Akkarouna

Empowering individuals & institutions to be part of a prosperous society while employing our resources to achieve a multi-dimensional & sustainable development. Akkarouna is a local non-profit NGO that is managing 3 office in the Northern Region of Lebanon, Namely in Akkar, Tripoli and Baddawi. Its aim is to achieve sustainable socio-economic growt... h through youth, women and children empowerment by building their capacities, enhancing community networks, implementing development projects and spreading awareness about rights and citizenship under 5 pillars: Shelter, Protection, Social Stability, Livelihood and Governance. Akkarouna works as a humanitarian response, in order to build resilience against impact of the influx of refugees to an already weak and vulnerable region, which has impacted life in Lebanon on many crosscutting levels. Akkarouna has incorporated into its mission the following UN Sustainable Development Goals 1st, 5th, 8th and 11th which are respectively ending poverty, achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls, creating decent work and economic growth, and lastly building towards sustainable cities and communities. Protection is concerned with the safety, dignity and rights of people affected by disaster or armed conflict. The Humanitarian Charter summaries some of the most fundamental rights involved in humanitarian response. This chapter is concerned with the way these rights should inform humanitarian practice from a protection perspective and, specifically, the way agencies can avoid exposing the affected population to further harm and how they can help people to achieve Governance comprises all of the processes of governing whether undertaken by the government of a state, by a market or by a network over a social system a family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories, and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society. A livelihood is a means of making a living. It encompasses peoples capabilities, assets, ...Read More