Lebanon

Despite an extremely challenging environment, Lebanon’s clearance output increased significantly in 2025. This increase was driven by an increase in surface clearance of cluster munition remnants (CMR), and a return to clearance following the focus on survey in 2024. This progress, however, happened against a backdrop of a rise in overall contamination due to newly identified legacy and recent CMR. Ongoing insecurity and restricted access in the southern border areas are major obstacles. Lebanon continues to face critical funding and capacity shortages, alongside a shift in priorities towards emergency unexploded ordnance (UXO) and rubble clearance in response to the ongoing airstrikes, which further stretch resources and endanger the lives of clearance personnel.

• All implementing agencies in Lebanon should routinely conduct technical survey (TS) in the release of CMR tasks.

• Lebanon Mine Action Centre (LMAC) should submit a detailed costed work plan following the completion of survey of new CMR that includes annual targets for clearance and details operational capacity needs.

• LMAC should also elaborate a plan for completing clearance of CMR in difficult terrain, including the number and size of tasks concerned.

• LMAC should develop a multi-year resource mobilisation plan to support strategic planning, reduce operational disruptions, and improve staff retention among clearance operators.

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