Program Summary

Launched in 2001, the AMIDEAST-administered, USAID-funded Transparency and Accountability Grants (TAG) Program has made it possible for a broad spectrum of Lebanese nongovernmental organizations to engage in short-term, high-impact activities that promote transparency, accountability, and good governance. Grants funded by this program also contributed to strengthening the capacity of Lebanon’s vibrant civil society sector to address important issues in diverse areas, including environmental protection, citizen and women’s rights, government transactions, democratic practice, rule of law, citizen participation, lobbying, and capacity building of nongovernmental organizations. The cooperative agreement that USAID awarded to AMIDEAST to administer the TAG Program ended in December 2010.