Lebanon Situation Report #7 - February 2025

The humanitarian situation in Lebanon remains critical, with nearly 100,000 people still internally displaced and over 88,000 new refugees arriving from Syria. Women and girls face heightened protection risks, including gender-based violence, due to displacement, overcrowded shelters, and damaged infrastructure. Health systems are overstretched, and access to maternal, mental health, and psychosocial support services remains limited, particularly in conflict-affected areas.

UNFPA is responding by delivering life-saving sexual and reproductive health and protection services through 63 primary healthcare centres, 14 mobile medical units, and 10 women and girls’ safe spaces. Services include maternal care, clinical management of rape, psychosocial support, cash assistance, and the distribution of over 18,000 dignity kits. UNFPA also supports Lebanon’s only shelter for gender-based violence survivors in the south and continues prevention activities in areas experiencing ongoing hostilities.

However, a severe funding shortfall is threatening the continuity of these essential services. As of February 2025, only 14 per cent (US$5.6 million) of UNFPA’s US$40 million appeal has been secured. The termination of major grants, including US funding, has already led to the closure of safe spaces and reduced access to sexual and reproductive health services. UNFPA urgently calls on donors to increase support to sustain critical health and protection services for Lebanon’s most vulnerable women and girls.