Usaid Awards $17 Million To The Center For Legislative Development To Continue Strengthening Lebanese Municipal Governments

USAID awards award a $17 million, three-year grant to the Center for Legislative Development to continue strengthening Lebanese municipal governments. The goal is to strengthen democracy in Lebanon by creating transparent local governments, encouraging economic development and e-government, and strengthening municipal administrative and financial capacities. The Center for Legislative Development has been working in Lebanon since 1993 and was a recipient of an earlier $25 million grant to strengthen parliamentary functions, several executive agencies, and some municipalities there.

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Michael Parker, "USAID Awards UAlbany $17 Million to Bolster Democracy in Lebanon," Update, February 4, 2005, pp. 1 and 7