Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2024

CRP last updated: October 17 2024
Funding last updated: October 08 2024
$84,400,000
Funding required
523,200
People Targeted

IOM Vision

IOM aims to support and protect the most vulnerable individuals across Lebanon, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), migrants, refugees, and local community members, against mounting humanitarian needs and socioeconomic hardship caused by multidimensional crises. To address the mobility dynamics of the multi-faceted crisis across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, IOM will provide lifesaving protection support, build economic and community resilience against the loss of job opportunities and growing tensions, and seek to prevent and discourage unsafe and irregular migration. 

Key Operating Modalities
Participation and empowerment Conflict sensitivity Integrated Programming Collaboration and partnership Localization Cash-based interventions
Cross-cutting priorities
Data and evidence Protection Mainstreaming Gender Equality Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse Disaster Risk Climate Change

Objective 1 - Saving lives and protecting people on the move
Objective
Saving lives and protecting people on the move

$45,900,000
Funding required
500,000
People Targeted
80
Entities Targeted
Internally displaced person, International migrant, Local population / community, Refugee
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

Under this objective, IOM will provide humanitarian and protection assistance to the most vulnerable groups, including IDPs migrants, refugees, and Lebanese citizens, including health assistance, cash-based support (multi-purpose cash assistance and cash for winterization, protection, accommodation and health care), and case management and protection services for people in need, including for victims of exploitation and abuse. In doing so, IOM will work with a range of entities including primary health-care centres, hospitals, local municipalities, government ministries and agencies, and local  non-governmental organizations (NGOs). IOM will also conduct data collection activities, with a focus on migrants and irregular migration trends, to inform humanitarian programming in Lebanon. 

Funding confirmed 12%
88% Funding gap

Displacement tracking

IOM Lebanon will conduct research and data activities to improve knowledge of migration trends in Lebanon and monitor population changes more effectively over specified periods. As the primary source of internal displacement data in the country, DTM helps IOM and its partners better understand where vulnerable populations are located, facilitating timely and targeted humanitarian assistance. Activities will include: 

  • Conducting Mobility Tracking to monitor population movements, with the objective of informing emergency response.
  • Conducting Migrant Presence Monitoring (MPM).  
  • Contributing to Multisector Needs Assessments (MSNA).  
  • Conducting research on irregular migration drivers and trends to inform IOM programming.   
  • Conducting regular protection monitoring among migrant communities in Lebanon, in cooperation with the Migrant Sector NGO partners.
Funding required
$1,010,000
Plan types

Basic needs, including food and multi-purpose cash assistance

IOM will provide basic assistance to severely vulnerable households, including migrants, refugees, and Lebanese. Activities will include: 

  • Distributing non-food items and in-kind assistance including essential relief items such as mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets and solar lamps to IDPs and host communities to meet their immediate needs.
  • Providing multipurpose emergency cash assistance where markets are functional, ensuring that timely, needs-based and safe support reaches affected populations.
  • Providing winterization cash support.
Funding required
$11,340,000
Funding confirmed
$66,646
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types

Protection

IOM will deliver protection assistance to IDPs, migrants, refugees, Lebanese citizens reached through partner referrals and community outreach. Assistance will include conflict-affected populations and those who have been subject to violence, exploitation, and abuse, including people facing GBV risks and GBV survivors, victims of human trafficking (VoT), as well as other vulnerable profiles. IOM will carry out GBV risk mitigation in line with IOM's Institutional Framework for Addressing GBV in Crises. IOM will also target returning migrants, including irregular migrants intercepted at sea and shipwreck survivors, and families of victims. People targeted will receive case management support and services either directly by IOM or via partners. Protection services will be grounded in protection analysis and tailored according to the needs and protection risks identified, with particular attention given to the protection risks faced by migrants, especially female migrant domestic workers, victims of violence, exploitation, and abuse, and migrant children.

Activities will include the following by IOM and implementing partners:  

  • Providing appropriate case management and counselling to migrants in vulnerable situations in Lebanon, including migrants who have been subjected to violence, exploitation, and abuse as well as survivors of trafficking.
  • Providing mental health and psychosocial support to displaced people in the areas most affected by the conflict in the south and other areas hosting displaced persons
     
Funding required
$6,750,000
Funding confirmed
$1,745,757
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types
25%
Funding confirmed
75%
Funding gap

Movement assistance and migrant evacuations

With the escalation of hostilities in September 2024, IOM offers voluntary movement assistance for foreign nationals. This may include:

  • Providing migrants in vulnerable situations with voluntary return assistance and, if requested by IOM Member States, evacuation to their countries of origin. IOM will work closely with embassies, consular services, relevant ministries, and community-based organizations. 
Funding required
$12,000,000
Plan types

Site management and coordination

Collective shelters, while not a long-term solution, are a critical last resort for vulnerable people fleeing conflict. IOM will support local authorities and site management partners through mobile teams, ensuring coordinated and predictable delivery of services, protection and assistance, alongside site care and maintenance. As co-lead of the Site Coordination Sector with UNHCR, IOM will ensure effective coordination at national and local levels, providing support to partners by leveraging its expertise in information management and capacity building. Activities will include:

  • As co-lead of the Site Coordination Sector with UNHCR, ensuring effective coordination at national and local levels, providing support to partners by leveraging its expertise in information management and capacity building
  • Through mobile teams, supporting local authorities and site management partners through mobile teams, ensuring coordinated and predictable delivery of services, protection and assistance, alongside site care and maintenance. Partners and affected communities will receive tools, on-the-job training and support to manage the sites.
Funding required
$3,000,000
Funding confirmed
$18,542
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types

Shelter and settlements

IOM will support small and medium-scale infrastructure programmes to ensure safe and equal access to services for the displaced populations. IOM will focus on:

  • Creating safe, dignified and resilient living conditions by repairing and rehabilitating community sites hosting IDPs. This includes implementing protection risk mitigation measures, fire safety protocols, environmental hazard protection and providing necessary equipment. Support will be prioritized for sites with the greatest needs, particularly those hosting vulnerable groups such as women, children and persons with disabilities. Where possible, mid-term solutions will be pursued, encouraging collaboration and ownership from displaced and host communities and stakeholders.
Funding required
$2,000,000
Plan types

Direct health support

IOM will support primary and secondary healthcare services, to improve access to health for vulnerable groups, particularly migrants. Activities will include: 

  • Delivering primary healthcare services including maternal and child health services, management of non-communicable diseases, nutrition and vaccination, through subsidized consultation fees, laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging.  
  • Covering secondary healthcare hospitalization fees of migrants. 
  • Providing transportation services for beneficiaries in remote areas to improve access to Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCCs), National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) centres and healthcare services. 
  • Supporting hospitalization and quarantine of tuberculosis (TB) cases. 
  • Providing diagnostics and medical support for suspected TB/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases through support to the respective National Programmes.
  • Extending reach for TB and HIV programs through a network of field coordinators and community health workers who also provide awareness and health promotion on TB and other communicable diseases.
  • Providing lifesaving medicines and supplies to hospitals and health centres across the south and prepositioned vital equipment for potential escalations, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health. 
  • Enhancing hospital readiness and healthcare service delivery by providing logistical support, medical equipment, supplies and medication, in line with the priorities set by the Ministry of Public Health.
  • Deploying mobile medical teams to improve access to primary healthcare for IDPs and host communities. 
Funding required
$6,800,000
Funding confirmed
$3,011,600
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types
44%
Funding confirmed
56%
Funding gap

Humanitarian border management and services for citizens abroad

IOM provides capacity development to support the Lebanese government, the General Security Directorate (GSFD) and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Navy in border management, responding to irregular migration, and addressing transnational crimes, particularly trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants. IOM also works with the Ministry of Health to strengthen disease control and prevention at key points of entry. 

Activities will include: 

  • Strengthening national humanitarian border management and search and rescue capacities to help address transnational organized crime, including the smuggling of migrants, and ensure that migrants facing risks to life or safety at sea are rescued and offered protection and assistance. This support includes provision of equipment, technical assistance, and support to small-scale infrastructure.  

Funding required
$1,000,000
Funding confirmed
$544,942
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types
54%
Funding confirmed
46%
Funding gap

Emergency preparedness

IOM will support national search and rescue services and front-line responders. Complementing the Lebanese government’s efforts to address the current humanitarian needs of IDPs and host communities, IOM will also enhance preparedness for a potential larger-scale conflict. This is in line with Lebanon’s National Response Framework, Preparedness Plan, and the UN Contingency Plan, based on various scenarios of escalated conflict and the needs those would present.  Activities will include: 

  • Supporting the Ministry of Public Health to ensure its warehousing for medications and essential equipment is maintained to the highest standard.  
  • Working with embassies and providing bespoke training to support their nationals in times of crisis. 

IOM will support national search and rescue services and front-line responders. In addition, annual wildfires in Lebanon cause temporary displacement and significant damage to public infrastructure and private homes, as well as casualties. IOM will strengthen preparedness to respond to conflict in Lebanon and natural hazards such as forest fires, particularly in the country’s northern region where local capacity is lacking and unable to respond effectively. Activities will include:  

  • Providing technical assistance, training, and equipment to strengthen search and rescue capacity. 
  • Supporting the Civil Defence to strengthen preparedness for multiple hazards, notably wildfires.
Funding required
$2,000,000
Plan types

Multi-sectoral support

Includes funding which supports multi-sectoral interventions or cannot be attributed to a specific activity area.
Funding confirmed
$194,479
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Cash for work beneficiaries in Qaroun, Bekaa. © IOM Lebanon 2023
Cash for work beneficiaries in Qaroun, Bekaa. © IOM Lebanon 2023

Objective 2 - Driving solutions to displacement
Objective
Driving solutions to displacement

$19,250,000
Funding required
23,200
People Targeted
73
Entities Targeted
International migrant, Local population / community, Refugee
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

Under this objective, IOM will target communities experiencing inter-communal tension and/or prone to irregular migration, with a focus on North Lebanon, Akkar, and the Beqaa Valley. IOM will deliver locally-centred interventions to promote community resilience and social cohesion, with a focus on livelihoods and cash for work activities, local governance, and improvement of local services and public infrastructure, as well as strengthen emergency response capacity in relation to disease surveillance, search and rescue, and disasters. In doing so, IOM will work with a range of entities including municipalities, local businesses, schools, clubs, government ministries, Social Development Centres, and primary health-care centres.

Funding confirmed 9%
91% Funding gap

Community stabilization

IOM will implement projects to support local communities experiencing tensions and/or prone to irregular migration. This will be through community-based planning that promotes local collaboration and trust, while also enhancing community life, e.g., through improved public infrastructure, local services, or livelihood activities. In complement to providing direct mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to migrants, IOM will integrate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) throughout community stabilization activities to support social cohesion and strengthen resilience of individuals, families and communities. Activities will include:  

  • Initiating community-based planning activities within areas facing tension, by establishing or reviving local committees that promote cross-communal collaboration in pursuit of mutual agendas.  
  • Implementing community support projects to improve local facilities, public infrastructure, and services.  
  • Following inclusive programming, such as community dialogues, to ensure typically marginalized groups, such as women and youth, are represented.  
  • Providing capacity and coordination support to local authorities to build greater trust with local communities. 
  • Piloting a Co-funding Mechanism, a community fundraising tool designed to promote horizontal and vertical trust.
Funding required
$10,000,000
Funding confirmed
$1,708,759
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types
17%
Funding confirmed
83%
Funding gap

Livelihoods and economic recovery

IOM aims to support and protect people’s livelihoods to reduce the socioeconomic drivers of irregular migration among Lebanese and Syrian refugee communities. IOM activities will provide vulnerable Syrian refugees and Lebanese with access to temporary employment and longer-term income-generating opportunities, in addition to improving employability and job retention. The activities will target vulnerable populations in Akkar, North Lebanon and the Bekaa. Activities will include:

  • Providing aspiring business owners with microfinancing grants and trainings to support business development.  
  • Providing grants to small and medium enterprises to boost local businesses and job creation.  
  • Providing vocational training designed to improve employability by enhancing technical and soft skills.  
  • Implementing cash-for-work activities, such as public work projects and infrastructure maintenance.  
Funding required
$5,000,000
Funding confirmed
$50,896
Last updated: 08 Oct 2024
Plan types
1%
Funding confirmed
99%
Funding gap

Health system strengthening

IOM will continue efforts to strengthen the health system in Lebanon through the following activities: 

  • Providing support to the National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTP) by integrating TB services into public facilities and primary health care. 
  • Providing support to the National Referral Lab on TB. 
  • Using a community-based approach to find active TB cases.  
  • Developing a large-scale TB screening in prisons with the NTP.
  • Supporting thematic NGOs and community-based organizations (CBOs) related to the National AIDS Programme (NAP). 
  • Advocating and supporting the NAP and the NTP in transforming digital health information systems.  
  • Engaging with MoPH in a potential insurance scheme for migrants living in Lebanon. 
  • Providing migrants with follow-up care, accommodation, health-care services, psychosocial support (e.g. therapy, support groups), and legal assistance. 

As part of border health interventions, IOM will coordinate with the MoPH to develop public health emergency contingency plans to respond to suspected communicable diseases at the borders, in an overall objective to improve preparedness and risk reduction at the borders, in line with the 2005 International Health Regulations. In addition, IOM will enhance the resilience of Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCCs) to climate change and disease outbreaks such as cholera. Activities will include: 

  • Training of health and non-health staff at borders on border health and International Health Regulations (2005). 
  • Developing standard operating procedures and contingency plans at borders for public health threats. 
  • Procuring supplies, equipment, and diagnostic tests.  
  • Cultural sensitization training for primary health-care staff. 
  • Supporting the MoPH to develop the public health emergency response plan. 
  • Conducting symptom screening and awareness sessions for migrants at borders. 
  • Supporting a network of volunteers all over Lebanon in outreach activities to migrants and vulnerable communities, to raise awareness about different public health topics including but not limited to cholera, COVID-19, tuberculosis, and HIV. 
  • Supporting outbreak preparedness, building a stockpile of kits to distribute in emergencies. 
  • Enhancing the capacity of the PHCCs to respond to environmental crises, particularly those stemming from climate change. 
Funding required
$3,750,000
Plan types

Adaptation and disaster risk reduction

IOM will strengthen relevant stakeholders’ capacity to reduce disaster risk through a multi-hazard approach that will identify hazards by improving relevant local and national capacities to respond to these dangers. Activities will include: 

  • Implementing training and education events. 
  • Conducting community-based vulnerability and capacity assessments and mapping. 
  • Providing infrastructure and equipment. 
Funding required
$500,000
Plan types
Operational presence in

Lebanon

20
International staff and affiliated work force
336
National staff and affiliated work force
4
IOM field office

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