National Social Protection Strategy for Lebanon: Toward a Rights-Based Shock-Responsive & Sustainable System

The National Social Protection Strategy for Lebanon represents the first committed attempt to carrying out social reforms into a concrete, integrated and cross-sectoral approach, in order to change the dynamic of providing social protection services from fragmented silos to a nationally coordinated and inclusive system. In fact, the absence of a comprehensive universal social protection system has undermined the socio-economic rights, contributed to widening inequalities, and limited the potential for inclusive human-centered growth and development. Thus, designing a vision for social protection is a pivotal prerequisite for the country’s recovery from the multi-layered crises it has experienced, as there is an urgent need to address matters of social justice which have been systematically neglected in the post-war era.

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