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Asma Ibrahim, an unemployed woman who lives in a cramped shack in northern Lebanon, has no idea why she was refused a welfare benefit for the countrys poorest people -...

The programme is to facilitate the transfer of N5,000 per month to beneficiaries, which is paid every two months

Re-globalization of macro-social responsibility Photo Credit : Greg Demarque Due to a combination of emergency needs and years of efforts, Lebanon has at the beginning of the year signed off with the World Bank on a USD 246 million loan for implementation of an Emergency Crisis and Covid-19 Response Social Safety Net project, or Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) for short [Editor’s note: the loan was voted upon on March 12th by the Lebanese Parliament]. Following more than a decade in which...

Lebanon Emergency Crisis and COVID-19 Response Social Safety Net Project (ESSN) 1. What is the ESSN Project? The ESSN is a US$246 million 3-year project that will provide cash transfers and access to social services to extreme poor and vulnerable Lebanese populations affected by the economic and COVID-19 crises. The objective of the ESSN is to arrest the increase in extreme poverty and to preserve the human capital of 13 - 18 years old children enrolled in public schools, through the provision ...