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The monthly dashboard summarizes the progress made by partners involved in the Lebanon Crisis Response and highlights trends affecting people and communities in need. Social stability partners in Lebanon are working to strengthen local communities and institutions ability to mitigate tensions and prevent conflict, and inform the overall response on the evolution of tensions
Sector Progress
Social stability partners have set up a good basis for the sector to reach its 2016 target of providing support to key institutions and local stakeholders in all most vulnerable cadastres. Interventions are already ongoing in 165 out of the 251 vulnerable municipalities, covering the different tracks of work of the sector.
Partners have facilitated 72 local participatory processes, engaging municipalities and community representatives to identify priority needs. Most of them conducted directly by the Ministry of Social Affairs through the mapping of risks and resources methodology, to ensure that all municipalities in the 251 vulnerable cadasters have identified their priority needs. Over 2,000 people participated in such processes, 30% of whom women.
In parallel, other partners are continuing to provide ongoing capacity support through mentoring, training, or secondment of additional staff to municipalities, both in terms of community engagement and mediation as well as strategic planning (21 municipalities and 10 Unions supported so far). In terms of supporting the delivery of municipal services, 39 projects have been completed (primarily related to infrastructure repair and public & recreational facilities), which remains however far off the sector targets of 3 projects per vulnerable municipality in the course of the year. This is where the consequences of the funding gap of the sector are the most obvious.
As for supporting community tension mitigation capacity, the sector reviewed conflict mitigation mechanisms and local dialogue forums set up in the past two years. 65 mechanisms covering nearly 100 municipalities have been set up by 10 different partners, providing a local forum/committee to support municipalities on community outreach, mediation, and project identification. In Wadi Khaled, this support resulted in 8 municipalities agreeing to form a new Union of Municipality to improve not only their response to the current crisis but also the long-term development prospect of the area. An independent evaluation of 11 of such mechanisms integrate protection and service delivery within such projects and to work on linkages with other actors from the inception stage. The sector aims at establishing at least 32 more of these mechanisms in 2016 (12 newly established this year so far), and will gradually outreach to other sectors (Protection, Energy & Water) to facilitate linkages between different community mobilization initiatives.
Support to central level institutions’ presence and role at the community level, a new focus of the sector for this year, is also already well developed. 4 of the 8 governors’ offces are receiving support on coordination to better enable them to engage with the crisis response partners, and 23 of the 26 Qaza are engaged in an initiative to improve their monitoring and analysis capacity of situation on the ground.