This report brings together insights gathered through extensive desk-based research conducted as part of the Fair Game project 2024 across six diverse countries: Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, and Romania. The main goal was to explore the complex challenges that excluded and vulnerable youth face in these unique national contexts.
The research involved a thorough examination of existing interventions aimed at addressing these challenges. By evaluating their effectiveness, the study aims to establish a foundation for developing targeted training programs and recommending...
This policy brief was developed as a deliverable in the project “Fair Game: Theatre of the Oppressed for Youth Empowerment” funded by the European Union. It tackles the topic of bullying in schools and offers recommendations drawn from the field experience in Lebanon that focused on the methodology of Legislative Theatre to raise awareness on bullying in schools and advocate for better policies.
Findings in the "Analysis on Stunting Among Syrian Refugee Children" showed that risk factors perceived to be contributing to stunting levels among Syrian refugee children included those at the individual and household level with poor maternal nutrition, household food insecurity and inadequate complementary feeding practices as the factors perceived to be contributing the most to stunting among Syrian children. On the other hand, at the institutional and community level, market food prices, poverty, income, employment and livelihoods were the factors perceived to be contributing the most to...
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This policy brief examined the complex trajectories and mechanisms of the intervention deployed in the aftermath of the explosion raising questions of fairness and equality to the forefront of the humanitarian regime in Lebanon. Based on results yielded from fieldwork, we recommend the following:
Launching a consortium of CSOs, fourth sector civil society, and government representatives in order to set out a coordination scheme among humanitarian players for future crises. CSOs, fourth sector organizations in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs are...
The infographic [Shrinking space, constraints, and fragmentation: Lebanon CSOs civic & operational space during the lockdown of January-March2021] provides an overview of civic space and CSOs operational space in Lebanon during the Covid 19 related lockdown and state of emergency between January and March 2021. It shows that, although local civil society organisations and initiatives are the main responders on the ground, they have faced many limitations and restrictions, which have affected their impact. Data shows that interventions have overlooked some regions and specific groups. It also...
يعرض هذا الرسم البياني لمحةً عن الفضاء المدني وعن الفضاء العملاني للمنظمات غير الحكومية في لبنان أثناء الإغلاق المتعلق بكوفيد 19 في لبنان وحالة الطوارئ بين كانون الثاني وآذار ٢٠٢١. وهو يظهِر أنّ منظمات المجتمع المدني والمبادرات المحلية واجهت تحدّيات وقيود عدّة أعاقت تأثيرها، على الرغم من أنّها المستجيبة الرئيسية على الأرض. وفقًا للبيانات، فقد أغفلت التدخلات بعض المناطق ومجموعاتٍ محددة. كما تلقي البيانات الضوء على القيود الرئيسية التي تواجهها المنظمات غير الحكومية، وكذلك على التوصيات الرئيسية التي اقترحها المشاركون/ات بهدف التصدي للتحدّيات، كتعزيز التنسيق بين منظمات المجتمع المدني. أخيراً،...
