Between January and November 2015, the process for the development of the SCP-NAP was based on the ‘Planning for Change’ methodology of UNEP and the 3 key phases:

• Planning: including a Scoping Review covering a stakeholder mapping and a scoping of policies and actions in the industrial sector related to Sustainable Consumption and
  Production;
• Development: leading to the Action Plan for the industrial sector in Lebanon, with special focus on the Litani River and Qaraoun Lake;
• Implementation and Monitoring of the Action Plan based on the outputs and activities
  identified.

Overall objectives：
The industrial sector in Lebanon was considered as a real booster for the financial system and for sustainable employment. It was Lebanon’s shock absorber for the economy that can took in the highest level of turbulence and strife, although the share of the industrial sector in the national economy was small, with less than 10% of Lebanon’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), over the past 10 years. For this reason the development of its first SCP Action Plan for the Industrial Sector was of high importance and included these objectives: (i) leapfrogging to socially inclusive Sustainable Consumption and Production practices preserving the environment; (ii) integrating the natural capital and the environment in the core business of Mediterranean companies and (iii) creating a critical mass of citizens for SCP;

Operational objectives:
The action plan was prepared based on a wide multi-stakeholder consultation process and a scoping review report on national SCP policies and actions and was endorsed by the National Council for the Environment in November 2015. It is hence considered as a nationally validated framework which can be used by the different stakeholders for the implementation of specific activities or sets of activities identified under the three operational objectives.