Within the framework of “Accountability and Good Governance” Network supported by USAID, and as part of a consortium with North LEDA, ArabiaGIS started the phase two of Baldati Madinati as part of a grant from Baladi CAP to improve transparency and access to information North Lebanon. The municipalities will be selected from three clusters “Union of Fayhaa – Tripoli”, “Union of Jurd Al-Qaytaa – Akkar” and “Cluster of Hadath Al-Jebbeh – Becharre” to establish an interactive forum where citizens and municipal institutions exchange information. The project aims at working with advocacy champions within local communities to advocate municipalities to publish municipal data on BALADI CAP supported “Baldati – Madinati” online Forum. Another objective is to allow citizens ...

In order to increase our reach in our mobilization and awareness workshops, we agreed to conduct a second workshop in Beirut on Tuesday January 9th at the Municipality of Sin el Fil with the opinion leaders that were not residing in Jezzine area for a better engagement with maximum number of supporters to our initiative. More than 20 opinion leaders and gatekeepers attended the workshop  such as priests, doctors, engineers, landowners, “Mokhtar”,

On Thursday December 14th, AGIS and SeD held the first workshop with opinion leaders from the five municipalities to present and discuss the « Baldati: An Open and Social Web City » project. Arround 30 attendees joined our workshop, such as bank managers, school principals, association directors, landowners, tradespeople, “Mokhtar”. Opinion leaders pointed out the lack of communication of their municipalities that reflected little transparency.