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Leaner Cash Coordination in Lebanon, Moving Forward – Policy Paper

Effectiveness, ProductsDecember 18, 2025139Views

Executive Summary This policy brief examines the current cash coordination landscape in Lebanon, highlighting how fragmented governance and inconsistent approaches continue to affect assistance quality, equity, and efficiency. It outlines recent coordination reforms and identifies remaining gaps in mandate clarity, decision-making, and system alignment. The brief presents five priority recommendations to strengthen technical leadership, reinforce MPCA, improve…

Making Cash Inclusive Improving Cash Assistance for People Living with Disabilities in Lebanon

Accountability, ProductsDecember 18, 2025226Views

Executive Summary Since 2019, Lebanon’s protracted crisis has eroded livelihoods and driven much of the population into poverty, leaving many households reliant on social protection schemes and humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Cash-based assistance is especially important for households with people with disabilities. They face the same crisis-related problems as the general population.…

Navigating Social Assistance in Lebanon: Experiences and Insights of the Bottom Poor

Accountability, ProductsDecember 18, 2025183Views

Executive Summary Since 2019, Lebanon has faced a series of overlapping crises, including economic collapse, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beirut Port explosion, and the 2024 Israeli war, that have severely strained its already fragmented and under-resourced social protection system. In this context, social assistance programmes such as the National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP), and the…

Cash Coordination in Lebanon

Effectiveness, ProductsDecember 17, 2025182Views

Executive Summary This report offers an in-depth analysis on cash coordination in Lebanon, focusing on recent structural reforms, persistent coordination challenges, and opportunities for improved alignment with global standards. Drawing on 42 key informant interviews (KIIs), three workshops, and an extensive document review, the study critically assesses the evolution of Lebanon’s cash architecture, with particular…

Transparency and Accountability from the Bottom-up: Lessons from Social Assistance and Humanitarian CVA Programs in Lebanon

Accountability, LearningOctober 13, 2025768Views

Executive Summary Following six years of multiple protracted crises, a majority of Lebanon’s population is affected by multidimensional poverty, but social safety nets are the primary source of social protection for the poorest and most vulnerable and are largely dependent on international donors. In an effort to transition out of the crisis, the Government of…

LCAT x CAMEALEON Leveraging Evidence for Effective Cash Programming: Insights, Gaps, and Opportunities

Workshops & PresentationsMay 7, 2025469Views

Executive Summary This workshop aimed to bring together humanitarian and development actors to collectively examine and strengthen the use of evidence in cash programming across Lebanon. By showcasing key research from LCAT and CAMEALEON—particularly on informal social protection, the multiplier effect, and humanitarian cash systems in emergencies—the event will serve as a platform to: -Share…

Sustainability of the Social Assistance System and Linkages with the Humanitarian Assistance System

Workshops & PresentationsMarch 13, 2025411Views

"Series of National Policy Dialogues on Promoting Universal Social Protection in Lebanon" Policy Dialogue 1: Sustainability of the Social Assistance System and Linkages with the Humanitarian Assistance System Executive Summary Lebanon is at a pivotal crossroads in its journey toward a robust, integrated, and universal social protection system. Recent policy and legislative advancements—such as the…

CoP Linking CVA and Social Protection: Cash Advocacy Paper Presentation

Workshops & PresentationsMarch 12, 2025374Views

Executive Summary In this session, CAMEALEON presented their latest publication "Safety Net and Humanitarian Cash in the Emergency Response in Lebanon – What Can We Learn?", published in February 2025. The paper aims to strengthen humanitarian response efforts by offering key recommendations to inform the design and implementation of innovative policies and practices to improve…

Safety net and humanitarian cash in the Emergency Response in Lebanon – what can we learn?

AccountabilityFebruary 11, 2025548Views

Executive Summary Lebanon is facing a severe humanitarian crisis exacerbated by economic turndown, widespread poverty, and displacement resulting from the escalation of the hostilities into war between Hezbollah and Israel on September 23, 2024. A ceasefire was reached in the early hours of November 27, 2024, for a 60-day period. The dramatic wave of…

Providing Social Protection in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations

Panels & PodcastsFebruary 11, 2025340Views

Executive Summary Join our thought-provoking conversation with Philip Proudfoot (Institute of Development Studies) and Cynthia Saghir (CAMEALEON) as they discuss the evolving role of states in humanitarian response, building meaningful social contracts in fragile contexts, and developing lifecycle social security systems that shield citizens from conflict-related shocks. In an era of increasing global instability and…

“What’s Good Enough?” Webinar Series 3/3: Quality Standards

Workshops & PresentationsDecember 4, 2024327Views

Executive Summary The Global CVA & Locally Led Responses Working Group kicked off a webinar series titled “What’s Good Enough?” in September 2024, that aimed to discuss and have open conversations around key components of localization and locally led CVA responses. Each webinar brings together the insights and expertise of different stakeholders as speakers, but…

MENA Community of Practice on CVA Linkages to Social Protection

Workshops & PresentationsNovember 27, 2024320Views

Executive Summary This is the upcoming session of the Community of Practice for Linking CVA and Social Protection in MENA. In this session, we will have the opportunity to learn from the policy paper developed by CAMEALON and the Arab Reform Initiative: Lebanon’s Social Protection System Suffers Amidst the Current War: Urgent Action Needed! The policy paper assesses…

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Leaner Cash Coordination in Lebanon, Moving Forward – Policy Paper

Making Cash Inclusive Improving Cash Assistance for People Living with Disabilities in Lebanon

Navigating Social Assistance in Lebanon: Experiences and Insights of the Bottom Poor

Cash Coordination in Lebanon

Transparency and Accountability from the Bottom-up: Lessons from Social Assistance and Humanitarian CVA Programs in Lebanon

LCAT x CAMEALEON Leveraging Evidence for Effective Cash Programming: Insights, Gaps, and Opportunities

Sustainability of the Social Assistance System and Linkages with the Humanitarian Assistance System

CoP Linking CVA and Social Protection: Cash Advocacy Paper Presentation

Safety net and humanitarian cash in the Emergency Response in Lebanon – what can we learn?

Providing Social Protection in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations

“What’s Good Enough?” Webinar Series 3/3: Quality Standards

MENA Community of Practice on CVA Linkages to Social Protection

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