Our Partners
Partners Highlights
Since its foundation in 1991, Green Line has been striving to address the increasing and severe environmental degradation of the Lebanese environment and has been working on most environmental issues (sustainable public transport, national energy policy and renewable energy, water supply, water pollution, etc). Green Line has also addressed sensitive issues such as the privatization of public spaces and environmental sites like the coast and green spaces in cities.
The organization’s main mission is to promote environmental awareness and document environmental threat in order to better confront them, thus introducing change at the community level within the concept of sustainable development.
hbs has been supporting Green Line since 2004, especially in their projects on national public transport in Lebanon and their „right to resources“ Campaign which claims clean air, clean and accessible water and accessible public spaces.
ASSABIL is a non-governmental association founded in 1997 in order to establish and promote public libraries in Lebanon that are free and open to all. 25 public libraries all over Lebanon are part of the network, some of them mobile libraries.
ASSABIL sponsors cultural and social activities that encourage people to come to the library and runs training programs for librarians. The association also encourages the production of books and educational materials in Arabic and supports new libraries with their expertise.
hbs has been working with ASSABIL since 2005. The focus is on the training of librarians in order to enhance the outreach of the libraries, a gender sensitive approach in the programming of activities as well as promoting libraries as a space for all citizens.
Legal Agenda is a multidisciplinary non-governmental organization, based in Lebanon. It monitors and analyzes law and public policy in the Arab region and particularly in Lebanon. Legal Agenda publishes a monthly magazine, organizes regional conferences, commissions studies, and hosts panel discussions. In doing so, the organization provides a forum for citizens, experts, and researchers to analyze and debate local and regional legal developments with an emphasis on public accountability. Legal Agenda explores the law’s influence on marginalized groups, including refugees, prisoners, women, homosexuals, the disabled, and laborers.
hbs has been supporting Legal Agenda's magazine "Mufakira al-Qanuniya“ since 2011. 20.000 copies of the magazine are distributed with the Lebanese daily newspaper As-Safir every month. The magazine explains and discusses legal affairs to make them more accessible and understandable for a general audience. Some of the contributions are being translated for the organization's English website.
NAHNOO is a youth-lead organization that aspires to provide a platform for young Lebanese to engage in activities that promote self-development and self-expression and gain the skills necessary to contribute to their communities in a meaningful and peaceful way.
Through discussion groups, social events and workshops on topics such as advocacy, effective communication, conflict resolution, and dialogue management, NAHNOO engages a diverse group of Lebanese youth and acts as a space for free expression and the exchange of ideas.
For the past few years, NAHNOO has been working to develop respect and acceptance of differences between youth in Lebanon, to break psychosocial and cultural borders among them through advocating for public spaces.
Hbs has been supporting NAHNOO’s project „Lobbying for Public Spaces in Lebanon- Horsh Beirut Case“ since 2012. Within this project, NAHNOO seeks appropriated methods and frameworks to properly support the rights of citizens to access, use and enjoy public spaces and mainly Horsh Beirut. Horsh Beirut, the largest public green space in Beirut, is an issue of controversial debates as it is closed to the public for now almost 20 years.