Speeding up transitions to sustainable, prosperous societies in the context of mass displacement, to improve the quality of people’s lives through citizen-led research.
Key Themes:
Operationalising and platforming prosperity (data, interventions, policy)
Transition pathways for energising green futures
Learning and Education for transformation
Citizen-Led Research (Citizen Science Academy)
Platforming Prosperity: Policy Innovation for Value Creation
What we do
Our research and learning is focused on inclusive growth and prosperity. It is about the prosperity of Lebanon in particular, but is also part of a larger agenda for developing sustainable ways to improve the quality of life of people throughout the world.
In the context of Lebanon, developing an agenda of prosperity is particularly urgent because of the pressures that the country is facing as a result of the ongoing refugee crisis. Addressing these challenges through the lens of prosperity increases the potential of future economic development and growth in Lebanon.
PROCOL Lebanon is based on a network of partnerships for citizen-led research, capacity building, place-based interventions and policy design that will demonstrate the means through which transformation for prosperity can be achieved.
Our Citizen Science Methodology
Our sustained Citizen Science method means training and involving local researchers in all phases of the research project, from research design to data collection, to data analysis to project proposal and implementation. This work falls within the Citizen Science Academy.
With local communities, we explore how promoting and creating pathways for prosperity can improve people’s quality of life. Our work focuses on building capacities that can help citizens and stakeholders acquire skills and organise into communities of practice that address emergent challenges.
We work with new learning methodologies to enhance the skills of people living in Lebanon, in the fields of sustainable design, post-conflict urban regeneration, and education.
Projects
Livelihoods and Politics
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Mar Mikhael Vulnerabilities
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Mina Prosperity
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Hamra Prosperity
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Latest Publications
Working Paper
The Politics of International Assistance in Lebanon: an Evaluation of the IMF's Loan Conditions as a Pathway to Inclusive Growth
Balsam Gharib, Nikolay Mintchev et al.
Working Paper
Vitality in Work: Stories from Ras Beirut Lives and Livelihoods in Turbulent Times Working Paper Series (Vol.3)
Lara Sabra, Nessim Stevenson
