Lebanon Banking Paralysis Deepens Economic Collapse

UNICEF

UNICEF’s strategy is to combine direct service delivery with system strengthening, using child-focused interventions that can work at scale and in crises. Its public materials emphasize low-cost, high-impact, and sustainable solutions across health, nutrition, education, WASH, and protection, rather than isolated one-off projects.[6][2] A distinctive part of UNICEF’s approach is that it works through governments and local, national, and global partners to build or improve public systems while also reaching children immediately in emergencies. In education, for example, UNICEF both creates temporary learning centers for displaced children and helps strengthen formal education systems; in health, it pairs vaccine procurement and immunization support with disease prevention and primary care.[8][2] UNICEF also uses an equity-centered model, prioritizing children who are out of school, living in conflict zones, affected by poverty, or excluded because of gender or disability. Its programs are designed to protect children’s rights while delivering measurable outcomes such as improved survival, learning, sanitation, and protection in both stable and emergency settings.[8][6]

Project HOPE

Project HOPE’s strategy is to strengthen local health systems rather than deliver short-term aid alone. Across its programs, it works through training, mentorship, clinical capacity-building, and direct service delivery so that hospitals, clinics, and community health workers can continue providing care after an external response ends. This is visible in its NCD work in China, where it combines clinical training, case management, screening, counseling, and education to improve how local systems manage chronic disease, and in Ethiopia, where it supports hospital mentorship and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care centers.[5][8] A second part of its approach is rapid, mobile, and community-based response in crises. In emergencies and conflict settings, Project HOPE uses mobile health and nutrition teams, mobile clinics, and community partnerships to reach displaced or underserved people with primary care, maternal services, nutrition support, and outbreak prevention.[6][8] That model is designed to keep services accessible when fixed facilities are damaged, overloaded, or hard to reach. Project HOPE also appears to integrate disease-specific programs into broader public health delivery rather than treating each condition in isolation. Its publicly described primary areas include disasters and health crises, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal, neonatal, and child health, and health policy, which suggests a systems-oriented portfolio that combines prevention, treatment, and policy support across settings.[2][3]

Anera

Anera tackles Gaza’s water crisis by building and repairing water infrastructure, including reservoirs, networks, wells, pumping stations, and reverse osmosis desalination systems. It also connects health facilities to water, installs sanitation facilities, provides WASH education, and in emergencies fuels desalination plants and pumping stations, refills communal tanks, and delivers bottled water.

World Bank Group

The World Bank tackles Lebanon’s economic collapse through financing, technical assistance, and coordinated recovery frameworks. In Lebanon, it supports active projects across energy, water, reconstruction, health, social protection and jobs, agriculture, environment, fiscal management, and SME support. It also co-launched the Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF) with the EU and UN, and administers the Lebanon Financing Facility to pool donor grants for socio-economic recovery, reforms, and reconstruction. This approach focuses on restoring essential services, protecting vulnerable households and businesses, and enabling structural reforms with transparency and accountability.