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Beirut, 31 March 2021 – UN-Habitat’s Regional Technical Offices (RTOs) in Lebanon’s coastal cities of Tyre and Saida have been mobilized to provide critical capacity and technical support to the COVID-19 response.

The RTOs’ involvement directly supported the implementation of the national Government’s national directives on COVID-19 aimed at curbing and responding to the evolving COVID-19 needs through the support of governorates and local authorities. Responding to this call, municipalities and unions of municipalities undertook multiple steps to limit the spread of COVID-19 and respond to the needs of their communities, including the most vulnerable.

“The RTO is of great support, especially because it can adapt to any changes and is able to respond to any interventions including crisis management as shown during the COVID-19 pandemic, and every union/municipality should have an RTO,” said Hassan Dbouk, Mayor of Tyre and Head of the Union of Tyre municipalities

The RTO tool and model was conceptualized by UN-Habitat following the 2006 July War to address the need to enhance the capacities of local authorities in their rebuilding efforts. The RTO approach has provided 14 unions of municipalities with technical support to enhance local governance and capacity building of local authorities, channelling UN-Habitat’s normative expertise to local authorities, through strategic partnerships with municipalities.