Ain El Helweh,Mar Elias,Beddawi, Burj El Shemali,Rashidieh,Nahr El Bared,El Buss,Burj El Barajneh,
>> Funding Sources:
International Organizations,Governmental bodies/institutions,International Donors,
>> Beneficiaries:
Children & Adolescents,Associations or institutional bodies,Local community members,Displaced people,Persons with special needs,Parents / Caretakers,Total Population,Municipalities,War affected people,Refugees,Poor Families,
>> Fields Of Intervention:
Civil Engineering/Accessibility,Education/Educational Programme,Education/Recreational activities,Education/Social Worker Training,Education/Training of Trainers,Education/Chidren/adolescents Programme,Education/Capacity Building Programme,Education/Trainings,Education/Research,Health/Psychological Care,Health/Occupational Therapy,Health/Rehabilitation Services for PwD,Health/Specialized health care,Protection/Mines/UXO clearing,Protection/Psychological interventions,Protection/Mine Risk Education,Social Activities/Inclusion,Social Activities/Awareness Campaign,Social Activities/Empowerment,Social Activities/Disability Focal Points,Social Activities/Advocacy Programme,
>> Current projects :
Project Name:
Accessibility Monitoring In Nahr-El-Bared Reconstruction Process
Start Date:2008-10-15
End Date:Unlimited Period
Description:
In September 2008, Handicap International, along with a group of other Palestinian, Lebanese and International organisations, established a Committee for NBC Accessibility in order to ensure an inclusive environment for Persons with Disability and Elderly Persons living in this future Nahr-El-Bared camp. In a first step, this committee is supporting the team of architects of the UNRWA Design Unit in defining the adequate technical standards to be applied in the layout of the 8 sectors of the camp to be rebuilt: public spaces, public buildings and private housing. Then, it will favour an adequate barrier free environment for every Person with Disability, depending on its type of impairment and its location in the future camp.
Activities:
1- Provision of an accessibility architect at disposal of the UNRWA Design Unit;
2- Establishment of an accurate list of all Persons with special needs to be rehoused in the different sectors of the camp;
3- Provision of a set of technical recommendations on the type of apartment it should be provided to Persons with Disability / Elderly people.
Objectives:
Ensure an inclusive environment for Persons with Disability and Elderly Persons living in this future Nahr-El-Bared camp.
Refugees/ Persons with special needs/ Displaced people/ Elderly people/
Additional Information:
David LIGNEAU
Head of Mission
Handicap International Lebanon
CHAGHOURI BUILDING
MEDAWAR STREET ,
Furn al Chebak
BEIRUT , LEBANON
TEL / FAX : 961 (0) 1 422 034 / 5
Mobile: (+ 961) 70 931 528
hom.hi.lb@gmail.com
Project Name:
Emergency and Recovery Information For Nahr-El-Bared Humanitarian Crisis
Start Date:2009-07-28
End Date:2009-07-27
Description:
The Lebanon-Support project was launched during the July 2006 war through a joint initiative between Samidoun Relief Campaign, Handicap International and Mada Association.
The project has developed intensively since its start, a turning point was the establishment of the Direct Response Unit (DRU) in response to the Nahr el Bared crisis in May 2007. The DRU managed to design, develop and implement efficient and adaptive data collection systems which provided detailed information about needs, population details, and Aid provision.
Activities:
1- Technically maintaining, updating and translating LS’s website
2- Maintaining LS’s Field Office (i.e. means for information & data collection and management, checking, cleaning and dissemination of Information)
3- Updating and maintaining UNRWA/LS’s comprehensive IDP and returnee Monitor (IDP Database)
4- Maintaining and updating of LS’s relief and recovery monitoring system.
5- Managing, cleaning, consolidation and identification of gaps and duplication, as well as the hosting of LS’s relief and recovery coordination clusters’ databases.
6- Support LS information sharing services through LS’s participation in cluster and inter-cluster meetings and the sharing of relevant information in these meetings.
7- Support LS’s monthly community liaison meetings.
8- Support LS’s focus groups on assistance provision or affected population needs and conditions.
Objectives:
The main goal of the project “Lebanon Support’s NBC Emergency Information System” consists of facilitating humanitarian and recovery coordination efforts through the development, maintenance and provision of high-quality humanitarian and recovery information services, consistently provided for humanitarian actors.
Partnership:
Fields of Intervention:
Locations Covered:
Beddawi Camp, Nahr El Bared,
Kadaa Covered:
Palestinien Camps,
Beneficiaries:
Associations or institutional bodies/ Local community members/ Displaced people/ Refugees/
This project aims at clearing the entire Nahr El-Bared Camp and adjacent areas of explosive ordnance as a precondition for the recovery of physical and economic infrastructure and allowing a safe and fast return of refugees.
The direct beneficiaries of the project are:
1– By the time of the conflict, the population of NBC and the Adjacent Area was around 5,553 families (more or less 30,000 people).
2– National and international organizations in charge of the reconstruction of the NBC camp and the repatriation of the refugees (including United Nations staff, contractors and others who have the authorization to enter the camp).
Activities:
Objectives:
1- Conduct intensive EOD operations through the provision of qualified, trained and accredited staff in support of the rubble removal teams.
2- Reduce the threat of ERW to the people accessing the camp and his surroundings through the provision of UXO awareness trainings.
Refugees/ War affected people/ Displaced people/ Local community members/ Associations or institutional bodies/
Additional Information:
David LIGNEAU
Head of Mission
Handicap International Lebanon
CHAGHOURI BUILDING
MEDAWAR STREET ,
Furn al Chebak
BEIRUT , LEBANON
TEL / FAX : 961 (0) 1 422 034 / 5
Mobile: (+ 961) 70 931 528
Project Name:
Psychosocial and psychological support for children and adolescents in Palestinian camps in Lebanon
Start Date:2007-12-15
End Date:2009-12-31
Description:
HI has been implementing psychosocial projects and providing psychological care since 2004 throughout Lebanon. Multi-faceted issues ranging from displacement from their homeland and living in exile, to poor living conditions in the camps, deprivation of rights and ongoing political conflicts leave Palestinian children and youth at a very high risk of developing emotional, academic, psychosocial or behavioural problems. These problems, if not taken care of at an early stage, will most probably result in more serious mental health issues in the future.
Activities:
Handicap International has developed a layered system of complementary supports that meets the needs of different groups. This multi-layered support system is based on:
1- The provision of individual psychological care for children facing psychological difficulties. These children are identified through a referral system between NGOs’ social workers, UNRWA staff and care centres staff. This system is functional in the North, and has been developed in Beirut and in the South during the year 2008.
2- The enhancement of technical and psychosocial capacities of childhood professionals. This is done through a support for our partners Najdeh and General Union of Palestinian Women, which receive children facing psychosocial difficulties in 6 care centers within Lebanon. Also, guidance and training sessions are provided to UNRWA teachers counsellors, UNRWA Health centres and NGOs’ social workers so as to enhance their capacity to cope with children facing psychological difficulties.
3- The improvement of the psychosocial environment of children living in camps, through the implementation of a number of games and extra-scholar activities enhancing children’s personal expression; and the adaptation of these activities based on each child’s specific needs. These activities take place in the 6 care centers and in UNRWA schools.
4- An awareness raising of Palestinian communities through yearly campaigns implemented within 5 camps, and through diverse Palestinian actors. In 2008, the topic chosen for the campaign is “violence”.
Objectives:
The main goal of the project is to promote psychological well being for Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon through psychological care and psychosocial activities for youth.
The project will support partners in order to achieve the objective in a long term sustainable view.
Partnership:
Fields of Intervention:
Education/Educational Programme, Education/Recreational activities, Education/Social Worker Training, Education/Training of Trainers, Education/Chidren/adolescents Programme, Education/Capacity Building Programme, Education/Trainings, Education/Research, Protection/Psychological interventions, Social Activities/Awareness Campaign,
Locations Covered:
Borj ech Chmali, Qasmiye, Rachidiye,
Kadaa Covered:
Beirut, Tripoli, Tyre,
Beneficiaries:
Children & Adolescents/ Associations or institutional bodies/ Local community members/ Parents / Caretakers/ Refugees/
Support to Service Providers in the Nabatiyeh Area
Start Date:2007-07-31
End Date:2007-12-31
Description:
The partnership between the Philantropic Association for Disabled Care and Handicap International aims to provide adequate access to services for PwD’ and PwI’ in the area of Nabatiyeh and surroundings through physiotherapy sessions, occupational therapy treatment, architectural modifications in houses of PwD’ to gain autonomy in their daily lives in addition to the distribution of assistive devices
Activities:
Objectives:
The partnership aims:
• To support PADC with the costs of an occupational therapist and a physiotherapist.
• To improve access to health and rehabilitation services for PwD
• To set up a referral system for Home accessibility modifications potential beneficiaries.
• To provide financial support to PADC for staff capacity building through participation in trainings.
• To help PADC with providing assistive equipments for the center beneficiaries.
Partnership:
Project in partnership with PADC
Fields of Intervention:
Civil Engineering/Home Rehabilitation, Health/Rehabilitation Services for PwD,
