The Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) is a
Lebanese governmental organisation established in 1977, during the
Lebanese civil war
The Lebanese Civil War ( ) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
The religious diversity of the ...
, which has taken a major role in the sequence of rebuilding the damaged infrastructure of the country.
History
The CDR was established in January 1977.
Directly accountable to the prime minister, it was intended to assess infrastructural needs arising from Lebanon's civil war and allocate international and Lebanese aid for rebuilding the country. It committed $454 million in 1978 towards housing, road repairs, transport and rebuilding
Beirut International Airport
Beirut ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest i ...
. In 1983 it could only raise $571 million of the $15 billion needed to rebuild Lebanon. International pledges of support were never completely forthcoming, and the organization faltered in the late 1980s.
[George E. Irani and As'ad AbuKhalil]
Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)
''Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa'', 2nd ed., Vol. I, p.645, 2004 After the
Ta'if Accord the CDR was refounded, gaining new legal powers in 1992 and becoming an important instrument for prime minister
Rafic Hariri
Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon, prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.
Hariri headed fi ...
.
Current activity
CDR is engaged in all phases of project implementation from planning, feasibility analysis, detailed design, bidding, expropriation, execution, and operation and maintenance of most public facilities on the behalf of the
Government of Lebanon
Lebanon is a Parliamentary republic, parliamentary Democracy, democratic republic within the overall framework of Confessionalism (politics), confessionalism, a form of consociationalism in which the highest offices are proportionately reserv ...
or other Lebanese public establishments.
References
External links
the CDR website
Lebanese governmental organisations
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