Mission
LRI aims to expand, manage and protect Lebanon’s forests and landscapes through a community-based approach. We work on building resilient communities to environmental threats, increasing environmental awareness and education, advocating for forest conservation, and advancing research in the forestry field.
Understanding Disaster risk: LRI works on awareness activities and research studies on forest fires, soil erosion and landsliding risks.
Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience: LRI has several projects working with local communities to reduce fire risk through proper forest management, and reduce soil erosion and landsliding through landscape restoration activities.
Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to «Build Back Better»: LRI works with the lebanese civil defense and municipalities to better equip and build the capacities of local volunteers for adequate response and preparedness for natural disasters.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Commitments (SFVC) online platform serves to incentivize stakeholders to inform the public about their work, to provide a vehicle for sharing commitments and initiatives and for motivation toward the implementation of the Sendai Framework. In turn, UNDRR can monitor and take stock of the progress and impact.
Lebanon Reforestation Initiative is involved in the following commitments:
