On the 3rd of October 2017, UNDP Director, Ms. Celine Moyroud, and the UNDP team visited the Internal Security Forces Director General, Major General Imad Osman to discuss current UNDP partnership with the ISF.

The Strategic Partnership Agreement signed by the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2004 is based on a shared set of goals for advancing peace and security, human rights and development across the globe. A guiding principle of our work is to support countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 universal goals adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in September 2015 to achieve a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future by 2030.

In 2011, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the technical assistance of Earth Link and Advanced Resources Development s.a.l. (ELARD), prepared a Master Plan for the Closure and Rehabilitation of Uncontrolled Dumps in Lebanon.

When Tripolitans will visit “Mukhtars” of Al Qobbeh, Abou Samra and El Tall in Tripoli during the month of October, they will receive flyers with messages highlighting the importance of the role of parents in the education and schooling of their children. The idea of the campaign comes from the principals of six schools participating in the “Violence Free schools” initiative (VFS) implemented in Tripoli and its neighboring areas. The principals wanted to reach the parents of their students, through the local “Mukhtars”, to insist on the importance of parental collaboration and follow-up in order to protect the school from all forms of violence.

Tripoli. A city in North Lebanon that has long been linked to conflict, armed fights and intemperance. This reputation has a historic dimension in Tripoli; it dates back to the time of the Lebanese 1975-1990 Civil War. Yet, Tripoli was one of the few regions where violent conflicts persisted, more or less intensely, until 2014; in particular in two adjacent areas, Bab el-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, where the conflict can still erupt again any time.

Tal Abbas El Gharbi is one of the villages targeted by the UNDP project funded by the Government of Germany/KfW in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Water in support to host-communities suffering from the Syrian crisis. The project is reconstructing and upgrading the primitive earthen canals that are used for irrigation to improve water delivery.

The training aimed at developing and strengthening the skills of key government DRM communication professionals, at the national and regional levels in crisis communications preparedness, coordination and response. A number of journalists and reporters also participated in the training in an effort to improve information management approaches during times of crisis.

For the fifth consecutive year, UNDP Lebanon held the Social Good Summit (SGS) 2017 in Beirut, at Teatro Verdun on Tuesday. Around 300 attendees arrived at the Summit, among them university students, activists, journalists, opinion leaders, and youth from different parts around Lebanon.

The 2016 Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Status Report for Lebanon, developed and published in its second edition in 2017, highlights the status and the growth of the solar PV market by presenting and analyzing all its available data. The Solar PV Status Report for Lebanon has become a yearly collaborative publication reporting on the market’s growth for the previous year. This in turn will enable decision makers and stakeholders to align their efforts to continue supporting the market and sustaining its healthy growth.