LIMS Leaders’ Academy (LLA) 5th yearly edition resumed on October 23 and 24. The in-person workshop gathered 47 leading activists from across Lebanon belonging to grassroots groups seeking change. They passed the first two steps of the Leaders’ Academy and qualified to LLA 301. Participants formed 7 groups, and each group worked with a policy expert on how to draft a compelling free market-policy proposition to deal with an economic challenge, they chose to address.
34 participants belonging to 23 different prominent grassroots movements graduated from LLA 301 and started working on the following reforms:
(1) The case for Federalism in Lebanon, (2) A solution to the struggling medical sector, (3) Renewable energy as a solution to the electricity problem in Lebanon, (4) Waste sorting and recycling to end the garbage problem, (5) The legalization of cannabis (6) Improving women and individuals’ ease to do business, and (7) A consensual program for economic reforms.
The workshop included technical sessions, working groups, presentations, feedback, speed exchanges, and a planetary lecture on beneficial ownership in public procurement, along with a graduation ceremony.
Each group is expected to draft a policy brief and present it at LIMS’ annual policy fair to journalists, experts, academics, political activists and NGOs.