The United Nations has released its 2022 Results Report in Libya. This highlights the efforts of 16 UN agencies, funds, and programs, and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to support sustainable peace and development for people in Libya. The report emphasizes the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the most effective way to address the root causes of conflict and foster peace and reconciliation.
In 2022, the UN implemented 108 projects in 28 locations, including 75 nationally implemented projects that supported improved core government functions, stimulated economic recovery, and built capacity for quality social-service delivery. These projects benefited thousands of people across the country. The UN also facilitated dialogue among political actors, civil society, and various Libyans across the country to support a path to sustainable peace and inclusive, credible national elections. The UN provided technical support on constitutional, legal, and electoral issues and empowered networks of local mediators to advance comprehensive and rights-based national reconciliation.
Additionally, the UN worked to strengthen women’s participation in public and political life, provided technical support to enhance child protection and youth justice, and supported community security by providing explosive ordnance risk education.
To stimulate economic recovery, the UN provided job training, livelihood support opportunities, and innovative business start-up initiatives to more than 76,000 people, including youth and women across the country. It also worked to improve industrial effectiveness in select sectors, such as agriculture and fisheries. The UN worked with municipalities and the Ministries of Local Governance and Planning to develop strategic, medium-term municipal development plans, and strengthen the work of municipal councils, including on delivery of resilient and responsive social services.
The UN provided access to protection support for the most vulnerable people, including migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and persons with special needs, and 60% of Libya’s population had their access to basic social services – healthcare, education, sanitation, and nutrition – restored or maintained in 2022. The number of internally displaced people in Libya decreased due to the country’s relatively stable security situation, and the UN’s efforts with Libyan authorities to resolve peoples’ humanitarian and displacement-related needs and find durable solutions for them. At the end of 2022, the UN estimated that 125,000 people remained internally displaced in Libya, representing a 60% decrease, since the October 2020 ceasefire agreement.
Over the next three years, the UN’s development efforts in Libya will be guided by the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2023-2025), which aligns the work of UN and government actors on four shared strategic priorities and two collective outcomes. The Cooperation Framework is a key tool to implement the SDG’s and support inclusive, diversified economic growth that advances the human rights, and well-being of all people in Libya. The UN in Libya aims to implement the new Cooperation Framework with the government of Libya and development partners through improved strategic coordination and financing for the SDG’s and Agenda 2030.