Lebanon: Applying the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards Workshop Series: Beirut

The Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS) articulate the minimum level of assistance required to support the economic recovery of vulnerable populations in the wake of crises and are an invaluable tool for designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating any type of program or activity that supports the economic recovery of individuals, businesses, and communities. As a member standard of the Humanitarian Standards Partnership, MERS are designed to promote humanitarian quality and accountability for and with people in crises.

The MERS should be used:

1. By anyone planning or implementing economic or livelihood programs in a humanitarian context.
2. By operational staff procuring and/or providing large volumes of goods for a specific area (such as non-food items distributions) to understand how to avoid a negative impact on the market.
3. By practitioners working in technical sectors such as WASH or Shelter to benefit from applying MERS as means of linking assistance to local markets.
4. By donors, governments, private-sector actors, proposal writers, and evaluation staff as a resource for designing or reviewing project activities.

Designed to equip everyone from practitioners to policymakers with the knowledge, skills, and resources to apply MERS, these workshops are highly interactive and supportive of diverse learning styles and preferences. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, reflection, and structured learning activities, expert facilitators work closely with workshop participants to convey the background, use and value of MERS in economic recovery and market systems programs.

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