The ongoing health crisis has had and will continue having unprecedented implications not only on the health system in Lebanon but also on rising socio-economic challenges. The COVID-19 has led to country-wide confinement and closure of all non-essential businesses. This combined with an economic and financial crisis sweeping across the country since October 2019, has already begun to lead to significant economic security disruptions for the most vulnerable, exacerbating the stress from 9 years of refugee crisis.
Programme Objectives
- Subsistence and economic activity support to MSMEs and the productive secto
- Support for the economic subsistence/expanding production to 28 MSMEs and cooperatives
Beneficiary Selection: MSME/cooperatives
- Technical Assistance in preparation for labour intensive schemes
- Short term labor force support for sustaining/expand the production
- Financial support for scaling up produce
- Support for the 40 farmers for improved self-reliance and/or increased income
- Technical Assistance in preparation for the labour intensive schemes
- Financial inputs to support local labour force, crop diversification and expanding
production
- Short term labor force support for sustaining/expand the production
Activities
- Creating farmers’ committee to coordinate on a regular basis and set a production plan between each area to avoid market saturation as well as to share best practices and advocate to the local municipalities/unions for the common cause.
- Create rural local produce markets - with the support of municipalities or Union of Municipalities where cooperatives, SMEs and farmers will have the chance to sell their products and limit the effect of middleman and distributors.
- Identifying new marketing channels including institutional procurement (hospitals, universities, schools, hotels, restaurants, caterings), specialty shops, and supermarkets, food aid distribution networks.
- Implement pilot regenerative agriculture projects, based on and scaling up the introductory trainings and activities.