United States Agency for International Development - Lebanon

USAID is committed to helping Lebanon modernize and achieve long-term prosperity through programs that strengthen service delivery and create new jobs. Our activities bolster the efforts of Lebanese institutions to provide high quality education, as well as improve the provision of water, sanitation, and other public services, particularly in poor and underserved areas of the country. USAID support enhances economic opportunity, promotes environmental protection, improves local governance, and helps mitigate the impacts of the Syria crisis in Lebanon. OUR WORK 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. Since 2006, USAID has provided more than $1.3 billion in assistance for the Lebanese people. EDUCATION USAID seeks to improve student learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy in the primary grades, increase social and emotional skills, and build the capacity of educational institutions to deliver high quality service. This support aligns with the “Reaching All Children with Education” (RACE 2) strategy created by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Our basic education program trains teachers and coaches, develops educational content, supplies learning materials, and strengthens the ability of institutions to enhance the overall quality of education. Approximately two thousand public school teachers have received training to improve the instruction of Arabic reading in the primary grades. All of Lebanon’s primary public schools benefit from USAID’s assistance. In higher education, USAID has provided full undergraduate scholarships to more than 1,300 Lebanese and refugee students to undertake their university studies in Lebanon. Scholarship recipients come from all over the country and pursue majors with prospects for meaningful employment. They also benefit from leadership training and civic engagement opportunities. USAID also supports twelve Lebanese higher education institutions with technical assistance to better prepare their graduates to be successful in the labor market.