Lebanon: Wheat supply emergency response project

The development objective of the Wheat Supply Emergency Response Project for Lebanon is to ensure the availability of wheat in Lebanon, in response to the global commodity market disruptions, and to maintain access to affordable bread by poor and vulnerable households. The project comprises of two components. The first component, financing immediate wheat import needs and maintaining bread access for poor and vulnerable population groups will finance immediate wheat purchases to avoid the disruption of imports in the short term, and its dire socioeconomic implications. The second component, project management and capacity building will finance all aspects of project management, including equipment and materials, consultant costs, compliance with fiduciary, procurement (including internal controls and auditing), and safeguards (environmental and social) requirements (including a citizen engagement mechanism and a strengthened grievance mechanism (GM) for better risk management), monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment, knowledge management and communication.