Manual for the implementation of Municipal Health Committees in Lebanon

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This manual is a practical guide to strengthening local health governance, particularly in Lebanon. It was produced by the ReBUILD team at American University of Beirut and captures the team’s learning from their sustained engagement with local actors to explore how health governance can be rooted more closely in the realities of communities.

Through a participatory and embedded approach implemented over four years in Majdal Anjar, municipalities, health stakeholders, and community members worked together to design and operationalise a model of local health governance that is responsive, inclusive, and grounded in lived experience.

The manual covers creating and operating a Municipal Health Committee, with template documents to aid creating terms of reference, reports, needs assessments and other functions.

Further information

There’s more on the study that led to this manual here – Understanding and developing a resilient health system in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon

Case study: Read how these guidelines were conceived, developed and refined