Urban Profiling is an adaptive exercise, designed to draw a detailed picture of how cities are functioning, or not functioning, in a protracted conflict context. This urban profiling project aims to improve evidence-based humanitarian, stabilization and reconstruction planning in post-crisis recovery in selected conflict affected cities in the Arab region. It will strengthen regional knowledge of evidence-based reconstruction and recovery planning and strengthen national and local government capacities to plan humanitarian responses, stabilization efforts, and develop medium-term recovery plans and policies. As conflicts are becoming increasingly urban in nature, recovery and reconstruction activities become more complex. However, in many conflict- affected cities, there is a lack of information about the urban context for which recovery and reconstruction programmes must be developed. This project aims to address this problem by developing a baseline assessment of selected cities in conflict-affected areas in Yemen, Syria, Libya and Iraq through the urban profiling methodology which UN-Habitat has already applied in several cities in the region, and which will be tailored to the specific stage of conflict the selected city is in.