity pass of 16 September 2026); CH11 l.91 to 93 (why no phased total: the Bank's 'detailed' and the three-way split)
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
THE BOOK'S CENTRAL DOCUMENT, AND IT HAD NO ROW UNTIL 11 AUGUST 2026. Added on the battery review's M1, confirmed by listing every World Bank row in this register: GRADE at SRC-019, The Toll of War at SRC-038, Devadas at SRC-040 and the climate publication at SRC-010 were all present and this was not, while INTRO-001, INTRO-005 and CH1-004 to CH1-008 cite it as opened and four of the introduction's six inventory figures rest on it. D-008 publishes this register online as the book's evidence apparatus, so for the life of Part One the apparatus omitted the document Part One is built on. The Bank's own preferred citation, printed on the copyright page: World Bank. (2025) The Syrian Conflict: Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment Report. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. The cover reads THE SYRIAN CONFLICT: PHYSICAL DAMAGE AND RECONSTRUCTION ASSESSMENT (2011 - 2024), August 2025, and the file carries four Public Disclosure Authorized stamps. Produced by World Bank staff with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. WHAT RESTS ON IT: the US$216 billion reconstruction estimate as a conservative best estimate inside US$140 to 345 billion, restated as US$141 to 343 billion in the detailed findings; US$108 billion of physical damage for 2011 to 31 December 2024; the December 2024 US dollar price basis; uplift multipliers of 2.1 to 2.3 times pre-conflict unit costs for buildings and 2.1 to 3.3 for infrastructure; the US$359 billion pre-conflict capital stock; the netting of reconstruction already completed at five per cent in six governorates; and Annex 2's restatement of UNDP 123 to 117 and UNESCWA 118 to 112 against the Bank's 108. Read repeatedly through the Part One reviews, including twelve quotations verified verbatim against the page in the Chapter 1 v3 review
CITATION PUNCTUATION CORRECTED 31 August 2026 at N12 of the Part Four Gate 6 audit. The date range takes an en dash, as the document itself uses and as approved Chapter 1 prints it. The v8 pass declared this row answered by its own en-dash edit and left the hyphen standing in the row.
LICENCE READ AT THE DOCUMENT 2 SEPTEMBER 2026 for Gate 8, authority audits/reports/GATE8_permissions_retrieval_2026-09-02.md. THE RIGHTS BLOCK GRANTS NON-COMMERCIAL REUSE ONLY and names no Creative Commons licence: this work may be reproduced, in whole or in part, for non-commercial purposes as long as full attribution to this work is given. THE STRING Creative Commons RETURNS ZERO HITS IN THE DOCUMENT. The Bank 2017 Syria report carries CC BY 3.0 IGO and this one does not, so the publisher name is not the licence. The document names its own permissions address, pubrights@worldbank.org. A separate clause puts the burden of clearing any reused component, expressly tables, figures or images, on the reuser; THE BOOK QUOTES TEXT ONLY, about 270 words of roughly 20,000, and reproduces no table or figure, so that clause is not engaged. BAND CORRECTED 6 September 2026, on BLOCKER 1 of audits/reports/00-introduction_v27_diff_review_2026-09-06.md. This cell had carried the single flat band over every asset class. The document splits it, at the executive summary and at Table 8, and Chapter 1 v38 line 17 already carried the split from the same document, so this row was the last artefact holding the flat form and the book was contradicting itself between its introduction and its first chapter on a figure both attribute to this document. The introduction's prose was corrected at v27 under D-199 and this row is corrected in the same remediation, because a bar lifted in a basis is lifted in the register. THE ROW WAS RAISED BY THE HARNESS AND CLEARED ON A FALSE ADJUDICATION: the v27 change report said this row carried no multiplier band at all, which was written after reading the row through a print that truncated every cell at 420 characters while this Notes cell runs to nearly 3,000.
D-304/D-307 series corrections (11), 18 October 2026: READING OF 18 OCTOBER 2026 (unit S3, FD-1): Chapter 11 l.93 (v42) rests on this document's limitations sentence, printed p.7, 'It does not provide detailed disaggregation by sectors or individual asset types and should be viewed as an estimate of the magnitude of damage and reconstruction cost', and on its 'three main asset categories' (txt l.234 to 235), which Chapter 1 l.157 prints. v41 printed 'has no sectoral disaggregation', dropping the Bank's 'detailed' at a claim whose register action (INTRO-001) is 'Quote, never paraphrase'; v42 restores the word and names the three-way split. The row's Claims column carries CH1 only and should add 'CH11 l.93 (why no phased total)'. The text searched in full on 18 October 2026 for a time profile of the US$216 billion ('phas', 'over time', 'time profile', 'per year', 'annual', 'by year', 'timeline', 'years to', 'disburse'): none; the one multi-year figure, 'approximately US$7.9 billion for recovery and reconstruction over the next three years' (txt l.2676 to 2677), is the 2023 earthquake RDNA's, another assessment.
18 October 2026 (REVIEW_08_11_12 R11-2): the Claims column now carries 'CH11 l.91 to 93 (why no phased total: the Bank's 'detailed' and the three-way split)', so the sentence above that it 'carries CH1 only and should add' the Chapter 11 line describes the column before this date.