04 December 2024

The Status of Young Children's Development and Nurturing Care in Lebanon

Amid Lebanon’s ongoing multi-faceted crisis, a groundbreaking National report on the status of young children’s development and nurturing care in Lebanon reveals significant challenges faced by young children.The findings underscore the compounding impacts of economic decline, displacement, and food insecurity on ...
23 September 2024

The Unseen Crisis: The prohibitive impact of malnutrition on child growth and development in Lebanon

Almost five years into Lebanon’s devastating multi-pronged crisis, a new national survey reveals that malnutrition keeps worsening at an alarming rate and highlights how children’s health and the development of their young brains are being affected. The survey results come as the country faces an escalation of hos...
12 August 2024

Nutrition and Child Development Programme

Challenge, Lebanon faces overlapping crises impacting children's access to basic services and nutritious diets, leading to a triple burden of malnutrition: stunting, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity. Early childhood stunting and wasting trends persist, while overweight and obesity rise in adolescence. Nutr...
06 June 2024

The Ministry of Public Heath with support of UNICEF adopts the Rising Initiative, as national programme to promote nutrition and early childhood development in Lebanon

06 June 2024 - The Ministry of Public Health, in partnership with UNICEF, announced adoption of the RISING initiative as a national programme to address immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition and early childhood developmental deprivations and impairments among the most vulnerable children in Lebanon. RISI...
19 October 2022

UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health and Lebanon’s Nutrition Sector calls multi-sectoral stakeholders to accelerate efforts to prevent child malnutrition in Lebanon

BEIRUT, 19 October 2022 – UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health and Lebanon’s Nutrition Sector organized a national technical roundtable to address and scale up response on child malnutrition in both development and humanitarian agendas for all children and women in Lebanon. The roundtable was a...
13 October 2022

Health Programme

Challenge, The multiple crises that have plagued Lebanon and left most of the population struggling to survive, have stretched the health system to breaking point, with severe repercussions for children. An exodus of medical professionals, a hiring freeze by health facilities and limitations on imports of medicati...
27 May 2022

UNICEF initiative tackles rising malnutrition in Lebanon

The ever-worsening crisis in Lebanon impacts society’s most vulnerable disproportionately – and none more so than its children. Today, infants, adolescents and women are at particular risk of malnutrition. UNICEF is working with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and partners to ensure every child gets the prope...
18 May 2022

UNICEF supports proper infant and child feeding practices

Today’s complex and multiple crises have left communities in Lebanon prone to food insecurity and malnutrition. Proper infant and young child feeding practices have long lasting healthy outcomes on a child’s life and growth, preventing against malnutrition, various childhood illnesses as well as newborn deaths, an...
15 February 2022

Nutrition in Times of Crisis

As Lebanon reels from a convergence of crises that have plunged the majority of the population into poverty, Lebanon Nutrition Sector launched the results of a new nationwide nutrition survey on under five-year-old children and women tapping on the malnutrition situation in the country, marked by major food and nu...
23 November 2021

“We have to live without basics and cut more and more from our diet”

For most people in Lebanon, surviving has never presented more of a challenge. Two years of massive economic decline and pandemic restrictions have delivered compound demands on the very basics of life. UNICEF-supported programmes are providing access to basic services to families living in vulnerable communities....
23 November 2021

“I have nothing left to sell to help feed my children; nothing left of myself to give”

As Lebanon’s unprecedented economic crisis deepens, the number pushed into severe hardship continues to rise dramatically. The past two years have seen the poverty rate double to 82 per cent. With nearly 4 million people living in poverty today, they represent around 1 million households, including 745,000 Lebanes...
13 August 2021

Lebanon’s families in crisis: Mothers skipping meals so their children can eat

The location of Darb El Seem, along a riverbank on the outskirts of Saida, is idyllic. But for the 250 Syrian refugees – 150 of them children – who live there, the informal settlement is a place of desperation, disease and hunger. Rehaf, a mother of three who lives in one of the 40 tents, says that conditions grad...