STUDY DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS YOUTH IN LEBANON FES MENA Youth Study: Results Analysis Michel Doueihy December 2022 The personal economic situa­tion of youth in Lebanon has been dramatically affected by the series of financial and liqui­dity crises the country expe­rienced. They are not in a posi­tion to save money given the current level of inflation. Youth’s interest in politics is low. This is associated with the per­ceived connotations and asso­ciations with the word»poli­tics«. Most young people direc­tly associate the word»corrup­tion« with politics in Lebanon, and an extremely large share of youth associated politics with »problems«. The vast majority of civic enga­gement reported by the young people surveyed was spon­taneous, non-institutional or in­dividual, with youth engaging on their own initiative and pre­ferring a kind of unsystematic volunteer work to being orga­nised within an institutional framework.