Benghazi Municipality and the delegation of the UN Support Mission in Libya studied on Tuesday the means to implement the UN Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) to develop and create stabilizing actors in the city.
During their meeting, the UNSMIL and Benghazi Municipality tackled the program of empowering women and ways to enable the youth to acquire skills needed for their careers.
In November 2017, the HRP was developed in close collaboration with the Libyan authorities and stakeholders to meet the needs of Libyans.
HRP strategy is anchored around three main axes, including a rapid response for emergency and life-saving assistance, multisectoral assistance targeting the most vulnerable people and households and restoring basic functionality and access to services.
Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city and the birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi, witnessed a three-year war between Commander of Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar and extremist militants.
The war left the citizens of the eastern city living in destroyed buildings and rubbles and suffering from the lack of basic services.
In January, Libyan army spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari said the war on terror in Benghazi killed more than 5,000 soldiers.
“All the military operations in the city have ended, and terrorism has been eliminated after our forces fought battles from the Benina Air Base to Sidi Ekhrebish (central Benghazi),” Mismari said in a press conference.
The army announced then taking control of the whole area of Sidi Ekhrebish in central Benghazi, the last terrorist stronghold in the city, after operations that lasted for more than five months. Dozens of extremists fled after the army forces took control of the area.
