Lebanon Emergency Assistance Project

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Component 1: Immediate Response. There are urgent actions required to ensure readiness for recovery and where possible to create a return to normality and these activities need to start immediately. Safe and planned rubble management is critical to reduce environmental harm, ensure maximum recycling/reuse of rubble materials and to create the conditions for recovery and reconstruction. Rubble management requires investment across a value chain that starts with clearance of materials for the original sites, transportation of the rubble to temporary sites for sorting and recovery of materials to the fullest extent possible and then repurposing and rehabilitating old quarry sites through infilling, etc. There may also be measures put in place to reduce further damage to cultural heritage, protect the public from severely damaged structures and to transition buildings used for hosting of refugees back to their original purpose and use.Component 2: Lifeline and Critical Infrastructure Recovery.2 a: In damaged areas where economic activity can be rapidly restored and where a high proportion of the pre-conflict population has remained or returned, there is an urgency to repair and restore lifelines, such as mobility, water, energy, communications, solid waste management, emergency services, education, social, health care and services. For example, deployment of standalone systems (solar/generators) can be used to restore basic services while longer-term reconstruction of the energy system is completed. Similarly, alternative arrangements to supply safe water can take place temporarily while more lengthy repairs to water networks are undertaken, such as repairs to pumping stations or repair of electric grid supplying the water facilities. Similarly repair of damaged family medical centers and replacement of equipment and schools and/or installation of prefabricated buildings (along with medical equipment) ensures the restoration of primary health and ante-natal care as well as education provision2 b: Owner-Driven Housing repair. More than 270,000 housing units have been damaged, with 60,000 of these units sustaining light damages that are favorable to owner-driven repair (e.g., damage to windows, doors, roofs, plumbing/electrical services). Providing small grants to homeowners for these repairs provides a cost-effective way to increase housing supply and reduce shelter pressure for a high number of beneficiaries. A government policy on housing recovery is under preparation. Given the limited financing, support for homeowner driven repair will be limited to homeowners eligible for existing social assistance programs. Component 3: Green and Robust Reconstruction of Critical Infrastructure and Lifeline ServicesReconstruction of seriously damaged infrastructure and buildings requires preparation of feasibility studies and designs, environment and social studies, stakeholder consultation etc. Under 3 a, this component will finance the necessary preparation to ensure there is a pipeline of reconstruction projects ready for financing. For example, this could include the assessments and preparation of large-scale urban transport infrastructure, water, and wastewater reconstruction, priority solid waste management infrastructure, rehabilitation of hospitals and public administration buildings etc. The component may also support the necessary support towards design of programs and projects for the reconstruction of severely damaged and destroyed multi-family apartment buildings, including options to crowd in private financing, and planning for longer term spatial and urban reconstruction. Under 3b Civil works and construction supervision services for high priority and ready reconstruction activities, would also be eligible as financing is available. Component 4: Project Management