Project Overview

The project seeks to respond to the priorities and gaps in funding women’s rights/led and youth-led organizations that promote the political participation and socio-economic recovery of women and young women, including displaced and refugee women and girls, in peacebuilding contexts across Lebanon.

Through this initiative, UNDP Lebanon seeks to strengthen the ability of local women’s rights organizations to engage meaningfully and effectively in peacebuilding processes. This will be achieved by providing targeted operational and programmatic support, while also fostering peer learning and exchange. Tailored interventions—including mentorship and continuous technical assistance—will address systemic barriers and capacity gaps that may limit organizational effectiveness. Strengthening these organizations is central to advancing inclusive recovery, reinforcing social cohesion, and promoting the leadership and participation of women and girls—especially displaced and young women—in peace and security processes. 

Project Objective

• Strengthen the institutional, operational, and programmatic capacities of women’s rights organizations, women-led organizations, and youth-led civil society organizations to effectively engage in peacebuilding, recovery, humanitarian response, and protection initiatives across Lebanon.
• Enhance the socio-economic and meaningful participation of women and young women, particularly displaced,refugee, and vulnerable women and girls, by supporting locally led initiatives that promote leadership, inclusion, and access to decision-making processes.
• Support community-based peacebuilding, social cohesion, and inclusive recovery efforts through targeted interventions implemented by local civil society organizations addressing the needs of conflict-affected, displaced  and vulnerable communities.
• Strengthen collaboration, coordination, peer learning, and knowledge exchange among civil society organizations to enahnce the effectiveness, sustainability, and collective impact of women-led peacebuilding and recovery initiatives.
• Contribute to advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and the objectives of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) by promoting gender-responsive recovery, protection, wome’s leadership and inclusive peacebuilding processes in Lebanon.
   

GESI Component (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion)

Gender equality and social inclusion are central to the project’s approach. The initiative adopts a gender-responsive and transformative approach aimed at strengthening the meaningful participation, leadership, and socio-economic recovery of women and girls, particularly displaced,refugee, returnees and vulnerable women and young women, affected by conflict, displacement, and socio-economic instability in Lebanon.

The project specifically supports women’s rights organizations, women-led organizations, and youth-led civil society organizations as key local actors in advancing inclusive peacebuilding, recovery, and social cohesion efforts. Through tailored institutional strengthening, mentorship, technical assistance, and locally led interventions, the project seeks to address barriers limiting women’s meaningful participation in decision-making, community leadership, and recovery processes.

The intervention integrates the principles of Leaving No One Behind by prioritizing women and girls facing intersecting forms of vulnerability and exclusion, including displaced populations and vulnerable host communities. Activities are designed to promote equitable access to opportunities, strengthen community participation, foster dialogue and social cohesion, and enhance the resilience and sustainability of local women-led initiatives.

In alignment with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, the project contributes to advancing inclusive and gender-responsive peacebuilding and recovery processes while reinforcing the role of local civil society organizations as drivers of sustainable change and community resilience in Lebanon.