Salāmah: responding to the crisis in Lebanon
We’re equipping local organisations with skills and knowledge to provide safe, effective, and suitable support to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon
“We continue to witness an alarming level of human costs and humanitarian consequences of conflict in Lebanon”
Lebanon has experienced its most significant conflict escalation since the 2006 Lebanon War, resulting in 3,050 fatalities since October 2023, including 190 children and 600 women. Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon has stated that “We continue to witness an alarming level of human costs and humanitarian consequences of conflict in Lebanon”. This escalation has resulted in mass displacement of over 1 million people, many of which have displaced multiple times since October 2023. This in turn has led to an increase in for basic humanitarian needs, for both displaced communities – including IDPs and refugees – and host-communities. The deteriorating security situation is putting hundreds of thousands of people’s lives at risk, including first line responders.
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people in Lebanon need humanitarian assistance
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people internally displaced in Lebanon
What does the Salāmah project involve?
RedR will contextualise and adapt its Security Management for Humanitarians, as well as its bite-sized online training on Personal Safety (Staying Effective) to train more than 120 humanitarian responders and enabling them to provide a safe, efficient, and locally-led humanitarian response.
RedR will conduct and publish a Learning Needs Assessment to understand the learning needs of individual humanitarian responders in Lebanon more broadly.
If you’re responding to the humanitarian crisis, we’ll appreciate your insights here
RedR will use the findings to inform capacity building and strengthening organisations on the gaps and needs amongst responders.
Modules and how to register coming soon…
What does the name Salāmah mean?
The project name, Salāmah, is an acronym for Security Adaption in Lebanon for Adequate Management & Advanced Humanitarianism in Lebanon. Salāmah means safety in Arabic, which is what we aim to achieve through this project. Through local language, supporting local organisations, and equipping local responders, we can ensure that local humanitarians are safe and secure, and able to support the people in Lebanon affected by this crisis.
We’re working to understand and address learning needs, remove roadblocks, and empower individuals to provide the best possible support to people affected by the crisis in Lebanon.
