The 3RP is a country driven, regionally coherent planning process. It draws together the national crisis response plans for humanitarian relief, resilience and stabilization in the five most affected neighbouring countries to Syria, namely, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, in a coordinated regional framework.

The 3RP is a programme strategy to respond to refugee protection and humanitarian needs, and strengthen the resilience of individuals,households, communities, and state institutions to cope with the impact of the Syria crisis on its immediate region.
The 3RP is a broad partnership platform for planning, advocacy, fundraising, information management and monitoring that brings together Syrian refugees; impacted communities in host countries and their governments; donors; and more than 240 national and international development and humanitarian actors in the respective countries.

The 3RP covers a two-year period, 2017-2018.