Turn a public problem into a campaign you can carry through
A free campaign dashboard for communities, campaigners and NGOs in Lebanon. Bring the guide, forty-one tools and your campaign record together: identify who can act, choose a formal route, see the political, economic and foreign ties around a decision, build evidence and support, and follow the decision through to implementation. Keep the whole campaign in one file you control, and export a practical manual to use and share with others.
افتح لوحة الحملات بالعربية · ملخّص بالعربية
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Export your own campaign manual
Turn the campaign you design into a practical manual in English or Arabic. Bring your brief, routes, deadlines, maps, records and selected guidance into one PDF to print, use in meetings and share with partners.
Choose what to include and keep restricted records out of shared copies.
How to build your campaign manual →من مشكلة عامة إلى حملة تتابعها حتى التنفيذ
«طريق أقلّ مقاومة» دليل عملي ولوحة مجانية لتخطيط الحملات وإدارتها في لبنان، للمجتمعات المحلية والناشطين ومنظمات المجتمع المدني، وللصحافيين والباحثين والمحامين أيضاً. حدّد الجهة التي تملك صلاحية التحرّك، وقارن المسارات الرسمية، واجمع الأدلة والحلفاء، ثم تابع القرار حتى التنفيذ، مع حفظ عمل الحملة في ملف واحد تتحكّم به.
- مجانية ومن دون حساب، ويبقى عملك محفوظاً على جهازك فقط.
- قارن بين ٢٥ مساراً رسمياً، وتحقّق من وضع الجهة المعنية وتاريخ آخر مراجعة للمعلومات قبل اختيار مسارك.
- صُغ طلبات الحصول على المعلومات بالعربية، واحسب المهل وفق أيام العمل والعطل الرسمية في لبنان، وتابع المسؤوليات والخطوات والأدلة حتى التنفيذ.
- استكشف النقابات والجامعات والجهات الأجنبية والدولية والعلاقات السياسية وملكية وسائل الإعلام، وكيف ترتبط كلّها على خريطة واحدة، مع مصدر كل صلة.
- صدّر الحملة التي تصمّمها في دليل عملي بصيغة PDF، يضم خطتك والخرائط والسجلات والإرشادات التي تختارها، لاستخدامه ومشاركته مع الآخرين.
ترجمة الدليل إلى العربية مسودة قيد المراجعة، وبعض السجلات المرجعية متاحة بالإنجليزية فقط. الوثائق القابلة للطباعة أدناه بالإنجليزية حالياً؛ لطباعة الدليل أو خطة حملتك بالعربية، افتح اللوحة بالعربية واستخدم زر «معاينة PDF».
للمساعدة في تحديد المسار أو الأدلة أو خطوات المتابعة، راسلنا على contact@thecedargrows.com
Connect every step, from demand to delivery
Connect your demand to the body with authority, the procedure that can move it, the people who can help and the evidence of delivery. The dashboard keeps those connections visible as you plan, act and follow up, so your team can see what needs to happen next.
- Define the change you need
Start with a problem, a clear demand, a procedure under way or a decision awaiting implementation. Build a brief that sets out the duty, evidence and remedy.
- Choose a route you can use
Compare 25 formal routes. Check who can start them, what they can deliver and whether the body is functioning. Plan a primary route and a fallback.
- Coordinate the work
Prepare information requests, track deadlines and responsibilities, and link organising and public pressure to the formal step they are meant to advance.
- Verify the result
Follow the decision through implementation, with named owners, dates and proof. Keep a record of what changed and what the next campaign can learn.
A way in for your group, team or investigation
Community groups and first campaigns
Turn a local problem into a specific demand and a first step you can take. A two-minute tour and plain-language help guide you through the tools.
- Find who is responsible and who can act
- See your two most important next steps
- Prepare an information request in Arabic
NGOs and campaign coalitions
Coordinate formal routes, public pressure and follow-through across a team. Keep responsibilities and deadlines visible as partners contribute.
- Plan primary and fallback routes
- Merge partners’ files without overwriting records
- Track deadlines and institutional responses
Journalists, researchers and advisers
Trace responsibility, legal powers, recorded interests and political ties around a decision. Use the same tools to support reporting, legal work or teaching.
- Follow laws to their official Arabic texts
- Map institutions, parties, unions, media and foreign actors on one network
- Compare the experience of 104 campaigns
Lebanese law, institutions, power and campaign experience, connected
Draw on the legal framework, institutional records, political and economic ties and campaign experience together. Each dataset shows its sources and the date it was last checked, so you can verify what you rely on. A blank means not yet established, not zero.
Routes and law
- 25
- formal routes, with who can start each, its trigger, deadline and possible output
- 473
- laws and core instruments, with 437 related decrees, decisions and amendments
- 145
- record holders for information requests, and 44 public holidays and 13 closures for deadlines
- 120
- reforms and commitments to follow up, and 78 public pledges by 25 office holders
Institutions and officials
- 192
- public bodies and offices, with duties, leadership, oversight and legal basis; 117 with a dated status check
- 176
- accountability links between 76 roles: who can act on whom, and through which mechanism
- 1,482
- office holders: 128 MPs, 25 in the cabinet, 9 governors, 17 qaimaqams, 60 union presidents, 935 mayors and 308 deputy mayors
- 12,027
- municipal councillors elected in 2025, across 1,017 councils
Places
- 1,065
- municipalities, mapped with 60 unions, 26 districts and 9 governorates
- 1,545
- cadastral areas on the map, with population, voters and turnout by district
- 186
- civic spaces to meet, learn and organise, on a map with university and college campuses
Power and interests
- 761
- people in the interests map: 689 who hold or held office, from MPs and ministers to mayors, governors and public-body boards (638 reviewed in public sources), and 72 relatives and business partners
- 687
- recorded ownership, board and family links, backed by 1,213 sources
- 128
- media outlets, with owners, boards and political ties where a source records them
- 13,000+
- recorded links across every dataset in the Lebanon Network Map, with grants, loans, sanctions, contracts and other instruments of influence marked
Politics and foreign actors
- 226
- dated political relationships between parties, blocs, MPs, governments, media and foreign states: nominations, endorsements, confidence votes, alliances and ruptures
- 16
- parliamentary committees, with every seat and chair by bloc
- 353
- foreign states, embassies, UN entities, donors and international NGOs, with 120 projects and their partners in Lebanon
Civil society and experience
- 557
- organisations, groups, networks and coalitions, with 810 documented relationships
- 482
- unions, syndicates, professional orders and federations, with 437 legal texts and 1,121 officeholders
- 480
- universities, colleges and technical institutes, with 2,547 legal texts
- 104
- Lebanese campaigns to learn from, with results and unfinished work, and 93 further guides and toolkits
Figures as of 12 November 2026.
Forty-one tools, one connected campaign
The tools are grouped as they are in the dashboard. Read the guidance beside them, check the research behind an entry, and keep your findings with the actions they support. Every person, body, party or organisation opens a profile that shows its links across all the datasets. Select any tool to open it in the dashboard; thirty-one also open without a campaign on the Tools and maps page.
Plan your campaign
Turn the outcome you want into steps, responsibilities, evidence, letters and dates.
Who acts, and where
Find the route, the body with authority and the people who hold office over a place.
Laws, bodies and promises: is it delivered?
Follow up what the state is bound to do, what it has committed to and what office holders have promised. Every record shows what happened and, separately, how sure the evidence is.
Power, ownership and links
Explore documented interests, political ties, foreign involvement and practical influence around the change you need. Recorded links are leads to check, not findings of wrongdoing; nominations and election backing are not shown as membership.
Civil society and learning
Find the partners and places your campaign needs, build on what others have tried, and see what is still unknown.
See how a campaign takes shape
Follow the tools through a fictional campaign to reopen a public park, from the setup wizard to the campaign manual. Select an image to view it full size.
Keep the whole campaign usable
English and Arabic
Plan and work in either language, with information requests drafted in Arabic for filing. The Arabic guide is under review, and some reference records remain in English only.
A campaign file you control
Keep your plan on your device. Save an encrypted file to back it up, move it or share it, and return to any of 25 restore points.
Keep deadlines visible
Calculate deadlines using Lebanese working days and official holidays, with a safer recommended filing date. Dates stay marked “verify” until you confirm them.
Follow a citation to its source
Open a cited law, decree or decision in the law map and follow its link to the official text. Keep the basis for a route close to the plan.
Prepare for blocked routes
Warnings and the Blocked-system radar identify routes that depend on a body recorded as lacking a quorum or not accepting complaints, helping you prepare a fallback.
Export a manual for your campaign
Turn your plan, selected guidance, maps and records into a PDF manual in English or Arabic. Print it, share it with partners and use it as a working reference.
Start with the support you need
Use the first-visit tour, tool-by-tool help and explanations you can tap as you work. Build your plan with optional questions across ten planning steps.
Work as a coalition
Merge partners’ evidence, contacts, actions and deadlines without overwriting your records. Export registers as spreadsheets for the team.
Support when you need it
Ask The Cedar Grows to help you think through a route, evidence, safety or coalition. Suggest corrections as your campaign adds to the shared knowledge.
Bring the framework into a room
Use the guide, worksheets and posters for a workshop, a community meeting or planning without a reliable connection. These documents are currently in English. For Arabic copies of the guide or your plan, open the dashboard in Arabic and use “Preview PDF”.
The Path of Least Resistance
The full framework for designing and carrying through a campaign: Lebanon’s accountability system, 25 formal routes, their triggers, deadlines and bottlenecks, public pressure and implementation. Includes the glossary, sources and appendices.
Use it when you want to understand a route’s requirements, possible remedy and follow-up, or examine the reasoning behind your plan.
Read the guide Download the PDFManual
Keep the Manual beside you as a practical reference while using the campaign dashboard.
Open the Manual DownloadFeature Breakdown
Explore the dashboard’s capabilities and see how its features can support your campaign.
Open the Feature Breakdown DownloadQuick Use Companion
Introduce the campaign framework in a first conversation or planning session, with a shorter document the group can work through together.
Use it for a first session with a community group, team or coalition.
Open the Quick Use Companion DownloadCampaign Toolkit
Editable worksheets for evidence, decisions, responsibilities and implementation. Choose the sheets your campaign needs and build a record the team can keep using.
Tip: download it as a Word file and write in your own copy. Opening it online shows the shared original.
Download the Campaign Toolkit View onlineRoute Companions
Take a chosen route into a planning session. Each three-page companion sets out the route, four practical steps, a public pressure ask, proof of completion and a worksheet.
Use it when you have chosen a route. Each file is named by the route’s code: see which code you need below.
Browse the Route CompanionsWhich Route Companion do I need?
Find what you want to happen, then open the file with that code in the Route Companions folder. The section number shows where the route is explained in the full guide. Not sure? The At a Glance poster and the guide’s “Start here” chapter help you choose.
Show the 25 routes and their codes
Get records or report corruption
ATIObtain records from a public body Guide §11.3WBReport corruption and consider whistleblower protection Guide §11.4BOIdentify corporate control or beneficial ownership Guide §11.25
Public bodies, money and services
PROCStop or correct a procurement process Guide §11.5INSPSeek inspection of maladministration Guide §11.6COAScrutinise public spending or financial responsibility Guide §11.7MUNCorrect a municipal act, service or financial practice Guide §11.10REGSecure a sector-specific regulatory response Guide §11.17PUBScrutinise a public institution, enterprise or CDR project Guide §11.24
Courts, prosecution and discipline
ADMChallenge an administrative decision Guide §11.8CRIMSeek criminal investigation or a connected remedy Guide §11.9PROFSeek professional disciplinary action Guide §11.20SECRespond to abuse involving security bodies Guide §11.22
Rights, harm and elections
ELECAddress election administration or electoral wrongdoing Guide §11.11TRUTHEstablish truth, identification or reparative action Guide §11.19HRBring a matter to the National Human Rights Commission Guide §11.21ENVAddress environmental or planning harm Guide §11.23
Laws, Parliament and appointments
CONSTChallenge a law on constitutional grounds Guide §11.1PARLObtain parliamentary scrutiny or legislative action Guide §11.2LAWCreate, amend or repeal a law Guide §11.14ACTMake an adopted law operate Guide §11.15APPTFill a vacancy or activate an institution Guide §11.16
International routes
INTSeek international human rights scrutiny Guide §11.12XBRPursue a cross-border asset or foreign-jurisdiction issue Guide §11.13IFIInfluence the implementation of financing conditions Guide §11.18
At a Glance poster
Keep the accountability chain, route choices and follow-through visible on one page during a workshop or campaign planning session.
Open the poster DownloadCampaign planning poster
Build the plan together on a large-format sheet: the outcome, route, people, evidence and next steps everyone needs to see.
Open the planning poster DownloadLebanon’s accountability system maps
Explore how bodies connect and how decisions and appointments move. Read the diagrams alongside the guide’s account of the practical conditions and constraints on using each formal power.
Your campaign, exported as a manual
Use “My guide” to collect the guidance, maps and records you need, then “Preview PDF” to assemble and save your campaign manual. Include your brief, routes, deadlines and registers, in English or Arabic.
Use it for planning meetings, briefing new team members and sharing a practical reference with coalition partners. Choose what to include; restricted records stay out unless you select them.
Build your campaign manualDocuments open on Google Drive in a new tab; “Download” saves the file straight to your device. If a document does not open, tell us and we will send it to you.
Your campaign stays with you
- Your campaign work stays on your device. What you enter stays in your browser and the files you choose to save. It is not sent to The Cedar Grows or anyone else, and no account is required.
- Control access to saved files. Add a passphrase when you save a campaign file; people need that passphrase to open it.
- Choose what partners can see. Mark sensitive evidence, contacts or relationships as restricted to exclude them from shared files and printed plans unless you choose to include them.
- Send messages on your own terms. Support requests and corrections open a draft in your email app. You review and send it yourself.
- A quick automatic check protects the research. Before the reference data loads, the page runs an invisible Cloudflare check that a person is using it, and asks for a click only if Cloudflare is unsure. The check does not see your campaign.
Using a shared device or sensitive material
Anyone who can use your browser on your device can open your campaign. On a shared or work computer, save a passphrase-protected file and clear the campaign when you finish.
Read the guide’s safety section before you file a complaint or go public, especially if your campaign names people or relies on sources who could be at risk. A recorded link between a person and a company is a lead to check, not evidence of wrongdoing.
The people and sources behind the work
The guide and dashboard are written and maintained by The Cedar Grows, an independent, non-sectarian initiative based in Matn, Lebanon, with representatives in Melbourne, Sydney and Paris. Our work supports civic participation, civil society, institutional transparency and state accountability in Lebanon. Campaigns remain owned and led by the people running them.
Where the information comes from
- Laws link to the official Arabic texts, mainly in the Lebanese University legal database. The Arabic text is the one that counts.
- Body statuses come from official decrees and notices, official websites and dated reporting. Each is correct as of the date shown, not live.
- Holidays come from Council of Ministers memoranda. Announced strikes and closures are shown as warnings and do not change legal deadlines.
- Interests and ownership are recorded links, each with its source. A recorded link is a lead to check, not evidence of wrongdoing.
- Campaigns and organisations are drawn from public records and reporting, with what changed and what did not.
- Unions, universities, political relationships and foreign actors come from dated research databases built from official texts, directories and reporting. Nominations and election backing are shown as such, never as membership, and funding records are not added together.
The guide’s sources, further reading and glossary are in the full guide and in the dashboard’s Resources tool.
This is a draft for consultation
Help make this useful in practice. Share a correction, a missing route detail or something that was hard to use, especially if you have first-hand experience. Proposed changes are checked against sources.
The button opens your own email app. You can also write to contact@thecedargrows.com or use the contact page.
Common questions
Do I need an account, and does it cost anything?
No. The dashboard is free, with no account or sign-up. Open it, name your campaign and start with the question you have.
Does it work without the internet?
You need an internet connection to open the dashboard. Your campaign is saved in the browser on that device; save a campaign file at the end of each session to keep a separate copy. For work without a reliable connection, use the printable guide, Route Companions and Campaign Toolkit.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. Use the dashboard on a phone or tablet in English or Arabic. A laptop gives you more room for detailed planning and maps. Save your campaign file to move your work between devices.
Is this legal advice?
No. It is a campaign planning aid. Lebanese procedures can depend on the Arabic text of the law, the exact date and form of notice, special legislation and current practice. Check deadlines and procedures against the official text, and get legal advice for any filing that matters.
How up to date is the information?
Each dataset shows its sources and the date it was last checked. Institutional statuses are dated records, so confirm the current position before filing. Office-holder and status records more than six months old are flagged. The guide is a consultation draft, and its Arabic translation is under review.
Can I export the campaign as a manual to use and share?
Yes. Use “My guide” and “Preview PDF” to bring your campaign plan and selected guidance, maps and records into a practical PDF manual in English or Arabic. Print it, take it to meetings or share it with partners. Choose what to include and keep restricted records out of shared copies.
How do I work on a campaign with partners?
Each partner works from a campaign file on their own device. Exchange saved files and merge evidence, contacts, actions and deadlines without overwriting existing records. You can encrypt files, exclude restricted material and export registers as spreadsheets.
My organisation or campaign is missing, or an entry is wrong. What can I do?
Use “Suggest a correction” on the entry, or “Suggest an organisation” or “Suggest a campaign” in the dashboard. Include a source where you can. Proposed changes are checked against sources before publication.
Give the change you need a next step
Name your campaign, say where you are starting and follow the suggested next step. Use the two-minute tour to get your bearings, or read the guide first. The Cedar Grows can help you think the campaign through.
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