Lebanon continues to confront an unprecedented financial and economic crisis facilitated by a history of violence, volatility, and social inequality that has undermined the subsistence capacity of already vulnerable populations. The country continues hosting the largest numbers of refugees per capita in the world (almost 1 in 3), estimated at 1.5 million displaced Syrians along with 31,400 Palestine refugees from Syria, 35,000 Lebanese returnees, and a pre-existing population of more than 174,422 Palestine refugees, and risks for new displacement waves are rising with a deteriorating geopolitical environment. This multi-layered crisis has devastating impacts on the social, economic and environmental capital of the country and, increasingly, on its social cohesion and stability as well.

Communities hosting large numbers of displaced populations have to face, with inadequate institutional capacities, fast-dwindling resources, and insufficient collective approach, the lingering consequences of the Syrian displacement crisis, exacerbated since 2019 by a severe economic, fiscal and governance meltdown, while pressure from climate change keeps increasing. This state-of-affairs undermines their capacity to cope with the immediate impacts of the compounded crisis – including breakdowns in essential services, rising poverty and the stiffening of inter- and intra-community tensions – and curtails their ability to overcome systemic challenges through a development approach, including, but not limited to, the protracted presence of displaced populations with no durable solutions in sight.

The Lebanon Host Community Support Project – Phase 2 (LHSP 2.0) Project builds upon the long accumulated experience and lessons learnt of implementing the LHSP since 2014. LHSP 2.0 proposes to anchor more firmly stabilization activities into an integrated local development paradigm, to work more at an area-based level in clusters and unions and to strengthen its support to municipal capacity development, in order to increase impact and sustainability of stabilization support.

At the local level, the LHSP 2.0 aims to help increase coping and sustainable development capacities in host communities and create a more enabling environment for mitigating and preventing tensions by: 

1. reducing perceived competition between different population groups over public services, livelihood and economic opportunities by helping to maintain and increase service outputs and create economic opportunities, in a context of acute incapacitation of the public and private sectors to maintain their levels of operations and to mitigate negative crisis impacts over populations, Lebanese, displaced or refugees; and
2. providing conflict-sensitive and inclusive dialogue and decision-making spaces where different components of local communities can explore and agree peacefully on their common interests and build their own pathway to a more sustainable future.

The Project has four outputs:

Under the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor, the incumbent will perform the following functions:

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Responsible for the development of the LHSP M&E Framework (development of IRRF indicators including baseline, targets and means of verification)
• Responsible for the reporting and quality control of all the end-of-the-year results to RBAS and HQ on the Quantum+ platform (i.e. ROAR and IRRF reporting, Risk analysis, IATI, QA).
• Develop and update LHSP CO risk log
• Provide inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving UNDP expected results, while being compliant with UNDP and donors’ evaluation and monitoring requirements, including LCRP indicators particularly for Livelihood and Social Stability Sectors.
• Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on projects’ design/formulation and implementation, notably through making monitoring, defining qualitative and quantitative indicators, review and evaluation user-friendly and informative products/templates.
• Ensure that all TORs, inception reports, and final reports are in line with the HQ Evaluation guidelines
• Support the LHSP staff in the development of donor proposals
• Responsible for concept notes and project proposals quality controls

Reporting:

• Develop all donors quarterly and final reports
• Support the UNDP CO in successfully accomplishing the yearly reporting requirements of the UNDP HQ and Regional Bureau.

Institutional Arrangement:

The selected incumbent will be working under the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor.