Improving Living Conditions in Palestinian Gatherings Host Communities is a project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that falls under the UNDP Lebanon Stabilization and Recovery Program – Supporting Resilience in a Time of Crisis.
Active in the 42 Palestinian Gatherings across Lebanon since 2012, this project is designed to help stabilize and develop the resilience of these host communities, home to 110,000 original Palestinian dwellers (PRL) and recently some 44,000 Palestinian and Syrian refugees (PRS and SRS) as a result of the Syrian crisis.
Upgrading WASH Infrastructure
Better Community Mobility in Maashouk, Tyre
Responding to the daily challenges that older adults and persons with physical disabilities face in Maashouk, the UNDP project casted a concrete stairs connecting side streets in the Palestinian Gathering and located at the water network installed by the project in the last quarter. This intervention, funded by the Swiss Embassy ICD, complemented the rehabilitation of many alleys and stairs in the Gathering, allowing safer and faster mobility to all, including 1,230 Palestinian and Lebanese dwellers.
