IBRAHIM ABD EL AL Foundation, is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the realization of the human right to water and sanitation.
The Ibrahim AbdEl Al Foundation (IAAF) for Sustainable Development is a scientific non-governmental organization (NGO), specialized in water and energy issues. Its main goal is to conserve water resources, in order to sustain livelihood. In the context of the water-food-energy nexus, the IAAF is actively promoting irrigation projects to increase the cultivated area in accordance with the populatio
n growth, along with organizing awareness and capacity building for sustainable agriculture, promoting ways to stop soil erosion. In terms of legislation reforms, the IAAF has established a draft law for the creation of water users associations. IAAF is promoting the implementation of the second phase of the Litani River project, stressing that the energy production in the country should increase simultaneously from hydro-power and thermal plants. IAAF is promoting the climate change criteria to be inserted in any development project in the country. IAAF’s strategy is to improve water and energy management, which is embodied in its ongoing public participation program since its inception, adapted to the country’s cultural context. This program focuses on human interactions and dialogue and is implemented through workshops, open houses, informal small group meetings, interviews and awareness campaigns for Integrated Water Resource Management. Through this approach, IAAF tackles several subjects like alleviating poverty, increasing gender equality, providing opportunities for social growth and a better educated population, ensuring environmental sustainability, democracy, equity and legality, water values and water integrity. For IAAF, water is life and it must be preserved.
