THE MISSION, THE OBJECTIVES AND THE PROGRAMS OF YMCA, 3V, AND MASHROUH3 WATTAN IN LEBANON

We publish below a comparison between the MISSIONS, the OBJECTIVES, and the PROGRAMS of the second batch of three Lebanese non governmental organizations (NGO) as published by these organizations on the web: MASHROUH3 WATTAN, YOUNG MEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA), and THE THIRD VOICE (3V)

Our objective is to study this information with a view to find a common denominator among these NGOs and convince them to work together upon elaborating a Lebanese National Development Plan for the  four years that will follow the next Parliamentary elections.

A major purpose of that National Plan (LNDP) will be to provide the Authorities, Parliament, as well as Civil Society in Lebanon with a "YARDSTICK" to measure the performance of the governments who will assume the responsibility of running the country during that period.

In this way, we hope to achieve our goal of introducing within the Lebanese Administration the principles of participative governance, i.e. participative planning, participative budgetting, and participative follow-up...