This study was commissioned by LTA through a World Bank fund. The aim of the survey was to assess Lebanese people’s familiarity with the nexus between their rights as citizens and the information they hold to allow the exercise of those rights.
The survey was designed to map the impact of the absence of an Access To Information (ATI) law and regulations on three levels: the level of ordinary life, or in other words, the personal and family sphere; the level of professional and business activities; and on the sphere of good governance in the country, or in other words, on the level of the activity of elected officials themselves.
To provide a sense of the current state of affairs vis-à-vis information access, the survey generated information about the prevailing difficulties to access information from public bodies, and the methods used by people to acquire needed information.
More specifically, the general knowledge of the ATI draft law presented to parliament in 2009 in the population and among policymakers was probed.
For this purpose, Carthage Center for Research and Information conducted during the month of August 2012 a survey with three instruments – an in-depth questionnaire for professionals in various fields, a public opinion survey and an in-depth questionnaire for parliamentarians.
