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Shifting Sands: Changing gender roles among refugees in Lebanon is new study published by ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality and Oxfam GB. The study explores the different pressures facing men and women refugees from Syria living in Lebanon from a gender perspective. It highlights the gendered impact of the crises on women, men, boys and girls. Key research findings highlight changes in gendered norms, values and identities, as well as changes in levels of gender-based violence, protection and emotional stress. Moreover, the study depicts changes in gendered access and control over...

Working Paper | September 2013
A Changing Regional Order: The Arab Uprisings, the West and the BRICS by Christina Lassen
The Arab uprisings have thrown the regional order of the Middle East into disarray and are challenging traditional actors and alliances. Notably, regional actors, both governments and the region’s people, are driving developments to a much larger extent than before. This paper will explore how the European Union (EU) 1 and the United States, in the following referred to as “the West”, reacted to the Arab uprisings and whether the West has managed to play an active role and...

The Mid-way Transition House (Al Dar) is a free, safe, supportive temporary house for women at risk or survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV), both single women and teen adolescent girls, and women with their children. In this confidential safe environment, women can gather information and explore options with the assistance of trained, professional staff. Crisis counseling, information on legal rights, mental health support and access to resources are available. Attached is portfolio about the mission of Al Dar and its services.

Working Paper | September 2013
Policy-making in Lebanon: Potential Offshore Oil and Gas Discoveries by Jeremy Arbid
This report follows the conclusion of the thesis research entitled “Policy-making in Lebanon: Potential Offshore Oil and Gas Discoveries” carried out with support from the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, United Nations in the Arab World Program at the American University of Beirut. The research aimed to clarify the inner workings of the policy-making process in Lebanon. Using the multiple streams framework of John Kingdon (2003), the research...

DRC in Lebanon The Danish Refugee Council began operating in Lebanon in 2004. Since then, the organization has partnered with local and international NGOs to implement different programs that followed the country’s needs. Today, DRC’s main focus is on assisting those affected by the Syrian crisis, including refugees and members of the hosting communities. DRC also provides assistance to Palestinian refugees, migrant domestic workers and women at risk. DRC currently addresses the needs of four displaced population groups, as well as the affected Lebanese communities: -Syrian refugees feeling...

International Medical Corps Lebanon began providing services for Syrian refugees in September 2011 in North Lebanon. Since then, IMC has scaled up considerably, both geographically and in terms of types of services offered. In the health sector International Medical Corps is at the forefront of the emergency response effort, providing services for both registered and nonregistered refugees. In the first six months of 2013, through its primary, secondary and mental health care programs across Lebanon, International Medical Corps has: • Provided 53,885 primary health care consultations; •...

2013 كتاب | آب
آفاق الدولة المدنية بعد الانتفاضات العربية من إعداد طارق متري, عطالله السليم, عماد الحوت, رضوان السيد, محمد علي مقّلد, و آخرون
 

Working Paper | August 2013
Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa: Between an Arab Winter and the Arab Spring by Shaden Khallaf
The Middle East and North Africa region has been rife with volatility and turmoil for decades due to inter-State conflict, military occupation, intra-State power struggles, international sanctions, strained economic systems, social transformations, high population growth, varying illiteracy rates, high unemployment and underemployment, poverty, gender inequalities, extremism, and an overarching lack of transparency in dealing with these daunting challenges...

تقرير بحثي | آب 2013
حين كان الزمن الفلسطيني -. اللبناني جميلاً
 مقاربة منهجية تاريخية تأصيلية للعلاقات الفلسطينية– اللبنانية والحقوق المشروعة لفلسطينيي لبنان من إعداد حسين ابو النمل
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  تم تصميم هذا الدليل إستناداً إلى الممارسات الجيدة التي تم جمعها في إطار مشروع «دعونا نذهب جميعاً إلى المدرسة » الممول من قبل منظّمة اليونيسف وقد أُعد ليكون مرجعاً مساعداً في عملية بناء شخصية الطفل مساهماً في تلطيف العملية التربوية التعليمية وخاصة في البيئة المحرومة التي تفتقر إلى أبسط الوسائل الترفيهية والثفافية. يتضمن هذا الدليل نماذج عن نشاطات لمختلف المراحل العمرية يمكن تطبيقها بأقل كلفة ممكنة، إضافتاً إلى مجموعة من المراجع عملت عليها جمعيات ومنظمات عديدة للهدف عينه. بعد تحقيق المراحل الأساسية من المشروع تم إصدار هذا الدليل الذي يلخص كل الأعمال والخبرات التعلمية والنشاطات اللاصفية، نظراً...

This guide has been designed by Mada, in close partnership UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, based on the good practices collected within the UNICEF funded project “Let’s All Go to School Initiative”. It has been prepared to serve as a reference tool to help in boosting up the educational and pedagogical process and developing the child’s personality, especially in deprived environments lacking the most basic recreational and cultural means.The guide offers easily implementable low-cost extracurricular activities and presents the reader with an overview of reference material and guides on...

The Syrian crisis continues to provoke an ever increasing displacement across the border into Lebanon. According to the UNHCR, more than 569,000 Syrian refugees are now receiving protection and assistance from the Lebanese government, the UN and NGO’s. With no end to the crisis in sight, the number of Syrian refugees entering Lebanon is expected to rise to one million by the end of the year, posing a significant challenge to hosting communities around Lebanon. DRC and its partners continue to provide essential services to meet the needs of refugees and locals. DRC’s emergency strategy focuses...

Advocacy aims at creating or changing policies, laws, regulations, distribution of resources or other decisions that affect people’s lives and to ensure that such decisions lead to implementation. Such advocacy is generally directed at policy makers including politicians, government officials and public servants, but also private sector leaders whose decisions impact upon people’s lives, as well as those whose opinions and actions influence policy makers, such as journalists and the media. Advocacy proved to be integral part for organizations (CSO's) working on ending violence against women in...

Advocacy aims at creating or changing policies, laws, regulations, distribution of resources or other decisions that affect people’s lives and to ensure that such decisions lead to implementation. Such advocacy is generally directed at policy makers including politicians, government officials and public servants, but also private sector leaders whose decisions impact upon people’s lives, as well as those whose opinions and actions influence policy makers, such as journalists and the media. Advocacy proved to be integral part for organizations (CSO's) working on ending violence against women in...

Advocacy aims at creating or changing policies, laws, regulations, distribution of resources or other decisions that affect people’s lives and to ensure that such decisions lead to implementation. Such advocacy is generally directed at policy makers including politicians, government officials and public servants, but also private sector leaders whose decisions impact upon people’s lives, as well as those whose opinions and actions influence policy makers, such as journalists and the media. Advocacy proved to be integral part for organizations (CSO's) working on ending violence against women in...

Advocacy aims at creating or changing policies, laws, regulations, distribution of resources or other decisions that affect people’s lives and to ensure that such decisions lead to implementation. Such advocacy is generally directed at policy makers including politicians, government officials and public servants, but also private sector leaders whose decisions impact upon people’s lives, as well as those whose opinions and actions influence policy makers, such as journalists and the media. Advocacy proved to be integral part for organizations (CSO's) working on ending violence against women in...

This Regional Analysis of the Syria Conflict (RAS) is an update of the April RAS. The RAS seeks to bring together information from all sources in the region and provide a coherent analysis of the overall situation in the region as well as in each of the affected countries. While Part I focuses on the situation within Syria, Part II covers the impact of the crisis on the neighbouring countries. The Syria Needs Analysis Project welcomes all information that could complement this report.  

Research Report | June 2013
Arab States and UN Human Rights Mechanisms by Fateh Azzam
The revolts that have rocked the Arab region in 2011 have focused on demands for dignity, social and economic justice, and political freedoms. As the protests unfolded and spread from one country to another, their chants gained remarkable consistency in their rejection of unaccountable leadership and exclusionary economic and development policies that had failed for decades. The revolts were a wake-up call to all those concerned with politics and development in the region, that development can no longer be...

Research Study | June 2013
Irish Peacekeeping in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) A Historical, Political, and Socio-Cultural Study by Rita Sakr
This study explores Irish peacekeeping within UNIFIL, since 1978 through the expanded UNIFIL after its formation in the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war, from historical, social, political, and cultural perspectives. The methodological approach relies mainly on interviews with a number of retired and active members of the Irish Defence Forces, academics, and journalists as well as primary and secondary sources including military...

Policy Brief | June 2013
Lebanese Contradictory Responses to  Syrian Refugees Include Stress, Hospitality, Resentment by Mona Christophersen and Cathrine Thorleifsson
​This policy brief examines both impact of and responses to Syrian forced displacement in Lebanon and is based on fieldwork in the Sunni-village of Bebnine and a national opinion poll with a representative sample of 900.1 The mass influx of refugees is causing increased competition for scarce jobs in the informal sector. The Syrian refugees can combine aid assistance with below-average wages. As an unintended consequence...