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Understanding the Needs of the Community in water and sanitation sector

The three CS Guidance notes cover 3 essential areas; Getting started with CS in Lebanon; CS in Project Design Cycle; and CS Procurement, Recruitment, and accountability.

إنّ فهم الموارد المالية الخاصّة بمنظمات المجتمع المدني هو أمر أساسي لضمان اتخاذ قرارات صائبة في أنشطة منظمتكم وضمان توافق عملياتكم وآلياتكم المالية مع الخطوط التوجيهية والمبادئ المالية والمحاسبية، كما يمكن في نهاية المطاف أن يوفر لكم الدعم في ضمان استدامة منظمتكم بصورة عامّة. يشكّل هذا الدليل عن الادارة المالية أداةً أساسية لمساعدة المحاسبين والمدراء الماليين في اتخاذ قرارات مدروسة في ما يخصّ إدارة منظمات المجتمع المدني.

Understanding your Civil Society Organisation’s finances is essential to guarantee proper decision-making in your organisation’s activities and to ensure that your financial operations and processes are in line with the financial and accounting guidelines and principles. It can also ultimately support the sustainability of your organisation as a whole. This Financial Management Guide is a basic tool to assist accountants and financial managers with making well-in- formed decisions regarding CSO management.

يقدّم هذا الدليل أدوات تسهّل عملية صياغة مقترحات المشاريع والحصول على التمويل، من خلال توضيح ما يتم الاستناد إليه في أغلب المنظمات المانحة، مع الأخذ في الاعتبار الفوارق البسيطة بين مانح وآخر. يتألف هذا الدليل من قسمين لكلٍ منهما أهميته الخاصة. في القسم الأول، يتم التركيز على مفهوم المنح المالية، وكيفية تحديد حاجتنا للتمويل، وكيفية اختيار الشريك الممول لهذا المشروع أو ذاك، وكيفية استهداف الشريك وإقناعه بالفكرة المطروحة. أما القسم الثاني، فيستعرض المراحل الضرورية لبناء مقترح مشروع متكامل، والمحاور الأساسية التي يجب العمل عليها وآلية صياغة الأفكار والأهداف والنتائج المتوقعة، وصولاً إلى صياغة...

This guide provides you with the tools needed to facilitate the proposal writing process and securing funds, by explaining the criteria upon which most donors base their decisions to provide funding, while taking into account the subtle differences between one donor and another. In the first section, we focus on defining the concept of funding grants, in addition to how to identify our funding needs, how to select funding partners for a said project, and how to target partners and persuade them of the proposed idea. In the second section, we present the phases needed to formulate a...

Organization Work Plan and membership registration for the years 2020-2021

A 2-pages summary of OSAS organization profile.

This document describes the structure of our NGO along with our objectives, our ongoing projects and project's milestones.

Since 2005, several global processes have called for an integrated approach to climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

The Arab region lacks sustainable natural resource management, mostly in the areas of energy efficiency and its overwhelming reliance on fossil fuels for virtually all its energy needs.

This report presents findings from a survey conducted from 3-11 July, 2017 with three distinct refugee groups in Lebanon: Syrian refugees; Palestine refugees from Syria; and Palestine refugees from Lebanon.

The American University of Beirut Solid Waste Management Task Force has published a manual entitled Guide to Municipal Solid Waste Management. The manual gives an overview of the waste management situation in the country (past, current, and potential solutions) along with some helpful tips on how to transition to more sustainable practices.

This working paper seeks to document and analyse collaboration mechanisms between local authorities and humanitarian actors in addressing the Syrian refugee crisis in urban and peri-urban settings in Lebanon.

Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, 11 million people have been internally displaced or have fled to neighboring states. This has put an incredible strain on the hosting societies, particularly in Lebanon,Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.

In the absence of a clear national plan for Integrated Waste Management (IWM), and due to various political and governmental issues, Lebanon has had to face a serious waste crisis in 2015.  The paper scrutinizes events leading up to the 17th of July 2015, and the impact of its aftermath on Lebanon’s environment, infrastructure, health and landscape. Parallels are drawn throughout the paper to a similar crisis faced by residents of Campania, Italy.

This paper thoroughly analyzes Lebanon’s “waste profile” and benchmarks it against a spectrum of countries to further understand global trends in...

Research Report | April 2015
In this paper, we analyze the susceptibility of agricultural outputs to future climate change in Lebanon, and the extent to which it propagates to the economic system as a whole. We use a methodological framework in which physical and economic models are integrated for assessing the higher-order economic impacts of projected climate changes. By using this integrated modeling approach, we are able to quantify the broader economic impacts in the country by considering not only the temporal dimension but also the regional disaggregation of the results. Our estimates...

Working Paper | March 2015
Sustainable Transportation and Mega Sporting Events in Arab Countries: the Case of Qatar by Robert Wittkuhn and Danyel Reiche
​Qatar has successfully developed into a hub for mega sporting events; the most prestigious of them will be the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Qatar promotes it as the “first completely carbon-neutral” and “most compact” World Cup. Such statements emphasize a very small impact of transport on the event’s carbon footprint; but they also raise questions about the understanding and applicability of carbon neutrality. As motive for hosting mega events...

Working Paper | February 2015
Commuters’ Behavior towards Upgraded Bus Services in Greater Beirut: Role of Itinerary and Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Social Welfare and Transport Policy by Ali Chalak, Hani Al-Naghi, Alexandra Irani, and Maya Abou-Zeid
Climate change is one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world today. The transportation sector alone contributes to 22% of carbon emissions, of which 80% are contributed by road transportation. In this paper, we investigate the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and social welfare gains...

Working Paper | February 2015
Economic Impacts of Adopting a Sustainable Transport System in Beirut by Mazen Omran, Johnny Ojeil, and Youssef Fawaz
​The work carried out in this paper demonstrates the economic benefit of a sustainable transport system. It compared a scenario with and without such system, and calculated loss time as a result of being held up in congestion during key peak hours mainly due to relying entirely on the private car. The work demonstrates that in addition to reducing congestion levels a sustainable transport system will generate benefits related to travel time...