Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayyed, surrounded by UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Marcoluigi Corsi (left), and IMF Resident Representative in Lebanon Frederico Lima, at the Basil Fuleihan Institute, July 8, 2025.
Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayyed said Tuesday in Beirut that she has requested a significant increase in the state’s contribution to the World Bank-financed Emergency Social Safety Net Project (ESSN), also known as AMAN, for 2026, which targets the country’s poorest households.The minister expressed hopes that the 2026 budget will include a $50 million allocation, funded by state revenues, to supplement the budget already secured by the World Bank. In 2023, the World Bank approved $300 million in financing for the AMAN program, which was ratified by Parliament in early 2024. Related news: Cooperative employees committee plans strike on July 3 over state workers’ marginalization This would be five times the current funding of $10 million and“would cover one-third of the internal financing needs,” the minister added. The...
Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayyed said Tuesday in Beirut that she has requested a significant increase in the state’s contribution to the World Bank-financed Emergency Social Safety Net Project (ESSN), also known as AMAN, for 2026, which targets the country’s poorest households.The minister expressed hopes that the 2026 budget will include a $50 million allocation, funded by state revenues, to supplement the budget already secured by the World Bank. In 2023, the World Bank approved $300 million in financing for the AMAN program, which was ratified by Parliament in early 2024. Related news: Cooperative employees committee plans strike on July 3 over state workers’ marginalization This would be five times the current funding of $10 million and“would cover one-third of the internal financing needs,” the minister...
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