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Project to pay official compensation to the owners of the destructed buildings and economic institutions

 

"Victory is not complete but by the complete of reconstruction", and the return of people to their villages and their livelihood to that the social and economic life is restored. Based on the said slogan, came the plan to pay "the difference of official compensation for the owners of destructed buildings and economic institutions", or "paying in advance 40% or 60%" in both south and Bekaa.

That was after the organization found that it is not fair to treat destroyed units on the same basis (i.e. pay 50 million Lebanese Liras), for there are big and small units. Therefore, Jihad al Binaa adopted a mechanism of payment based on calculating the cost of reconstruction in accordance with the area of the building, and from the numbers reached by the organization, the amount due from the state is set.

The Difference of Compensation = (cost of reconstruction according to the level of finishing + area) – the official compensation

Jihad al Binaa was able to accomplish this file in the Bekaa Valley in only one month, to move to paying in the south within three months. As for Beirut, the reconstruction operation was ongoing under the custody of project WAAD. Compensations for some 2480 demolished buildings were paid.

Jihad al Binaa's initiative came with two basic considerations: first is the delay by the government to disburse dues set for those affected, and thus most of the people cannot afford the burden of reconstruction alone. Second, the amounts allocated by the government, i.e. 60 million L.L per housing unit (regardless of the area), and 300,000 L.L per square meter for the organizations, are not enough to rebuild what was destroyed, especially in light of the rising prices of building materials.

It should be noted that the compensation difference for organizations is related only to the cost of reconstruction, and does not include damages, economic losses of goods, materials and others. It's recalled that earlier, the affected people received a percentage of the damage as a gift to the owners of these institutions from Hizbullah Secretary General.

Jihad al Binaa established two offices in the south and another in the Bekaa in the service of the people benefiting from its project. This was after the south was divided into two areas; southern and northern the Laytani River, where in the southern part was the main bulk of destruction. The division was to facilitate the communication with the affected, and prevent transportation hardship.

As for the main difficulties faced by the institution it is represented by:

The lack of information about the buildings and the difficulty of collecting them due to the absence of field survey in villages and cities for the buildings located within the range of municipalities. Therefore the data was collected from different sources like municipalities, mayors, aerial surveillances, statements from various sources in the town, official documents (building permits or building settlement…).

The lack of coordination between the civil society associations and organizations during and after the war, led to the dispersion of efforts and duplication of work by more than one side.