Objective: Forest and Landscape Restoration initiatives/programs are implemented in Lebanon with an integrated landscape approach taking into consideration the multiple land uses and the diverse interests of the local stakeholders    

Outputs:

1.     Regional platforms/ networks / initiatives are strengthened to promote more efficiently both preparation and implementation of large scale FLR programmes to achieve the Paris Agreement and the Bonn Challenge

2.     Large scale national FLR plans / programmes are effectively implemented in the six targeted countries in order to maximize the contribution of FLR options to achieve the Paris Agreement and the Bonn Challenge

Donor: International Climate Initiative (German Federal Ministry for Environment)

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Civil Society

Duration: 2019-2022

Budget: 450 000 USD

Code: GCP/INT/296/GER (BMU)

Objective: The assistance thru these projects has several objectives: 1) Updating its strategy, preparing a new Action Plan for 2019-2023 and proposing the Organizational restructuring of the ministry;

 2) Providing the technical assistance to assess the agricultural sector support programmes;

 3) Assisting in developing and efficient subsidies system within the agricultural sector review; and 4) Developing a Monitoring plan for the SDGs and their integration in MoA planning.

Outputs:

1.      Agriculture Sector Review for Lebanon

2.      Ministry of Agriculture National Strategy and Agricultural Planning

3.     Proposal for the organizational restructuring of the Ministry of Agriculture

4.      List of selected targets for the agriculture in Lebanon in alignment with the SDGs with the related monitoring plan

5.      Review of the agricultural sector support programmes.

Beneficiaries:  Direct beneficiaries are the Ministry of Agriculture and the related Directorates and Institutes, other ministries and public administrations related or interconnected to the sector.

Donor: FAO Technical Cooperation Programme

Implementing Partners: FAO in close collaboration with MoA and the World Bank.

Duration: 2019-2020

Budget: USD 217 000

Code: TCP/LEB/3702 C2; TCP/LEB/3705/C3; and TCP/LEB/3706/C4

Objective: The project objective is to strengthen regional capacities, to enhance regional information exchange, and to build the framework for the adaptation of pathways for increasing water productivity in selected farming systems of the beneficiary countries. 

Outputs:

1.    Effective operational framework on water productivity determinations (bio-physical and economical), through field and satellite Remote Sensing, established;

2.     Field validation of Remote Sensing data on water productivity;

3.     Analysis of results and identification of good agricultural practices and technologies to increase water productivity and to be adopted by each countries.

Beneficiaries: The ministry of Agriculture, the ministry of Energy and Water, and the National Multi-Disciplinary Team on Water Scarcity Initiative. Local academic and research institutions will also benefit in addition to local communities, donors and NGOs. 

Donor: FAO

Implementing Partners: FAO in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Energy and Water.

Duration: 2017-2019

Budget: USD 444,000 (for the whole Region)

Code: TCP/RAB/3602

Objective: Strengthened producer organizations (POs) can help SSFF overcome the barriers they face and develop innovative organizational arrangements that broaden their capabilities. Given the wide range of services that inclusive and efficient POs can provide to their members, these organizations are essential for a thriving agricultural sector and for boosting rural economies. They enable farmers to benefit from an array of services including access and management of natural resources, markets, credits, inputs and information as well as influencing policy-making processes. POs are a vehicle to encourage rural populations to remain in their territories instead of migrating to urban centers or to other countries. For this, governments have a critical role to play in creating conducive conditions by enabling collective action of producers to form and thrive. These conditions include developing transparent and sound regulatory frameworks, a conducive investment climate, as well as facilitating the creation of frameworks and policy dialogue spaces between governments and various stakeholders.

Outputs

1. Enhanced institutional environment to facilitate the improvement and boosting of POs

2.   Knowledge and awareness on the state of POs in each country is created

3. Strengthened POs to boost the development of small-scale family farming organizations 

Beneficiaries: The direct beneficiaries of this TCP project are the targeted POs and their members as well as decision makers in the main Ministry partners.

Donor: FAO

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture

Duration: 1 Apr 2017 – 31 Dec 2019

Budget: USD 400,000 (for 3 countries)

Code: TCP/RAB/3603

Objective: The overall objective of this Regional Project is to enhance national capacities for fisheries management by promoting technical and institutional capacity development. The project will strengthen as well sub-regional cooperation for the management of shared resources in the Eastern Mediterranean through jointly addressing pressing issues affecting the sustainability of fisheries.

Outputs:

1. National and sub-regional capacity (administration, stakeholders, research institutions) for a proper implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), including the identification of fisheries management strategies at national level, in line with sub-regional and regional policies agreed at the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) is strengthened;

2.  Capacity for fisheries monitoring, research and the preparation of scientific advice of the GFCM for fisheries management improved;

3. Regional cooperation and coordination in support of fisheries management advice, research, and capacity development is enhanced.

Beneficiaries:  Direct beneficiaries are the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), and other ministries: transport and public works and the ministry of environment.

Donor: European Union

Implementing Partners: FAO in close collaboration with MoA

Duration: 2019-2020 

Budget: USD 670 520

 Code: GCP/INT/363/EC (EastMed)

Objective: The provision of effective means to monitor water resources in the North Lebanon Water Establishment, thus supporting its institutional decision- making and resources planning for IWRM, and developing its capacity to raise institutional performance. 2) The provision of effective mechanisms to enable data sharing amongst stakeholders and informed decisions transfer to end users

Outputs:

1.     Real time monitoring at key locations

2.      Established water quality monitoring at key locations within a pilot watershed

3.     Water Establishment/Watershed Prototype Monitoring System is developed, management authorities empowered, and their capacity is enhanced to operate the system - including preparation of a business plan to operate the monitoring system

4.     Water accounting tool implemented

5.  Informed decision transferred to end users to improve capacity for enhanced crop water productivity

6.      Scaled-up approach through stakeholder platforms and data-sharing.

Beneficiaries:

Direct beneficiaries: the Water Establishments and the MoEW who will benefit from increased capacity and improved decision-making support through greater access to information and data. These beneficiaries can be divided in to two main groups: Policy-makers and decision-makers; and technical experts and staff at relevant ministries, research institutions and universities.

Indirect beneficiaries also include those who will benefit from informed water decision-making that is based on better access to water data at the Water Establishment level. This group includes water users across all sectors, but in particular farmers and those exposed to the environmental risks of unaccounted for water quality problems.

Donor: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Energy and water (MoEW), North Lebanon Water Establishment (NLWE)

Duration: 4 years in total (1 year non cost extension)

Budget: USD 2,432,130

Code: GCP/LEB/029/SWI

Objective: Improved livelihood opportunities of vulnerable small-scale producers and smallholder entrepreneurs working in agribusiness, forest, and range-based production within rural areas

Outputs: 

1.     Business challenges, needs, and weaknesses of start-ups working in agribusiness, forests and rangelands-based are assessed.

2.     Start-ups developed their entrepreneurial and business skills

3.     Start-ups apply institutional guidelines and procedures to manage their businesses effectively. 

4.  Multi-actors academy to provide technical assistance and capacity building to rural start-up entrepreneurs is established

Beneficiaries: 12 Lebanese start-ups working in agribusiness and forestry sectors

Donor: FAO Technical Cooperation Program

Duration: 2 years

Budget: USD 200,000

Code: TCP/LEB/3704 

Objective: Reduction of the underground, Litani River and Qaraoun Lake water pollution through promotion and application of IPM-Good agricultural practices by farmers in Upper Litani basin and Qaraoun Lake.

Outputs:

1.  Current agricultural practices and farmers’ (men and women) roles and knowledge in the project area are analysed and assessed, and good agricultural practices including IPM programs are developed.

2.  The capacity of MoA professionals/facilitators, other stakeholders and farmers developed in IPM-Good agricultural practices.

3.  Good agricultural practices including IPM programs tested and implemented.

4.    Project progress is monitored and evaluated, and measures for sustaining the outcomes are well-defined

Beneficiaries: Ministry of Agriculture & other stakeholders, Farmers in the Cazas of west Bekaa and Zahle.

Donor: Government of Lebanon through a Loan from the World Bank

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR).

Duration: 4 Years, from 9 June 2017 to 8 June 2021

Budget: USD 1 500 000

Code: UTF/LEB/028/LEB

Objective: Reduction of the underground, Litani River and Qaraoun lake water pollution through promotion and application of IPM-Good agricultural practices by farmers in Upper Litani basin and Qaraoun Lake.

Outputs:

1.   Information on current agricultural practices in the project area is collected and analyzed

2.   Training curricula through identification of ICM practices developed.

3.   Build the technical capacity for MoA technical and extension staff, other stakeholders, and    farmers to adopt ICM practices.

4.   Improve capacity of farmers through ICM tactics, tested in pilot plots and implemented by target farmers.

Beneficiaries: Ministry of Agriculture and other stakeholders, Farmers in the Caza of Baalbeck.

Donor: Norwegian Embassy

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture

Duration: 2 Years from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020

Budget: USD 722 892

Code: GCP/LEB/032/NOR

Objective: Establish a food contamination monitoring system prototype in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Outputs:

1. Risk associated with primary agricultural commodities and food products are assessed and contaminants to be monitored in the program are selected.

2. A sustainable food contamination monitoring system into the organizational structure of MoA is incorporated.

3. A monitoring program for agro-food contaminants, biological and chemical including pesticide residues, is designed and implemented.

Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries are the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), the consumers, Universities and Research institutes, Laboratories. The indirect beneficiaries are : farmers, agro-food processors, agro-food traders and other Ministries.

Donor: FAO

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture

Duration: 1 Dec 2017 – 31 Dec 2019

Budget: USD 275,000

Code: TCP/LEB/3603

Objective: Establish a food contamination monitoring system prototype in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Outputs:

1. Risk associated with primary agricultural commodities and food products are assessed and contaminants to be monitored in the program are selected.

2. A sustainable food contamination monitoring system into the organizational structure of MoA is incorporated.

3. A monitoring program for agro-food contaminants, biological and chemical including pesticide residues, is designed and implemented.

Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries are the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), the consumers, Universities and Research institutes, Laboratories. The indirect beneficiaries are : farmers, agro-food processors, agro-food traders and other Ministries.

Donor: FAO

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture

Duration: 1 Dec 2017 – 31 Dec 2019

Budget: USD 275,000

Code: TCP/LEB/3603

Objective: Improved livelihoods and food security of vulnerable agriculture-based host communities and Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon

Long term expected impact: The social and economic inclusion and cohesion of the populations affected by the Syrian crisis in Jordan and Lebanon is strengthened through local agriculture development.

Outputs:

1.  Adequate agriculture production support systems for vulnerable farm communities are rolled out and good agriculture practices are supported and developed;

2.  Ability of national institutions, farmer groups, agricultural technical centres and schools/facilities to develop capacity of host and refugee’s communities is enhanced;

3. Productive capacities of vulnerable host farmers and/or home-based micro and group-based small-scale agri-food enterprises are increased and job opportunities in the form of agricultural labour are created;

4. Livelihoods and employment opportunities for the most food insecure created through sustainable management of natural resources;

Beneficiaries: 

Vulnerable Lebanese small-holders: 5,000 (receiving cash transfer)

Farmers from host communities: 500 (receiving grants) + 100 (benefiting from the water canals)

Unskilled and seasonal agricultural labor from Lebanese host communities and displaced Syrian: 2,500 – 5,000 new jobs, and 920 individuals receiving cash transfers

Lebanese from host communities and displaced Syrians trained: 2,690

Dairy Cooperatives: 50

Ministry of Agriculture and 31 Agricultural Extension Centers

Donor: The European Union

Implementing Partners:  Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Social Affairs, WFP, IFAD

Duration: 2 years October 2019 – September 2021

Budget: USD 12.8M

Code: UNJP/RNE/011/EC

Objective/Outcome:  to implement an environmentally sustainable fisheries management of a Pilot Region along the Lebanese Coast.

Outputs:

1.     Lebanese Fishing Fleet & Fishing Gears assessed/surveyed;

2.     Pilot Region selected, managed, monitored and protected;

3.     Illegal fishing gears replaced with legal ones on fishing vessels of the Pilot Region.

Beneficiaries:  the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lebanese Navy/Coast Guard, National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), and Fishers cooperatives.

Donor: FAO

Implementing Partners: FAO in close collaboration with MoA

Duration: 2019-2021

Budget: USD 447,000

Code: TCP/LEB/3703

Objective: Enhance the resilience of vulnerable rural communities and their livelihoods in mountain areas through sustainable forest management.

Outputs:

1. Pest outbreak and forest fire risk and vulnerability assessments

2. Participatory forest management plans with a focus on pest and fire management

3. Enhance the capacity of local communities to apply climate-proof forest management practices

4. Apply sustainable forest management practices

5. Construction of water tanks for forest fire control (Green Plan)

6. Green jobs from sustainable forest management identified and sustainable and innovative uses of wood and non-wood forest products promoted

7. Implementation of community projects

8. Baseline study on soil and guidelines for soil conservation

9. Analysis of land use and land cover changes along the ecological corridors based on remote sensing data

10. Implement community – based participatory reforestation plans

11. Enhanced capacity on sustainable forest management of the Reforestation Programme Coordination Unit (RPCU) in MoA Coordination Unit (RPCU) in MoA 

12. Updated and extended assessments of existing eco-system services in selected forests

13. Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan for adaptive project management and lessons learnt

14. Develop and implement a communication and public awareness raising strategy

Beneficiaries: 24 communities with increased adaptive capacities to climate change.

Donor: GEF (Global Environmental Fund)

Implementing Partners: Green plan; Municipalities; NGOs

Duration: 5 years (2017 – 2021)

Budget: USD 7,147,635

Code: GCP /LEB/027/SCF

Objective: The capacity of the Green Plan to support small and medium male and female farmers to increase their income through land reclamation and adoption of sustainable water management practices is enhanced.

Outputs:

1. The Green Plan procedures are simplified, updated and tailored to the work requirements;

2. All existing farmers’ applications are reviewed and suitable projects identified and approved. Women’s applications will be given priority in the review process;

3. Land reclamation and water infrastructure construction sites are implemented;

4. Sustainable agriculture production for individual small and medium male and female farmers are designed and supported with appropriate training; 

Beneficiaries:

Farmers from Lebanese host communities: 1,250

Unskilled labor from Lebanese host communities and displaced Syrians: 105,260 person days

Green Plan – Ministry of Agriculture

Donor: The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Implementing Partners:  Green Plan – Ministry of Agriculture

Duration: 3.5 years December 2016 – May 2020

Budget: USD 8.25M

Code: OSRO/LEB/602/NET

Objective: In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, AVSI, ILO, WARD and UNICEF, the project aims to upgrade the seven technical agriculture schools, while offering enrollment opportunities to young Syrian and Lebanese students. This will allow young Lebanese graduates to have a better chance in accessing the job market, and will provide young displaced Syrians in Lebanon the necessary technical qualifications and official diplomas to use once they return to Syria and contribute to the post-conflict reconstruction of their country. The project aims to reach 525 students, ages 15-40, to enroll in the 3-year agricultural program; 1,848 students, ages 15 -25, for the short-term vocational training courses, and; 100 teachers to benefit from refresher training of agricultural technical trainer courses and curriculum development following Competency based Training (CBT) approach. The seven agriculture technical schools are managed in a sustainable manner providing adequate high quality agriculture technical training to young Lebanese and Syrians to respond to the labour market demand 

Outputs

1. The National Agriculture Technical Policy Strategy (including school management, program and curriculum) is revised

2. Linkages between the agricultural schools and Private Sector are created.

3. Seven agriculture technical schools are upgraded and adequately equipped.

4. The management and teaching capacity of the agriculture technical schools are enhanced.

5. The enrolment of Lebanese and Syrian students is increased.

Beneficiaries: Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian students; in addition to Agriculture Technical Schools teachers, trainers and EES staff.

Donor: The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, AVSI, ILO, and UNICEF

Duration: December 2016 – September 2020

Budget: USD 9,088,100

 Code: OSRO/601/LEB/NET