Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction

[1] Directly accountable to the prime minister, it was intended to assess infrastructural needs arising from Lebanon's civil war and allocate international and Lebanese aid for rebuilding the country.

It committed $454 million in 1978 towards housing, road repairs, transport and rebuilding Beirut International Airport.

International pledges of support were never completely forthcoming, and the organization faltered in the late 1980s.

[2] After the Ta'if Accord the CDR was refounded, gaining new legal powers in 1992 and becoming an important instrument for prime minister Rafic Hariri.

[1] CDR is engaged in all phases of project implementation from planning, feasibility analysis, detailed design, bidding, expropriation, execution, and operation and maintenance of most public facilities on the behalf of the Government of Lebanon or other Lebanese public establishments.

CDR Perspective
Medieval Architecture from the Ottoman Era
Inner Facade in the Historical Building