HIGHLIGHTS
• The rehabilitation of sub-standard buildings and weatherproofing kits have improved the living conditions of over 135,000 refugees and 8,000 Lebanese. The shelter sector is currently exploring options on how to make these two key shelter activities more sustainable.
• The rehabilitation of unoccupied or occupied buildings is time consuming, which makes landlords hesitant to allocate their buildings rent-free to refugees.
• Several fires took place in informal settlements, which resulted in loss of human life and the destruction of makeshift shelters. As a consequence, the shelter sector has decided to revise its emergency shelter response and improve coordination mechanism between partners.
• Refugees are increasingly moving from large informal settlements to smaller encampments, due to fear of being evicted. These smaller sites are difficult to identify and hard to reach. Thus, it significantly complicates the delivery of services to these individuals. Up to the present day, 1,200 small sites (with less than 4 shelters each) have been mapped, with numbers expected to increase.
