Rebuilding Statecraft, Restoring Trust
In 2025, the Youth for Governance (Y4G) program worked closely with Lebanon’s Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoIM) to support the successful execution of the long-delayed municipal elections. These elections represented a pivotal moment in…
Lebanon’s Rubble Crisis: A Choice Between Environmental Rehabilitation and Irreversible Damage
Executive Summary Since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on 27 November 2025, the conflict’s aftermath remains largely unaddressed. While discussions have focused on clearing the rubble from Israeli shelling and airstrikes, the process lacks…
The Silent Giant: Lebanon’s Quarrying Sector
Aiming to address decades of environmental degradation and regulatory challenges, Youth for Governance has launched a project to promote a quarrying system in Lebanon that balances economic needs with environmental protection. The initiative focuses on…
Nefaa: The Cliffhanger
In 2023, the Youth for Governance (Y4G) program engaged 30 students in a project centered around the Traffic Management Authority (TMO), also known as Nefaa, which handles traffic-related matters. The Vehicle Registration Office (VRO) within…
Digitization: A tool towards an interconnected and secure public sector
For decades, the Lebanese have widely mocked the country’s public administration for its inefficiency, haphazard archiving systems, and lack of internal coordination and cooperation. But this summer, a group of 20 software developers on the…
The Free Fall Into New Forms Of Poverty
Since 2019, Lebanon has been enduring a severe and prolonged economic and financial crisis. This volatile environment is drastically affecting all sectors in the country, with an urgent need to assess the resultant deprivation of…
From crisis management to public management, we are the state
A group of young Lebanese researchers released Friday a three-part study revealing the depth of decay within Lebanon’s long-neglected public administration, and proposing a host of quick-win measures they say could help put the crisis-hit…
Lebanese CSOs and Digitization: A Transition to e-Society
A Youth led research in 2021 Siren Analytics and Arab NGOs Network for Development (ANND) launched a joint research project to map the needs and capacities of civil society organizations (CSOs) working in Lebanon in…