ILO in the Arab States
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ILO visits Aleppo’s damaged neighbourhoods in preparation for emergency employment scheme
With parts of the Syrian city severely hit by the February 6 earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria, the ILO is set to help restore livelihoods in affected communities.
What's new
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News
New ILO paper: “Education attainment gap in Iraq and the potential of social protection to reverse it”
22 March 2023
A new ILO working paper examines loss of earnings due to Iraq’s education gap and outlines the potential of social protection to address this gap, based on international good practices.
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News
ILO trains engineers on its employment-intensive infrastructure recovery approach in Syria
21 March 2023
The training took place in preparation of ILO emergency employment scheme in Aleppo, that will create decent jobs and rehabilitate destroyed infrastructure.
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Response to Turkiye and Syria earthquakes
ILO assigns $3.6 million of direct support to workers affected by the Türkiye and Syria earthquakes
20 March 2023
The ILO announced the allocation at a donors’ conference hosted in Brussels in support of victims of the earthquakes in the two countries.
Publications
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ILO Response to the Earthquake in Syria: Embedding Decent Work Principles in Early Recovery Efforts
The ILO is set to implement an emergency employment scheme in Aleppo to help restore the livelihoods of people in affected communities in Aleppo, which was severely hit by the earthquake that struck Syria and Türkiye.
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Towards a referral network for training and post-training support services: A mapping of training and post training service providers.
Job seekers and workers are under mounting pressure to upgrade their existing skills and learn new ones to meet the fast-changing labor market needs. More in this publication.
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Key challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs in the agriculture and agro-food sectors in North-Lebanon and Akkar
Needs Assessment Report Under the Productive Sectors Development Programme
Contact us
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International Labour Organization
Regional Office for the Arab States
Aresco Centre - Justinien Street - Kantari
P.O.Box 11-4088 Riad Solh 1107-2150
Beirut – Lebanon
Tel: 00961-1-752400
Fax: 00961-1-752405
Email: beirut@ilo.org