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Policy Brief – Navigating Social Assistance in Lebanon

Accountability, ProductsJanuary 22, 2026ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary This policy brief draws on the findings from a perspectives-based research study examining access to social assistance among vulnerable Lebanese households identified within the “bottom poor.” It presents first‑hand insights of how households perceive and experience social assistance programs, with specific focus on barriers to access, targeting processes, and…

Borrowing to Survive: Why Cash Assistance Needs a Debt Lens – and What That Looks Like

Effectiveness, ProductsJanuary 22, 2026ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary Debt is widely recognized as a double-edged instrument: at the macro level, it can fund growth and essential services, but at the household level, it often represents both survival and constraint. In fragile settings, where formal safety nets are limited, borrowing increasingly serves as a de facto social protection…

Between Protection and Resilience: Lessons from Cash Plus Programming in Lebanon

Effectiveness, ProductsJanuary 22, 2026ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary This Final Report presents the main findings of the research assignment conducted for Solidarités International (SI), in collaboration with Mercy Corps (MC), under the CAMEALEON consortium. The study assesses the relevance, suitability, and adaptability of Cash Plus programming in Lebanon, with a particular focus on the Beqaa region. …

Leaner Cash Coordination in Lebanon, Moving Forward – Policy Paper

Effectiveness, ProductsDecember 18, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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…

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

AccountabilityFebruary 11, 2025ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

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…

The Role of Misinformation on Cash and Voucher Assistance for Social Cohesion in Lebanon

AccountabilityOctober 31, 2024ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary The main objective of the study was to shed light on how misinformation affects different actors (refugees, host communities, beneficiaries, non-beneficiaries, policy makers, implementing agencies) and how this impacts their social interactions and behavioral patterns. The results of the study aims to help implementing organizations to reassess their communication efforts by understand how…

Lebanon’s Social Protection System Suffers Amidst the Current War: Urgent Action Needed!

AccountabilityOctober 14, 2024ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary This policy paper assesses Lebanon’s social protection response to the ongoing war and provides recommendations for policymakers to further develop this response and later improve the shock-responsiveness and -resilience of the country’s social protection system. The war in Lebanon has exacerbated the existing economic crisis, leading to mass displacement and increased poverty. The…

Building a Cash Plus response in Lebanon

EffectivenessMarch 9, 2023ShareTwitter-new FacebookShare-emailLink

Executive Summary Multi-Purpose Cash grant (MPC) is a pivotal instrument of the humanitarian response plan in Lebanon both in terms of coverage and financial volume. About 60% of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon receive MPC assistance. Maximising the impact of MPC can therefore have important and at scale effects for the well-being of Syrian refugees.…