Lebanon: 2021 1st Quarter Sector Dashboard - Food Security and Agriculture
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Promote food accessibility; OUTCOME 3) Promote food utilization; OUTCOME 4) Promote stabilization.
1. Key achievements of the sector at the output level
The beginning of 2021 continued to witness the dire impact of the multiple crisis in Lebanon on vulnerable populations, with a further deterioration in the food security status of all populations. Twenty percent of Lebanese, 50 percent of displaced Syrians, and 33 percent of refugees of other nationalities are estimated to be food insecure.2 With the latest market developments, these estimates are likely to increase.
The expected modification or removal of the subsidies on essential goods (including key commodities and medicine) could further increase inflation. The lifting or removal of subsidies would not only decrease households’ purchasing power (especially for the most vulnerable),3 but will likely also lead to and increase competition ove
Lebanon: 2021 1st Quarter Sector Dashboard - Protection including Child Protection and GBV
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This dashboard summarizes progress made by partners involved in the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) and highlights trends affecting people in need. The Protection sector in Lebanon aims to achieve the following results: OUTCOME 1: Displaced persons from Syria and individuals at risk live in a safe protective environment; OUTCOME 2: Communities are empowered in creating a safe protection environment; OUTCOME 3: SGBV risks are reduced, and access to quality services is improved; OUTCOME 4: All boys and girls are protected against neglect, violence, abuse and exploitation (including prevention and response).
“Death by a thousand cuts”: Syrian refugees face dire conditions as Lebanon unravels
May 3, 2021 Share
Kamel, a native of Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province who uses a pseudonym to protect his identity, says he has been working in Lebanon’s sanitation and agricultural sectors ever since he completed compulsory military service in Syria more than 15 years ago. Like most Syrian seasonal and migrant workers, he spent part of the year in Lebanon and the rest with his wife and children in Deir ez-Zor.
Everything changed for Kamel and many others like him over the past decade as war in Syria brought an estimated 1.5 million refugees to Lebanon, turning one of the smallest countries into the host of the highest number of displaced persons per capita in the world and prompting successive Lebanese governments to pass a series of measures to curb the influx of more refugees and coerce those already here into returning to Syria. Lebanon also refuses to officially recognize t
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