as of July 2017. Targeted Communities. # population in cadastres reached by SoSt Partners. SOCIAL STABILITY Q2 Dashboard
SOCIAL STABILITY Q2 Dashboard
January - July 2017
The monthly dashboard summarizes the progress made by partners involved in the Lebanon Crisis Response and highlights trends affecting people in need. Social Stability partners are working to strengthen local communities and institutions ability to mitigate tensions and prevent conflict, and to inform the overall response on the evolution of tensions.
Targeted Communities
2017 Funding Status as of July 2017
# population in cadastres reached by SoSt Partners
Received 20m
251 Communities in Need
Required $260.9 m
Reached
124m
1,857,308 827,568 20,042 88,595
Lebanese Registered Syrian PRS PRL
2,793,895 people
203 251 Targeted
Progress against targets - Activity indicators Activities
Outputs
reached / target
# local participatory planning processes conducted
82/ 143
0%
100%
Gender/Type Breakdown
61/495
Participants in social stability activities
USD 5.98m/ 49.5m
# new conflict mitigation mechanisms established
4/ 13
# communities with self-functioning conflict mitigation mechanisms
192/ 212
# municipal and community support projects implemented to address priority needs identified following participatory processes
18/119
# policy documents drafted by national government institutions to support the local crisis response
1019/ 5,000
# municipalities & Union of Municipalities (UoM) benefitting from capacity building support
USD invested in municipal and community support projects
# vulnerable municipalities benefitting from comprehensive social stability support (capacity building for dialogue + projects)
29/100
# community members and local officials participating in local processes
reached / target
Participants in participatory planning processes
27/ 61 16%
19%
# youth empowerment initiatives implemented
166/251
# youth engaged in social stability initiatives
81%
28,357/ 20,000 100%
0%
84%
Male
Municipal Officials
Female
Community Members
Analysis # municipalities with self-functioning dialogue and conflict prevention initiatives
Number of municipal and community support projects implemented
Youth empowerment initiatives
85 36 27
20
19
12
15 17
34
7 3
25 22
2 North & Akkar
Bekaa
BML
South
North & Akkar
Bekaa
BML
South
North & Akkar
Bekaa
BML
South
PROGRESS TOWARDS SECTOR OUTCOMES AND OUTPUTS IN Q2
Facts and Figures
251 Source: Vulnerability Map # cadastres identified as most vulnerable Partners in the Social Stability sector continued their good prog92% Source: 2017 Stabilization Survey ress despite funding constraints. The sector received USD 20 % of people who believe the Lebanese people have been good hosts to million in the second quarter, reaching USD 47 million if refugees since 2011 (93% of Lebanese and 87% of Syrian respondents) carry-over from last year is taken into account. This represents 91% Source: 2017 Stabilization Survey important progress compared to last year, when USD 7 million % of people who agree that the presence of so many Syrian refugees is were received in Q2 but still falls significantly short of the USD placing too much strain on Lebanon's resources like water and electricity 123,8 million target for 2017. Overall, 35 partners have been 3% Source: 2017 Stabilization Survey supporting 203 vulnerable municipalities and communities % of people who report 'no tensions' between Lebanese and Syrians in their area (2% of Lebanese respondents and 11% of Syrian respondents) across the country. While the geographic coverage of social stability partners remains extensive, it should be highlighted that only 18 municipalities currently benefit from a comprehensive set of interventions combining both tangible projects and capacity support for dialogue and conflict prevention. So far in 2017, 61 community support and basic services projects worth USD 5.9 million have been implemented supporting 50 municipalities in alleviating resource pressure. That said, the number of municipal support projects implemented between April and July 2017 amounts to only half of the projects completed in the first quarter of the year and is also lower than in Q2 last year. Part of the reason for this decrease relates to donor funding cycles. Gaps also persist regarding solid waste management interventions, with only one project completed so far in 2017. On a positive note, there has been an important increase in community support projects (from 5 in Q1 to 14 now) in Nabatieh, an area which was identified as critically underserved in the last dashboard. While support to municipalities has been lagging behind the sector’s targets for 2017, social stability partners have scaled up their work on local conflict resolution capacities. In 2017, 27 new dispute resolution and conflict prevention mechanisms were set up, compared to 15 mechanisms in Q2 last year. The sector’s strong point continues to be youth engagement with 166 youth initiatives established this year. Overall, 28,357 youth participated in social stability initiatives including various trainings which means that the sector has already reached its target for youth engagement in 2017. Building on the government’s youth strategy of 2012 and in anticipation of a forthcoming action plan, the sector is currently conducting an exercise of sharing challenges, best practices and lessons learnt between partners engaging in youth initiatives. These discussions will feed into a strategic discussion of the sector’s approach to youth.
CHANGES IN CONTEXT IN Q2 The first wave of results (June 2017) of the Stabilization Survey revealed that social stability and tension dynamics tend to vary more by region than by nationality, sect, gender, age or education level. Inter-community relationships, for example, are better in the North and Beirut and worse in the South and Mount Lebanon. The most striking difference between survey results from 2014 and 2017 is that the number of Lebanese who did not report any inter-community tensions dropped from 40% to 2%, reflecting a significant rise in host community fatigue over the last three years.1 Yet, the bigger picture is still one of relatively stable relationships, with most people (44%) reporting that relationships have stayed the same over the last three months. That said, the survey data was collected before the suicide attacks in Arsal on 30th June and its repercussions which have exacerbated tensions between displaced Syrians and Lebanese host communities - the results of the next wave of surveying are expected at the end of September. These tensions increasingly manifest themselves on social media, but also in daily interactions, with 21% of Syrian respondents having experienced verbal harassment in the past three months. This rise in tensions was highlighted at the High-Level Steering Committee in July, where Government Ministers emphasized the need to scale up investments in municipalities to tackle the increasingly prevalent ‘host community fatigue’.
Organizations The achievements described in this dashboard are the collective work of the following organizations:
ACF,ACTED, ANERA, AVSI, Avsi-Cesvi, Basmeh&Zeitooneh, CISP, Dorcas, GVC, Hilfswerk Austria International, Hoops Club, House of Peace, IOM, IRC, International Alert, Intersos, LOST, MARCH, MASAR, MSL, Mercy Corps, NRC, OXFAM, RMF, SAFADI, SCI, SFCG, SIF, Solidar, Solidarites International, UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, WVI
It should be noted that the methodology and sample size of these surveys (REACH 2017 and ARK 2017) differs. Results were also aggregated between answer options.
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SOCIAL STABILITY
2017 Quarter 2 Dashboard
Organizations per district The achievements described in this dashboard are the collective work of the following 35 organizations: ACF,ACTED, ANERA, AVSI, Avsi-Cesvi, Basmeh&Zeitooneh, CISP, Dorcas, GVC, Hilfswerk Austria International, Hoops Club, House of Peace, IOM, IRC, International Alert, Intersos, LOST, MARCH, MASAR, MSL, Mercy Corps, NRC, OXFAM, RMF, SAFADI, SCI, SFCG, SIF, Solidar, Solidarites International, UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, WVI ANERA,AVSI,Hoops Club, IOM,MARCH,MASAR,NRC, SFCG,UNDP
Akkar
ANERA,Hoops Club,IOM,MARCH,MASAR, Tripoli RMF,SAFADI,SFCG,Solidarites International,UNDP
El Minieh-Dennie
Zgharta ANERA,Mercy Corps, El Koura RMF,UNDP NRC,RMF,UNDP El Batroun
AVSI,MASAR,UNDP Avsi-Cesvi,MASAR,UNDP
Jbeil
El Hermel LOST,MASAR
Bcharre Baalbek
ANERA,GVC,Hoops Club,House of Peace, IRC,LOST,Mercy Corps,NRC,SFCG,UNDP
Kesrwane ACTED,ANERA,AVSI, El Meten Beirut ANERA,Hoops Club,House of Peace, MASAR,SCI,SFCG,UNDP,WVI MASAR,UNDP ANERA,Hoops Club,MASAR, Baabda Zahle ANERA,AVSI,Avsi-Cesvi,Basmeh & Zeitooneh, MSL,SCI,SIF,UNDP,WVI Aley Hoops Club,House of Peace,Intersos,MASAR, Hoops Club,MASAR, MSL,Mercy Corps,NRC,SCI,SFCG,UNDP SFCG,UNDP
Chouf AVSI,SFCG,SIF,UNDP
West Bekaa
ANERA,House of Peace,Intersos, MASAR,Mercy Corps,SCI,SFCG,UNDP
Jezzine OXFAM,
UN-Habitat, UNDP
AVSI,Hilfswerk Austria International, Hoops Club,MASAR,MSL,Solidar, UN-Habitat,UNDP El Nabatieh Saida
Rachaya
House of Peace
ACF,ANERA,AVSI,Avsi-Cesvi, Hasbaya Hilfswerk Austria International, CISP,Mercy Corps,UN-Habitat,UNDP MASAR,MSL,SFCG,UN-Habitat,UNDP
Marjaayoun
ANERA,Hoops Club, Sour MASAR,SFCG,UN-Habitat,UNDP
AVSI,Hilfswerk Austria International, UN-Habitat
Bent Jbeil
AVSI,Hilfswerk Austria International, MASAR,UN-Habitat,UNDP
Number of partners per district 1- 2 3-4 5-6 7 - 10 11 - 14
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