A/HRC/5/9 page 7 (b) The Development Assistance Database (DAD) was established by the Government of Lebanon with assistance from UNDP in the immediate aftermath of the war. DAD is housed in the Recovery and Reconstruction Cell in the Office of the Prime Minister. It aims at strengthening aid coordination and harmonization by providing for a unified and transparent data management system which is accessible online, to track progress on resource allocation to, and programme implementation of, recovery assistance. Complementing the DAD, the Ministry of Finance, which leads overall donor coordination, is establishing a data management system, with support from the World Bank. This system captures information at the transactional level and monitors financial flows from both the national budget and external resources. Both systems are expected to be integrated subsequently; (c) The Lebanon Recovery Fund (LRF) was established as an additional option for donors through which to channel their resources to support recovery. LRF is a United Nations Development Group (UNDG) Multi-Donor Trust Fund pooling donor resources to support activities undertaken by UNDG agencies in cooperation with Government, private sector and/or NGOs. It is administered by UNDP and is managed by a Steering Committee headed by the Minister of Economy and Trade and with a membership consisting of four donors (Sweden, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait), a representative of the Ministry of Finance, the Head of RRC in the Office of the Prime Minister, and the United Nations Resident Coordinator. To date, LRF has received a total of close to US$ 17 million to be disbursed in accordance with government-set recovery priorities, as approved by the LRF Steering Committee. The first meeting of the LRF Steering Committee is expected to take place soon, and it will mark the moment at which projects can be submitted for funding; (d) Resident Coordinator sub-offices are a coordination structure at the subnational level established by the Resident Coordinator to support the coordination and coherence of recovery efforts on the ground. This structure consists of four Resident Coordinator sub-offices located in the following geographical areas: Tyre, for South Lebanon; Chtoureh, for the Bekaa; Tripoli, for north Lebanon and Dahieh, for the Beirut southern suburbs. These Resident Coordinator sub-offices bring together United Nations agencies, national and international NGOs, civil society organizations, municipal authorities and line ministries at decentralized levels, as well as other actors/stakeholders involved in the recovery efforts to ensure their overall coherence and synergy. Although the North, for example, did not suffer as much as other areas from the destruction of civilian infrastructure, it is one of the poorest areas of the country and was severely affected by the war’s impact on the economy and employment. Thus, notwithstanding the need to direct much of the recovery assistance efforts toward South Lebanon, concentrating exclusively on this region risks exacerbating or creating new disparities elsewhere. The geographic distribution of the Resident Coordinator sub-offices reflects the importance of ensuring that recovery efforts are inclusive, sustainable and equitable in their coverage throughout Lebanon; (e) Coordination Clusters: Following the Paris III conference, the Government of Lebanon has also established a set of Coordination Clusters corresponding to the main pillars of its medium-term Reform Programme and its Reconstruction and Recovery priorities, which were presented to the conference. The Social Development Coordination Cluster, for example, which