United States Agency for International Development

(USAID)

Lebanon

Lebanon Corruption Initiative Report Lebanon

   The study will cover operational definition of corruption, cross cultural prevalence of corruption, civic virtue, ravaging effects of corruption, Lebanon as a case study, political history of Lebanon, corruption, government and corruption, the judiciary system and corruption, press/media and corruption, society and corruption, economy and corruption, remedies, recommendations, and challenges to reform.

October 1999

USAID

Workshop: Anti Corruption Action Plan

 The workshop material was based on the results of a comprehensive opinion survey identifying the sources and reasons of corruption in Lebanon. The workshop aimed at developing an anti-corruption action plan related to Lebanon’s political and administrative structure, judiciary and supervisory authorities, media and press, NGOs, economy and education

May 2000

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) - Lebanon

UN Corruption- Country Assessment Report

  Study of the phenomenon of corruption in Lebanon. The study incorporates 13 focus group discussions, 3 case studies and the desk research. The findings will be compiled in a country assessment report

March 2001

Transparency International/ Amideast

Corruption Perception Index (CPI)

This survey conducted in Lebanon, Sudan, Bahrain and UAE aims at finding out whether companies from some countries or sectors have a tendency to bribe senior public officials to acquire or retain business.

August 2003

International Management and Training Institute (IMTI)

YMCA

Civil Society Index

As part of the Civil Society Index implemented in Lebanon in collaboration with CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizens Participation),Information International conducted a Community Sampling research referring to the data collection method of face-to-face interviews with individual respondents about relevant attitudes and behavior in a selection of communities across the country.

The objective of the study is to measure the status of the Lebanese Community's involvement in civil work.  CIVICUS defines the civil community as "Any area excluding the government, family and market where people meet to work on achieving common goals".

February 2004

Arab Center for the Rule of Law and Integrity (ACRLI)

Good Governance and the Rule of Law in Arab Countries

  The study aims at measuring the status of the rule of law in the following Arab Countries: Morocco, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. The study has been requested by the Arab Center for the Rule of Law and Integrity in coordination with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The study will cover three sectors: the Judiciary sector, the Media sector and the Parliamentary sector.

June 2006

Zeina Saab

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

USA

Reconciliation through Reintegration: a Study on Spatial Proximity and Social Relations in Two Post-Civil War Beirut Neighborhoods

The project consists of conducting interviews with residents in Ras Al Nabaa and Badaro to understand why these two neighborhoods are experiencing some degree of sectarian integration. The study will try to assess why the newcomers are choosing to reside in a neighborhood where they are religious minority rather than reside in a more homogeneous neighborhood, in addition to studying the effect of spatial proximity on social relations.

July 2008

Pursue Ltd

Cyprus

Socio-Demographics and Violent Conflict in Three Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon

Information International will conduct face to face interviews with a sample of 1,500 residents in the following three Palestinian camps in Lebanon: Ein El Helweh, Nahr El Bared and Beddawi in order to better assist governmental and non-governmental organizations in planning social services in these communities.

A representative sample of households in each of the three camps will be surveyed about the following issues: their household demographics; Employment/earning/education and other characteristics; their experiences with violence over the past 2 years and who committed these acts against them and their families; Emotional feelings and questions about their attitudes surrounding camp governance, the Lebanese government, and security.

October 2009

Social Impact

Under Fund from USAID

United States of America

Data collection and assessment of bi-lateral donor, INGO, and national and community-based NGO’s activities that support Lebanese communities hosting Syrian refugees and reporting on present needs of hosting communities. 

The project aims at providing the Client with a clear and facts-based understanding of the impacts of the Syrian unrest on Lebanese communities and Lebanese citizens. This would be achieved through providing access to current and relevant data on project activities and interventions undertaken by all donors working in Lebanon with Lebanese Syrian refugee host communities and the results of their work that would provide USAID with a clear understanding of the interventions and allow USAID to lead the donor discussions on possible quick impact community-based assistance that would be needed ; and, To have the ability to accurately and effectively target quick-impact assistance through existing development mechanisms that brings short-term livelihood benefit and visibility in the most critical communities (especially North, Tripoli, Bekaa, South, Saida, and Mt. Lebanon).

To achieve the objective set out above, Information International conducted desk research (Reports and Newspapers Review, phone calls with Municipalities and Mukhtars, existing reports and assessments on the host community needs from relevant NGOs as well as published reports by  UNHCR); Assessment Field Visits; Create a working (live) tracking sheet of community-based needs that allows USAID to accurately and efficiently report publically on the needs of Lebanese communities that host Syrian refugees and how those needs are being addressed.

April 2013

New York University- Abu Dhabi

UAE

Religious Identity and Intergroup Cooperation: An Experiment in Lebanon

The research experiment aims to explore the nature of intergroup cooperation among Lebanon’s three largest religious communities: Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and Christians. Specifically, under what conditions individuals from these communities are likely to (i) favor coalitions with co-religionists, (ii) favor coalitions with individuals of a different religion (iii) or to favor a broad Shia-Sunni-Christian coalition.

The study was achieved through conducting a series of simulated elections in sessions with the residents of Beirut from three communities (Shia, Sunni and Christians). Participants in the research study will be asked to choose between leaders of different religious identities proposing different redistributive policies if elected. The proposal of the elected leader will be implemented and will directly affect the amount of money that participants receive at the completion of simulated elections. Sixteen (16) sessions were conducted, each session consisting of four (4) groups of five (5) participants each (2 Sunni, 2 Shiaa and 1 Christian participant per group), with a total of 320 participants. 

April 2016

New York University- Abu Dhabi

UAE

Crossing the Religious Divide: An Experiment on Deliberation and Inter-Sectarian Cooperation  in Lebanon

The aim of the project is to establish under what conditions individuals from different religious confessions might be encouraged to cooperate with one another in the context of simulated elections. 360 participants from Beirut (180 Sunni and 180 Shia’a) aged between 18-64 years will be split at random into groups of six: 3 Sunni and 3 Shia’a in every group. Five groups/tables of six will participate in the project in a given session, with a total of 12 sessions to be conducted. Prior to the simulated elections, some groups of participants will be shown a 20-30 minute video of a discussion among experts on the benefits of inter-sectarian cooperation. Some groups of participants will also have a chance to engage in a discussion about inter-sectarian cooperation following the video. Some participants will be offered money in secret by election brokers to only support candidates of the same religious confession as the participant. This study design will provide an opportunity to measure the effect of exposure to an expert discussion on inter-sectarian cooperation (and subsequent group discussion) on the participants’ willingness to (i) accept money to vote for candidates from the same religious group as them, to (ii) support political candidates from a different sectarian group, and (iii) engage in other-regarding allocation behavior in distributive games.

November 2016

Public Policy Group and Immigration Policy Lab ETH Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Understanding the Dynamics of Refugee Return

The study aims at understanding the factors that determine the return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon. The collection of information for the full scope of the study was achieved through conducting a quantitative survey (face to face interviews), using tablets, with a sample of 3,000 Syrian refugees in approximately 120 villages in 60 cadastral areas that are spread across all the governorates of Lebanon.

October 2019