The private sector has long been a major contributor to humanitarian action. At the community level, businesses frequently use their materials and resources to aid people affected by crises. As local markets recover and supply chains are repaired, crisis-affected people are once again able to access basic goods and, in some cases, resume livelihoods. Large national, regional and multinational firms are also closely involved in supporting humanitarian objectives, whether indirectly, by resuming operations in crisis affected areas, or directly, by providing cash and in kind donations of goods or...
The humanitarian aid system is growing and expanding, and so surely its capacity to meet these challenges should also be growing.
Yet despite the enormous resources, in the more complex, less high-profile and difficult contexts, MSF teams in the field have seen that humanitarian responses to displacement emergencies have not occurred in a timely and effective way. This is especially the case in conflict areas.
These observations have prompted MSF to conduct this review, to better understand how the humanitarian system is responding to acute displacement emergencies. The review is based on...
Final Akkarouna activity report for the shelter project funded by OTI lebanon.
Project Budget 300,000$, funded by Office of transitional initiatives OTI lebanon to help and aid the syrian refugees have a decent shelter to live in.
This report presents qualitative data collected by ICTJ on how individuals in Greater Beirut talk about the Lebanon wars and the need for truth, justice, and an end to violence in their country.
دليل الجمعيات غير الحكوميّة العاملة على قضايا الطفولة في لبنان « يشكّل مورداً ريادياً في سياق العمل بإتجاه ضمان تحقيق المصلحة »2013-2012 الفضلى للأطفال في لبنان وتكريس حقوقهم/هن بحسب الإتفاقية الدولية لحقوق الطفل، كونه يسهّل وصول الأطفال إلى الخدمات المختصّة والمتوفّرة في مختلف المحافظات وبحسب الحاجات ونوعية البرامج والخدمات الموجودة والتي تقدمها الجمعيات والهيئات الأهلية والمدنية المختصة في مجال الطفولة وحقوق الطفل.
يرمي هذا المورد إلى تعزيز التواصل وتنسيق الجهود بين مختلف الفاعلين/ات والناشطين/ات في مجال حقوق الأطفال كونه يوفّر معلومات حول أماكن تواجدهم/هن جغرافياً ونوعية البرامج والخدمات...
Les politiques de coopération au développement des bailleurs étatiques placent de plus en plus le secteur marchand comme un acteur clé du développement, à la fois comme un partenaire financier ou opérationnel mais aussi comme un objectif en soi. Sa croissance dans les pays du Sud, que ce soit dans le domaine productif ou de la fourniture de services, y compris pour de la délégation de services publics ou l’offre de services bancaires, est considérée comme un indicateur positif. Les gouvernements des pays membres de l’UE cherchent ainsi à maximiser son rôle comme catalyseur ou «substitut» de...
This report compiles information on hundreds of incidents of serious human rights violations that occurred in Lebanon from 1975 to 2008, including mass killings, enforced disappearances, assassinations, forced displacement, and the shelling of civilian areas.
This thematic report provides an overview of available lessons identified from assessments undertaken concerning the humanitarian situation in Syria as well as the situation for Syrian refugees in host-countries.
This report is a summary of the presentations given during the regional workshop on free trade agreements in the Arab region. The meeting was part of the two-year project on the “socio-economic impact of trade liberalization policies on the Arab region”.
The EIB is the European Union’s bank. It is the financing institution of the EU founded in 1958 by the Treaty of Rome and owned by the 27 EU member states. The EIB is headquartered in Luxembourg and has a network of local and regional offices in Europe and beyond.
Over 57,000 displaced Syrians are receiving protection and assistance in Lebanon through the efforts of the Government of Lebanon and UN and NGO partners.
The National Report for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20) presents the current situation as is and highlights the achievements and failures, strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and risks.
It contains 8 chapters: 1) an introduction to the general debate on trade and development, 2) an overview of the situation In the Arab region, 3) the engagement of Arab countries with the WTO, 4) Arab countries and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, 5) Arab countries and free
This report will provide a description of the assessment conducted by IMC’s Mental Health and Psychosocial team in the region of Wadi Khaled following the displacement of Syrians into the northern villages between the Lebanese-Syrian borders as a result of the internal conflic
Conflicts, abuses, repression, and human rights violations always leave a bitter taste when proper mourning to achieve personal or communal healing is cutoff by indifference, and politics of amnesia.
