Luna

researcher, living the worst-case scenario

[The Policy Initiative @TPILebanon]

Three years after the launch of the Recovery, Reform and Reconstruction Framework (3RF), the aid program created for #Lebanon by the European Union, the World Bank and UN-agencies in response to the #Beirut Port Blast, how effective has it been in fulfilling its intended objectives?

In the absence of a state-led response, which types of actors intervened on the ground and responded to the urgent needs of repair and recovery?

What does this multi-scalar hybrid governance arrangement inform us about state making and city-making in #Lebanon?

@BeirutUrbanLab and The Policy Initiative (TPI) held a public seminar titled "Disaster Governance: The Recovery of Beirut after the Port Blast," to discuss the effectiveness of the Recovery, Reform and Reconstruction Framework (3RF) created for Lebanon by the European Union, the World Bank, and UN-agencies after the Beirut Port Blast of #August 2020.

This seminar summarized the research study co-directed by @mona_harb_ and @samiatallah1 with the research team members @sophiebloemeke @husseinch96 @wassimktbi @samizog @LunaDayekh

You can watch the full panel discussion on our Youtube channel to know more about the findings: https://t.co/rLY30FXh5B

[The Policy Initiative @TPILebanon]

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@LunaDayekh, @BeirutUrbanLab : We found that 63% of the collective goods’ response were provided by national actors.

We believe these collective goods are contributing to city-making through what some observers termed “urbanisme de projets” or micro-urbanism.

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

**TOMORROW**
Join us virtually or in-person at AUB.

Learn more about who governs the post-blast recovery and how it's governed--with:

@DaraKawthar @CAlsharabati @sophiebloemeke @wassimktbi @SalimRouhana @alianazarfarhat @husseinch96 @LunaDayekh @samizog @samiatallah1

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

📢"Disaster Governance" public seminar has been *POSTPONED* till next Wednesday, Feb 15

📍Architecture Lecture Hall, @AUB_Lebanon

This event will be live-streamed on AUB's Youtube channel

Looking forward to seeing you all!

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

ii) The meso-scale of actors that provided goods in the neighborhoods affected by the blast: international + national actors, NGOs & Faith-Based Orgs, political groups, universities & collectives--a study based on a survey with 90 actors piloted by @LunaDayekh & @husseinch96

[Dharini 🌺 @dharinipart]

Today at #COP27 Alaa Abd El Fattah's sister Sana was speaking at a press briefing addressing the unjust incarceration of her brother and demanding his immediate release
She was confronted directly by an Egyptian government rep who had to be escorted out by UN security #FreeAlaa

[Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action @TheCeSSRA]

New article out on 🇱🇧
"Crisis and Retirement: Elderly in the Public Sector are struggling to secure their needs", in open access here https://t.co/3SxYAzJaVc

#SocialProtectionForAll

[Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action @TheCeSSRA]

“Aging in Times of Crisis: Old Age Private Sector Workers Facing Growing Social Insecurity in #Lebanon” by @LunaDayekh is in open access now ➡️ https://t.co/EwY4ZrHqpc

#SocialProtectionForAll #ElderlyPeople

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

New Platform OUT! 📢
We're so excited to launch Precarious Lives, a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in Beirut, while introducing layers of citywide conditions that contribute to #urban_precarity
https://t.co/cC6tUPWnSr

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

Back to coordinating and doing (some) fieldwork after three years, and I missed it sooo much! Lucky to be co-working with @LunaDayekh and @husseinch96, and a great team of surveyors. Exciting stuff forthcoming!

[Luna @LunaDayekh]

@mona_harb_ @husseinch96 such a great team!💜 super happy to be working with you & hussein on this project :)

[Luna @LunaDayekh]

@thisisnotdd dakhilik

[Luna @LunaDayekh]

@roomtempwateryh i honestly don’t know what else was expected? lol

[Luna @LunaDayekh]

@mona_harb_ 😩 100%

[Luna @LunaDayekh]

#قادرين in beirut 2 today

[Christiana Parreira @cmparreira]

Can this weekend's elections in Lebanon unseat establishment parties? In a piece for @TPI_lebanon, I compare 🇱🇧 to other contexts where similarly entrenched party systems - e.g. Bolivia, Colombia, and Indonesia - have been defeated at the ballot box.

https://t.co/l1GSJspnhP?

[Yumna @yumna_patel]

Palestine is shaken this morning waking up to the news of the cold blooded killing of the icon & veteran journalist Shireen Abu Aqla. She was shot in the head. One of her colleagues was shot in the back. They were clearly identified as press. This was an execution.

[Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action @TheCeSSRA]

#TowardsSocialJustice
To what extent are cash transfer programs effective?
Read this briefing article on the ration cards programme in #Lebanon and its shortcomings, amidst the crisis and no universal and inclusive social security system
https://t.co/4YBDpjs6H9

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

@TPI_lebanon and Beirut Urban Lab have partnered to investigate the governance modalities and dynamics framing the urban recovery process and role of the Lebanese state in response to Beirut's Port Blast.
@mona_harb_ @LunaDayekh
Read here:
https://t.co/KIzYi50bjk

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

The awesome researchers & designers @BeirutUrbanLab presenting knowledge platforms at City Debates 2022 🤩😍

If you missed it, Panel 2's video is available on AUB YouTube channel.