RELIEF 2

自2017年以来，救济中心与公民、非政府组织和其他利益攸关方合作，为黎巴嫩社区提供社会包容、可持续性和更好的生活质量的研究和行动方案。然而，在此期间，黎巴嫩经历了一些根本性的变化和悲剧：2019年政治抗议活动后政府不稳定；2020年8月4日在贝鲁特港发生的可怕爆炸；经济崩溃和货币贬值；公共服务和基础设施普遍失灵；以及一系列与新冠肺炎相关的封锁，给经济带来了进一步的压力。在这种危机加剧的背景下，国际救济组织的工作基于这样一种观点，即黎巴嫩未来的复苏必须遵循包容性增长和繁荣的原则，即起点和主要重点不是国内生产总值的总体增长，而是人们提高生活质量所需的东西——有保障的生计、清洁和负担得起的服务、良好的教育以及安全、健康和包容的环境。然而，在黎巴嫩经济和政治动荡的背景下，“自下而上”的倡议对于制定解决方案至关重要。因此，RELIEF的工作重点是持续发展能力，帮助公民和社区获得技能，并组织成应对紧急挑战的实践社区。在今后5年里，救济中心的第二阶段（救济II）将侧重于加强现有能力，以进行公民主导的研究、行动和变革。RELIEF II将建立在项目第一阶段建立的五种能力的基础上（见附录表1）：繁荣伙伴关系——一个跨学科的利益相关者生态，通过共同致力于研究和行动来实现积极的变化，以公民主导的繁荣指数（PI）为基础。-理论和概念-理解繁荣背景的概念框架，适应具有挑战性的环境的新教学法，并理解面临长期危机的城市的活力。-方法-公民主导的研究，数据分析，MOOC开发和城市干预设计的新方法。-数据-定量和定性数据集，包括关于生活质量的住户调查、关于住房和邻里基础设施（能源、水、废物、粮食和运输）质量的调查，以及关于繁荣优先领域的访谈和焦点小组。-资金——提供额外资金，支持基础设施、生计、教育、创业以及宜居和包容性城市等关键主题的研究和干预措施。第二期救济将继续扩大这些能力，并利用它们来开展有影响的活动/产出，包括出版物、能力建设、城市干预、创造教育资源和创新政策倡议。这些产出将通过外联活动和活动以及通过繁荣平台向黎巴嫩和国际上更广泛的受众传播。影响将通过五个工作包（WPs）来传递和嵌入，每个工作包都有其目标、可交付成果和受益者：（WPs）黎巴嫩繁荣指数的制定、可视化和应用；（WP2）继续、更新和扩展RELIEF的网上课程，以及在参与式网上教育方法方面的研究和政策工作；（WP3）利用公共服务设计的参与性机制作为推进黎巴嫩绿色新政的基础；（WP4）创建公民科学学院，该学院将成为公民主导的研究和培训方法创新的全球领导者；（WP5）创建一个在线平台，就黎巴嫩生计、公共服务、卫生和教育等主要挑战提供创新的知识共享、政策设计和政策变革途径。

Since 2017, the RELIEF Centre has worked with citizens, NGOs, and other stakeholders to deliver a programme of research and action towards social inclusion, sustainability and better quality of life for communities in Lebanon. During this time, however, Lebanon experienced a number of radical changes and tragedies: destabilisation of government following the 2019 political protests; the horrendous blast in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020; an economic collapse and currency devaluation; widespread failure of public services and infrastructure; and a series of Covid-related lockdowns that have exerted further pressure on the economy. In this context of compounded crises, RELIEF's work proceeds from the view that future recovery in Lebanon must follow principles of inclusive growth and prosperity, whereby the starting point and primary focus is not aggregate GDP-growth but the things that people need for better quality of life -secure livelihoods, clean and affordable services, good education, and safe, healthy and inclusive environments. In the Lebanese context of economic and political turmoil, however, 'bottom-up' initiatives are essential for developing solutions. RELIEF's work thus focuses on the sustained development of capabilities that can help citizens and communities acquire skills and organise into communities of practice that address emergent challenges. Over the next 5 years, the second phase of the RELIEF Centre (RELIEF II) will focus on strengthening existing capabilities for citizen-led research, action, and transformation. RELIEF II will build on five types of capability that were established in the first phase of the project (see Appendix Table 1):- Partnerships for prosperity - a trans-disciplinary ecology of stakeholders, brought together by a shared commitment to research and action for positive change, underpinned by a citizen-led prosperity index (PI). - Theories and concepts - conceptual frameworks for understanding prosperity in context, adapting new pedagogies for challenging environments, and making sense of the vitality of cities facing prolonged crises. - Methods - new approaches to citizen-led research, data analysis, MOOC development, and urban intervention design. - Data - quantitative and qualitative data sets, including household surveys on quality of life, surveys on quality of housing and neighbourhood infrastructures (energy, water, waste, food and transport), and interviews and focus groups about priority areas for prosperity. - Funding - streams of additional funding to support research and interventions on the key themes of infrastructure, livelihoods, education, entrepreneurship and liveable and inclusive cities.RELIEF II will continue to expand these capabilities and use them to create impact activities/outputs, including publications, capacity building, urban interventions, creation of educational resources, and innovative policy initiatives. These outputs will be disseminated to wider audiences both in Lebanon and internationally through outreach events and activities, and by a prosperity platform. Impact will be delivered and embedded through five work packages (WPs), each with its objectives, deliverables, and beneficiaries: (WP1) development, visualization, and application of a Prosperity Index for Lebanon; (WP2) the continuation, updating, and expansion of RELIEF's online courses, as well as its research and policy work on participatory approaches to online education; (WP3) the use of participatory mechanisms for public service design as the basis for advancing a Green New Deal for Lebanon; (WP4) the creation of a Citizen Science Academy, which will be a global leader in methodological innovation for citizen-led research and training; and (WP5) the creation of an online platform to deliver innovative knowledge sharing, policy design and pathways to policy change on key challenges of livelihoods, public services, health and education in Lebanon.