Situated on the Lebanese-Syrian borders, El Qaa is the last village on the Baalbek-Homs road. In Arabic, El Qaa means “reassuring fields”, while in Syriac it is equivalent to “a wide valley or flat ground”.
Under the patronage of the Minister of Energy and Water, H.E Mr. César Abi Khalil, and the presence of Mr. Edgar Shehab, Assistant of the UNDP Resident Representative Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, and in the President of the Order of Engineers and Architects in Beirut, Mr. Jad Tabet, a conference was held on 23 March 2018 at the Order of Engineers and Architects, Beirut, to commemorate World Water Day which is celebrated annually on March 22nd.
On this special day, we are pleased to share with you the UNDP “365 Days of Gender Journey” newsletter 2018 issue.
Check out our work in Lebanon and how we contribute in development through working on the main focus areas: Social and Local development, Democratic Governance, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Energy and Environment & Response to the Syrian Crisis.
The second phase of the Women's Media Awareness Campaign aims at fostering political parties to endorse women as candidates.
The EUMedRail project funded by the Directorate-General for Neighborhood and Enlargement (DG NEAR) of the European Commission, has a budget of 2 million euros from 2017 – 2020. The project enables technical assistance to be given to the Euro-Mediterranean countries.

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5.9 million

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