The Open Library Project
The Open Library Project is an online resource library with readily available reference books, reports, studies, guides and tools, and fact sheets relevant to civil society and civil society organisations’ work in Lebanon.
Dossiers are sub-libraries specific to certain events or themes
Cover Title Publisher(s) Publishing Year Synopsis Dossier Theme
Civil Society Review Issue 4: “Challenging “Migration Governance” in the Middle East and Turkey: Dynamic Power Relations, Contested Interventions, and Individual Strategies” Lebanon Support 2020

The papers gathered in this special issue of the Civil Society Review, both explicitly or implicitly, challenge the way in which migration is “governed” in the Middle East and Turkey. They explore... [read more]

Migration, Mobility and Circulation Refugees, Mobility
A Practical Guide for Civil Society Organisations in Lebanon on Research Methods Lebanon Support 2020

Evidence-based research forms the backbone of any serious attempt to produce knowledge about society or understand... [read more]

Civil Society Observatory, Civil Society Resources Training & Capacity Building, Civil Society Development
A Practical Guide for Civil Society Organisations in Lebanon on Organisational Management Lebanon Support 2020

This guidebook aims to build the capacities of civil society organisations’ members, prepare them for using organisational... [read more]

Civil Society Observatory, Civil Society Resources Training & Capacity Building, Civil Society Development
A Practical Guide for Civil Society Organisations in Lebanon for ICT For Development Lebanon Support 2020

Information and Communication Technology is necessary to help organisations, as well as grassroots collectives to better communicate, plan, organise, implement, monitor, and develop programmes and... [read more]

Civil Society Observatory, Civil Society Resources Science & Technology, Training & Capacity Building, Civil Society Development
Reception Policies, Practices, and Responses RESPOND 2020

This report provides a contextual analysis of the provision of reception to asylum seekers in Lebanon, with a particular focus on the developments of the period spanning 2011 to 2019. Research... [read more]

Migration, Mobility and Circulation Refugees
Women's Political Participation in Lebanon and the Limits of Aid-Driven Empowerment Lebanon Support 2020

The question of women’s political participation in Lebanon could not be more timely. As of 17 October 2019, nation-wide protests have erupted in response to increasing austerity measures that... [read more]

Gender Equity Network Elections, Gender
Refugee Protection RESPOND 2020

This report provides a contextual analysis of the provision of refugee protection in Lebanon. It highlights the absence of a comprehensive refugee protection legal framework, in favor of a  set of... [read more]

Migration, Mobility and Circulation Refugees
Understanding the social protection needs of civil society workers in Lebanon. Towards strengthening social rights and security for all. Lebanon Support 2019

The social protection landscape in Lebanon is characterised by its fragmentation and exclusionary nature, leaving the most... [read more]

Socio-Economic Rights Base, Civil Society Observatory Public Sector Development, Civil Society Development
Lebanon’s Border Regime: Fluid Rigidity, Foreign Interference, and Hybrid Security Assemblages. RESPOND 2019
This report seeks to analyse border and migration governance in Lebanon; it provides an overview of legislation... [read more]
Migration, Mobility and Circulation Refugees
Lebanon’s 2018 Election: New measures and the resilience of the Status Quo. Lebanon Support 2019

This policy brief explores how—despite widespread citizen frustration—the status quo prevailed. The brief will subject the above paradoxes to greater empirical scrutiny, with particular attention... [read more]

Gender Equity Network, Conflict Analysis Project Elections, Gender

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