No direction home

An end to the Syrian civil war does not seem likely in 2015, meaning that Lebanon will continue to host over 1 million refugees even as the government tries to limit the flow of new arrivals. Executive spoke with Ninette Kelley, representative of UNHCR, about what the government should do in 2015, what impact funding shortages have on meeting refugee needs and on leveraging Lebanon’s private sector.   What recommendations do you have for the Lebanese government on the policy level for 2015? We hope that we can do something similar to the RACE [Reaching All Children with Education] initiative which boosted Lebanese public education in other areas such as health, so that this crisis can actually create some opportunities and provide more focus and support to institutions who needed it before the crisis, but who really need it now. [We also hope] that support will have a longer projection