Supply of A Small Equipped 2WD Fire Fighting Truck ‎MASAR-LB-VNGI-022-SP/2022

The MASAR for Local Governments Programme (Maintaining Strength and Resilience) funded by the EU MADAD trust fund, seeks to build the institutional capacity and strengthen the resilience of local governments and their host, displaced and refugee populations.

The MASAR programme targets three areas in Lebanon heavily affected by the refugee crisis, mainly Akkar, Baalbek-Hermel, and the coastal plain north of Tripoli. By focusing on improving area-based planning, service delivery and local economic development, the programme seeks to help local governments develop long-term solutions to the challenges they face.

VNG International (the International Cooperation Agency of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities), being one of the four consortium partners of MASAR project  is implementing a pilot project in the Area of the Union of Deir El Ahmar, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate  to increase the hazard and risk preparedness of the Municipaliy of Arsal . After conducting a thorough hazard risk assessment , the decision was to form 2 first reponders teams and capacitate them through trainings in urban fire- fighting, evacuations and first aid procedures, and  to  equip them with the right tools to carry their tasks according to international safety procedures.  Supplying the municipality with a small fire truck to help fight urban fire control by the first repsonders teams, serves that purpose