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Lebanon Support is an Emergency, Recovery and Development information center and portal (http://www.lebanon-support.org) launched during the 2006 July war, through a partnership initiative between Handicap International, Mada Association and Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs.
Lebanon Support was registered as a National Non-Governmental Organization in November 2008, after being a hosted project by the above-mentioned partnership.
The organization started work as an information-sharing platform to coordinate relief and recovery efforts during and in aftermath of, the 2006 July war. Its activities covered Beirut and South Lebanon and emphasized on hosting humanitarian, recovery and civil society news, projects, information and publications, under the financial support of ECHO.
In May 2007, Lebanon Support dispatched the Direct Response Unit (DRU) in response to the Nahr el Bared crisis, and set-up an emergency information system in Beddawi camp. (The project was under the support of Handicap International and ECHO and in partnership with UNDP/RC.)
Since 2007, Lebanon Support has since been supporting and enhancing information sharing and coordination mechanisms in the aim of increasing efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian response.
By the beginning of 2008, Lebanon Support launched the first “Lebanon Civil Society Directory” listing profiles of more than 450 NGOs and International Organizations working in Lebanon, by February 2010, Lebanon Support in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs will release the second version of the directory containing the profiles of about 1,200 Organizations.
While on the field, Lebanon Support had expanded its operations in Beddawi Camp to cover early recovery activities, and was designated by the Humanitarian community as the Information focal point for the Nahr el Bared Crisis.
On the 1st of March 2009, Lebanon-Support launched the Emergency & Recovery Information System’s (ERIS) website: http://www.lebanon-support.org/nbc. The project, supported by UNDP/RC and Handicap International under the ECHO funding decision ECHO/LBN/BUD/2008/01004
Lebanon Support has also developed, implemented and is still implementing several other projects on a national level, naming a few:
- Lebanon’s civil society portal (continuous) in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs has the profiles of more than 1200 NGOs, hosts a library of more than 2,600 resources, and has a considerable visitor base (approximately 20,000 visitors per month), which makes it one of the top destinations for civil society organizations and development actors in Lebanon.
- Lebanon Support’s National Mapping of Vulnerabilities (2007-2008)
- Lebanon Support Security and Mobility Tracker (May 2008)
- Palestinian civil society directory with Save the Children, Sweden (2009)
- The Nahr el Bared Reconstruction Conference in Partnership with Oxfam GB and Transparency International (February 2008)
- Mental and Reproductive Health Survey in Nahr el Bared and Beddawi Camps in partnership with Welfare Association (2009-2010)
- Municipal Elections Referral System with Catholic Relief Services (2010)
Lebanon Support’s main operational framework is focused on information management, production and delivery, aiming at enhancing the knowledge base of civil society actors and development, recovery and emergency actors, to best respond to the emerging needs of the vulnerable communities in Lebanon. As it is within Lebanon Support beliefs, that an informed development and recovery and emergency community, renders it more efficient and more effective, thus enabling it to reduce the existing vulnerabilities within the country.
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