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Addressing life-cycle vulnerabilities through social protection: Establishing Social Grants in Lebanon - Supporting Social Security and Institutional Reforms towards a Strengthened Social Protection System in Lebanon

eval_number:

2360450

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2360450

location:

country:

Lebanon

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Addressing life-cycle vulnerabilities through social protection: Establishing Social Grants in Lebanon - Supporting Social Security and Institutional Reforms towards a Strengthened Social Protection System in Lebanon

recommendations:

date:

2025-10-28 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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action_plan:

- In the second phase of the EU-funded Action, wide stakeholder engagement, including with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), social partners, and other civil society representatives, remains a key element. This will require continued efforts and, as rightly pointed out, discussing ways of institutionalising their meaningful and structured participation. - The ILO has been invited to participate in the tripartite Supervisory Committee (formed on 5 March 2024, started convening from 11 April 2025 onwards) that oversees the implementation of the pension scheme; in addition, the ILO, taking on board the results of the evaluation, has increased its efforts to engage with workers and employers representatives. - Action plan: * Continued participation in Supervisory Committee; as well as structured engagement with social partners (ongoing) * Explore ways to institutionalise the participation of social partners, OPDs, and other civil society representatives in the context of the NSPS, in particular its governance structure, and during elaboration of NSPS Action Plan (jointly with UNICEF, under the EU Action Phase II) (ongoing)

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Future programming should institutionalize structured, multi-stakeholder engagement mechanisms from the outset, ensuring equal and balanced engagement with employers and workers organisations, OPDs and different government stakeholders. This will strengthen ownership, design effectiveness and ensure no opportunities get missed in terms of access to employment and benefits for the target vulnerable populations, PwDs, women and elderly. In these two evaluated projects, MOSA’s leadership and R&A centre contributions were pivotal, but limited participation of employer organizations and uneven worker representation weakened the legitimacy and balance of key reforms, such as the NDA and pension law.

project_symbols:

LBN/21/01/CEF

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2360557

information_source:

Country Office

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