HIGHLIGHTS:
In Lebanon this month, the Livelihoods sector reached its highest number of active partners to date with 23 organizations reporting implementing activities. The sector has doubled its progress over the last two months, with over 7,000 beneficiaries reached (which is already 66 per cent more than in 2015). There has also been a gender rebalancing of these beneficiaries. While traditionally 85 per cent of beneficiaries were women, the current proportion is down to 70 per cent, due notably to a diversification of the courses offered by partners.
Livelihoods partners in Lebanon also started planning for the sector strategy for the next phase of the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP). One of the main recommendations from partners was to use the “graduating out of poverty” approach to address the multiple constraints of the extreme poor and help them move out of poverty by sequencing support from basic assistance to entrepreneurship or other livelihoods support. This would also strengthen the link with the government, since the National Poverty Targeting Programme is already using this approach.
In Egypt, 67 people received training for livelihoods purposes in August. The Livelihoods sector also conducted a training on monitoring and evaluation to test new developed livelihood indicators in the field.