Market Readiness Analysis

3- PRIORITISATION RESULTS
Following the guidelines of the simplified prioritization methodology, this study was
conducted in 6 steps:
- Step 1: Identification of all Lebanese government priorities regarding
sustainability issues.
- Step 2: Reduction of the above exhaustive long-list of priorities into a shorter list
regrouping top priorities.
- Step 3: Translation of the short-list issues into risk questions.
- Step 4: Analysis of the public spend areas simultaneously with previous step.
- Step 5: Selection of the public spend areas having the highest impact on
sustainable development.
- Step 6: Formulation of strategic recommendations based on the risk/value matrix.
3.1- Identifying sustainability impacts
In order to create a long-list of sustainability issues, the following sources of data were
considered:
- Professional documents and reports prepared by the UNDP and the World Bank
(Plan Bleu 3 , Cost of Environment Degradation 4 , State of the Environment 5 ) were
also considered
- Official documents relative to different Lebanese ministries, i.e. Ministry of
Environment, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Tourism,
etc. relating to mission, objectives, undergoing programs, and potential ones.
- Different current and up-to-date articles taken from the Lebanese written and online
press releases.
3 “Mediterranean Country Profile: Lebanon – Environment and sustainable development issues and policies”, (1999),
Plan Bleu
4 “Cost of Environmental Degradation – The Case of Lebanon and Tunisia”, (2004), Maria Sarraf, Bjorn Larsen and
Marwan Owaygen, The World Bank Environment Department, Environmental Economics Series, Paper n°97.
5 “Lebanon State of the Environment Report”, (2001), ECODIT and Ministry of Environment/ LEDO
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