Grant no. ANE-0342-G-SS-6070-00 to Save the Children Federation

SCF will: (1) rehabilitate small enterprises; (2) deliver emergency community health services and provide primary health care (PHC) outreach; and (3) provide emergency relief. SCF will establish a credit institution to provide small farmers and businesspersons with access to credit. Priority attention will be given to attracting private funding and to effectively managing loan funds in order to ensure the sustainabilility of this activity. Second, SCF will develop comprehensive care centers and PHC networks to meet the most severe and pressing needs in 31 communities totalling 152,000 people in six target areas - Sidon, South Litani, Western Chahaar, Hay-as-Sullum, Rural Jbail, and the Bebnine vicinity. Efforts will focus initially on relieving immediate health problems and providing maternal/child health care. Community members will receive extensive PHC training. SCF will also continue to provide supplies and medications needed to cover the emergency needs of SCF mobile clinics now operating in the Greater East Beirut and Jezzine areas, SCF health centers in the southern suburbs, Jbail, and South Lebanon, as well as of other health clinics providing special emergency and displaced family care. Health centers operated by SCF will promote cost recovery via contributions and community fees for curative services and pharmaceuticals. SCF will also seek to expand its private funding base in order to recover the recurring costs of preventive services. Finally, SCF will continue to target and provide emergency assistance to families, including displaced families living in monasteries, old hotels, and similar places, and families made vulnerable by the loss of a wage-earner, the presence of a pregnant wife or small children, etc. Assistance to these families will take the form of providing essential supplies, foods, medicines, and social services, and improving the sanitation and health conditions of their living quarters.