The development objective of the Municipal Services Emergency Project for Lebanon is to address urgent community priorities in select municipal services, targeting areas most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) preparing and implementing resettlement action plans for displacement of human settlements; (2) providing onsite sanitation facilities for construction crew; (3) hiring of local workers coupled with a counselling program; (4) warning to residents followed by effective management to shorten period of construction activity to avoid dust, noise, and vibrations; (5) applying the 3Rs principle (reduce, re-use, and recycle) in waste management; (6) analysing alternatives for best route selection to minimize any adverse impact for new pipelines; and (7) following standards and norms for scientific landfill design.
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The development objective of the Municipal Services Emergency Project for Lebanon is to address urgent community priorities in select municipal services, targeting areas most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees.
... See More + Negative impacts include: loss of asset, loss of land acquisition, loss of structure, loss of crops and trees, loss of income, and loss of livelihood. Mitigation measures include: acquisition of land and other assets, and resettlement of people will be minimized as much as possible. Where land acquisition is unavoidable, the project will be designed to minimize adverse impact on the project affected persons, or PAPs, especially the vulnerable groups; all PAPs will be compensated, relocated and rehabilitated, if required, so as to improve their standard of living, income earning capacity and production capacity, or at least to restore them to pre-project levels; Resettlement plans will be implemented following consultations with the PAPs, and will have the endorsement of the PAPs; and any acquisition of, or restriction on access to resources owned or managed by PAP as common property will be mitigated by arrangements ensuring access of those PAP to equivalent resources on a continuing basis.
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Weak economic statistics in Lebanon impede economic analysis and decision making. This paper presents a new coincident indicator and a leading indicator for the Lebanese economy.
... See More + A new methodology, based on the National Bureau of Economic Research-Conference Board approach, was used to construct these indicators. The indicators can be used as monthly proxies for the evolution of real gross domestic product with a relatively small time lag (four to five months). Notwithstanding the relatively small sample period, the results reveal promising statistical properties that should make these new indications valuable coincident and leading (one-year ahead) indicators for analyzing the dynamics of the Lebanese economy. However, given limitations on the length of the gross domestic product time series in Lebanon, the accuracy of these indicators in tracking the business cycle of the Lebanese economy is expected to improve over time as more data points become available.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS6950 JUN 01, 2014
The development objective of the Municipal Services Emergency Project for Lebanon is to address urgent community priorities in select municipal services, targeting areas most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees.
... See More + Negative impacts include: loss of asset, loss of land acquisition, loss of structure, loss of crops and trees, loss of income, and loss of livelihood. Mitigation measures include: acquisition of land and other assets, and resettlement of people will be minimized as much as possible. Where land acquisition is unavoidable, the project will be designed to minimize adverse impact on the project affected persons, or PAPs, especially the vulnerable groups; all PAPs will be compensated, relocated and rehabilitated, if required, so as to improve their standard of living, income earning capacity and production capacity, or at least to restore them to pre-project levels; Resettlement plans will be implemented following consultations with the PAPs, and will have the endorsement of the PAPs; and any acquisition of, or restriction on access to resources owned or managed by PAP as common property will be mitigated by arrangements ensuring access of those PAP to equivalent resources on a continuing basis.
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