The Municipality of Aleppo faces the following administrative and financial challenges:

• A deficiency in the administrative procedures and some inconsistencies

• The loss of some expertise and the difficulty of building new expertise

• Lack of job stability in the application of the new organizational structure

• The inability to coordinate with some stakeholders (central level)

• Governing laws, decrees and resolutions

• Lack of resources

• The prevailing mentality and routine

• Lack of expertise and skills and difficulty in contracting experts