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This document is a UN Women – REACH Lebanon Gender Snapshot based on the 2025 Multisectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA). It summarizes how Lebanon’s overlapping crises are affecting Lebanese households through a gender, age, disability, and geographic lens.

It highlights which household profiles face the sharpest deprivations, especially female-headed households and households with persons with disabilities and translates the evidence into sector findings (food security, shelter, livelihoods, health, WASH, education, protection, AAP) plus priority actions to inform the Lebanon Response Plan 2026.

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This report presents the key results, achievements and lessons learned from the CERF-funded humanitarian intervention implemented by UN Women Lebanon between January and July 2025 in response to the escalating hostilities and worsening socioeconomic crisis in the country. Implemented across five governorates, South Lebanon, Nabatieh, Baalbek-Hermel, Bekaa and Mount Lebanon, the six-month programme reached 24,496 direct beneficiaries and an estimated 45,697 indirectly through multi-sectoral assistance including emergency cash support, winterization and hygiene kits, food assistance, legal services and gender-based violence awareness, with particular focus on women with disabilities, undocumented individuals and female-headed households.

The intervention highlighted the importance of locally led, gender-responsive humanitarian action in strengthening protection, dignity and resilience for crisis-affected women and girls. The report also identifies key lessons for future responses, including the need to strengthen vulnerability targeting, simplify eligibility procedures and integrate legal protection as a core component of emergency assistance to support more inclusive and effective humanitarian programming.