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The Socioeconomic Impacts of the 2024 War on Lebanon
A war on Lebanon began on 8 October 2023. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of its immediate impact and far-reaching consequences. It provides a solid analysis to inform the country’s immediate recovery plan and guide longer-term reform efforts to address the structural challenges facing Lebanon. To this end, the report explores the impact of the war on various sectors, from the physical damage incurred to infrastructure and economic systems to the profound human and social costs. It also assesses the broader macroeconomic effects of the conflict, highlighting how existing challenges have been exacerbated, resulting in deepened vulnerabilities across multiple dimensions of society and the economy. The report provides short-, medium- and long-term policy recommendations to serve as foundations for recovery efforts.
الآثار الاجتماعية والاقتصادية لحرب 2024 في لبنان
A war on Lebanon began on 8 October 2023. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of its immediate impact and far-reaching consequences. It provides a solid analysis to inform the country’s immediate recovery plan and guide longer-term reform efforts to address the structural challenges facing Lebanon. To this end, the report explores the impact of the war on various sectors, from the physical damage incurred to infrastructure and economic systems to the profound human and social costs. It also assesses the broader macroeconomic effects of the conflict, highlighting how existing challenges have been exacerbated, resulting in deepened vulnerabilities across multiple dimensions of society and the economy. The report provides short-, medium- and long-term policy recommendations to serve as foundations for recovery efforts.
The Socioeconomic Impacts of the 2024 War on Lebanon: Policy Brief
Gender Alert: Gender and Displacement in Lebanon at the Juncture of the Ceasefire
Between October 2023 and late November 2024, Lebanon experienced the largest escalation of hostilities with Israel since the 2006 War. Intense Israeli airstrikes coupled with evacuation orders across Lebanon, including in eastern and southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut, resulted in mass displacement and heightened socioeconomic vulnerabilities among affected populations. As of 24 November 2024, close to 900,000 individuals were displaced due to the conflict, with women and girls making up 51 per cent of the internally displaced population. Of an estimated 260,000 households, close to 21 per cent were women-led households. Additionally, more than 80,000 Syrians and 3,466 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon were among the displaced. The conflict took a profound toll on people’s lives. Lebanese health officials estimate that, since the escalation of hostilities on 8 October 2023, 4,047 people have been killed and 16,638 wounded, including at least 790 women and 316 children. As commonly witnessed in other contexts, this latest Gender Alert confirms that while the conflict impacts civilians indiscriminately, women and girls have been disproportionately affected due to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that heighten their exclusion and risks.
Gaza War: Preliminary Findings on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact on Lebanon
The outbreak of the war in Gaza on has resulted in an additional layer of complexity to the already profound and multifaceted crisis that Lebanon has been struggling with for the past few years. The impact has started to be felt across sectors, and through a variety of transmission channels. The ongoing conflict around the Southern Lebanese border that has been triggered by the war is expected to have significant impact on key economic sectors in Lebanon, particularly tourism and services. The economy of South Lebanon has been and will be affected, given the direct military attacks targeting a high number of southern villages and towns, the high displacement rates, and the reported shutdown of economic activity. This UNDP report, launched December 19, 2023, is an early attempt to take stock of losses and inflicted damages to provide evidence for the implementation of the triple nexus and thus complementing humanitarian assistance with developmental support, and to provide an unbiased baseline to guide future programmatic responses of UNDP and partners for recovery, reconstruction and stabilization.
National Green Export Review of Lebanon: Natural Soap and Ecotourism
This report presents the findings of the Lebanon National Green Export Review (NGER) conducted between 2016 and 2018 through a partnership between the Lebanese Government and UNCTAD. It analyses green production and export opportunities in the natural soap and ecotourism sectors and comprises national action plans to develop green exports in each sector. The Lebanese olive oil sector is well established and very competitive with around 544 registered oil mills in Lebanon and 110,000 olive farmers and growers. Olive oil that is not of food quality is used to make soap thereby creating jobs and improving the income of local workers while contributing to the reduction of agricultural waste. The two main types of oil used for soap production are pomace oil, extracted the dregs of the olive paste, and olive oil unsuitable for consumption. The report was prepared by a team of national experts with technical support provided by UNCTAD.
No. 51016. Turkey and Lebanon
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of the Republic of Lebanon for cooperation on combating terrorism, organized crime and illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (with appendix). Ankara, 3 November 2008