The Independent Institution’s search efforts will focus on clarifying the fate and whereabouts of all missing persons in Syria, as well as enhancing Syrian institutional knowledge and expertise to address the issue of the missing and locally owned processes. 

This will include: 

• Implementing a search plan in coordination with relevant actors, and notably families,

• Developing and delivering context analysis,

• Conducting preliminary investigation/search activities, and

• Developing cooperation frameworks with Member States, international actors, and forensic organizations to support forensic-related activities, training search, data, forensic, legal, and psychosocial civil servants and professionals in Syria, amongst other efforts. 

This search fulfills the primary purpose behind the establishment of the Independent Institution, which is to uphold the right of the families of missing persons and the Syrian society to know the truth about what happened to missing persons in Syria.