A/HRC/5/9 page 6 Early-recovery initiatives ensure measures to meet the immediate needs of the Lebanese people across 11 sectors, namely: displacement and shelter; mines and unexploded ordnance; infrastructure; water and sanitation; health; education; environment; employment; agricultural production; industrial production; and assistance to the Palestinian refugees. 6. Following this conference, the Government continued to undertake more in-depth assessments of the war’s direct and indirect impact on public infrastructure, services and the economy, and to make the needed adjustments to the medium-term economic, fiscal and social reform programme that it had elaborated prior to the war, with support from the United Nations agencies. The medium-term reform programme, adjusted to post-war reconstruction and recovery imperatives, was presented to an international donor conference held in Paris on 25 January 2007, under the patronage of President Jacques Chirac and with the participation of the Secretary-General. The Paris III conference was organized on the basis of the medium-term fiscal, economic and social reform programme of the Government of Lebanon, adjusted to post-war realities and aiming to place Lebanon on a sustainable growth path, including debt sustainability. Pledges amounted to US$ 7.6 billion, mainly in the form of concessional loans and grants. Conference participants expressed full support for Lebanon’s reform programme and for ensuring that it benefits all the people of Lebanon, throughout the country. The Government’s reform programme included a Social Action Plan to cushion the poor against any adverse impacts of fiscal and economic adjustments and to develop a longer-term social development strategy to redress regional disparities in socio-economic indicators which were further exacerbated by the direct and indirect impact of the war. B. Funding and coordination mechanisms 7. The Government has established a number of mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability with respect to the channelling and use of donor funds, including a mechanism for donors to directly manage the funds they pledge for reconstruction through an “adoption” scheme: for example, adopting a village (or cluster of villages) and reconstructing it in its entirety; a bridge (or several bridges); a school (or a number of schools); a hospital, a mosque or any other damaged infrastructure. Several donors have opted for this model, particularly Arab donors. The information transmitted by the Office of the Resident Coordinator gives details about the following coordination and funding mechanisms established with United Nations support: (a) The Recovery and Reconstruction Cell (RRC) was established in the Office of the Prime Minister, with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the immediate aftermath of the war, to facilitate the Government’s overall leadership and coordination responsibilities for reconstruction and recovery. With leadership of donor coordination responsibilities vested in the Ministry of Finance, RRC coordinates the prioritization of recovery programmes (other than major infrastructural projects falling under the aegis of the Council for Reconstruction and Development) and the allocation of the needed resources to implement them. RRC, together with representatives from the Ministry of Finance and Council for Reconstruction and Development, constitute a tripartite coordination secretariat within the Office of the Prime Minister;