These challenges include growing the economy, improving the public education system, rebuilding national infrastructure, preserving the country’s ecological resources, and strengthening local governance. U.S. assistance to Lebanon continues to help the country in its revival efforts.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States’ government agency that leads international development and humanitarian assistance efforts to partner countries. We work together with individuals, communities, and countries globally to improve everyday lives.

We engage with partners to respond to needs expressed by ordinary citizens and to better enable local residents to drive and sustain community development. This draws on America’s long history of support to Lebanon, where the U.S. has been providing foreign assistance since 1951.

USAID is engaging with new partners to respond to the needs expressed by citizens and to strengthen their capacity to drive and sustain their own development drawing on the experience and long history in Lebanon, where the United States began providing foreign assistance in 1951.

tourism sector in Lebanon is heavily dependent on the security situation in Lebanon and the region. The tourism sector’s direct contribution to GDP dropped nearly 6 percent after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 and the subsequent internal instability of the political and securit

These challenges include growing the economy, improving the public education system, rebuilding national infrastructure, preserving the country’s ecological resources, and strengthening local governance. U.S. assistance to Lebanon continues to help the country in its revival efforts.

Key Developments Overlapping crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing refugee crisis, and August 4 explosions at the Port of Beirut—have exacerbated vulnerabilities among Lebanese nationals and refugee populations in Lebanon.

Jan 21, 2025 · All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance ...

As the country is facing a rapidly deteriorating socio-economic crisis which is impacting Lebanese residents’ access to livelihoods and basic services, CSP is ramping up activity implementation across its four technical components: 1) Direct Community Support. 2) Workforce Development. 3) Wastewater Management.

This report is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The content of this report is the sole responsibility of the Lebanon Industry Value Chain Development (LIVCD) Project and