(1/7) Despite forecast political paralysis, MPs must capitalise on the opportunities that still exist to help 🇱🇧 secure an IMF lifeline.
More details in the below article by Siren’s research director @CAlsharabati in @lorienttoday ⬇️
today.lorientlejour.com/article/130398… (2/7) Significant opportunities already exist in the areas of public procurement governance, public sector auditing & civil service mapping

1/ Recent attempts by high-level political forces to undermine @CInspectionLB & prevent it from carrying out independent oversight of the state are both legally unsound and ahistorical. The law clearly mandates CI to oversee and inspect the performance of the state. #right2info 2/ The above circular is a dangerous attack on independent #oversight, demanding that @CInspectionLB submit to the executive branch when requesting information on the public sector. CI is legally entitled to review any state document needed to oversee public admins #right2info

1/7 This piece by @sewella @chehayebk highlights well the #transparency concerns of bypassing the state in aid coordination. The valuations given by French & UN officials on total aid received wld be impossible to calculate w/out @LebanonAid & its unclear how they were calculated

https://twitter.com/newhumanitarian/status/1336964127819001857

2/7 The UN says that $340m has been disbursed to #Lebanon since Aug. but only tracks $154.9m on its system, which covers only aid channeled thru UN agencies. The French-led aid initiative meanwhile defers to UN for tracking & hasn’t broken down what each donor country has given.