One million jobs are needed for refugees from Syria to improve their lives in neighbouring countries which have borne the brunt of the refugee crisis since the war started almost five years ago, the head of a major humanitarian relief agency said. David Miliband, chief executive of the U.S.-based International Rescue Committee (IRC), said refugees have no savings left, are struggling to get aid and are increasingly unable to support themselves and their families. Many families have resorted to sending their children to work on the black market and financial difficulties also have left women and girls particularly at risk of being coerced into early forced marriage or survival sex, the IRC said. Major donor governments will meet in London on Thursday for an international pledging conference to raise new funds to meet the needs of Syria’s 4.6 million refugees and another 13.5 million who need help within the country. The conference, which comes as funding for the Syria crisis is critically low, is expected to discuss job opportunities for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, where more than 90 percent of them live. “This conference needs to end the fiction that the war in Syria is about to