Resources on Gender equality

  1. Project documentation

    Information note on impact research projects - Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015

    17 March 2016

    This note provides information about youth employment projects supported by the ILO Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015. The Fund is an initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and aims to build evidence for effective design and implementation of youth employment and enterprises programmes.

  2. Project documentation

    Information note on results measurement projects - Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015

    17 March 2016

    This note provides information about youth employment projects supported by the ILO Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015. The Fund is an initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and aims to build evidence for effective design and implementation of youth employment and enterprises programmes.

  3. © Alia Haju/ILO 2017

    ILO training initiative

    Women in agriculture: Cooking their way to empowerment and visibility

    22 February 2016

    An ILO initiative in north Lebanon is training women on food preparation and marketing, to help them make a living, market excess produce, and carve a visible role for themselves in the agricultural sector.

  4. Video

    Cooperating Out Of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait

    04 December 2014

    As in other parts of the world, Arab countries have seen an increase in – mainly female – migrant domestic workers, who have become the primary care providers in the household. This is the result of many contributing factors including the lack of affordable and well-regulated social care provisions and infrastructures, demographic shifts and transformation of families, and changing income and working patterns.

  5. Project documentation

    Leaflet on the project

    12 July 2013

  6. Feature

    How the ILO supports change in the Arab world

    17 January 2012

    The world has been transfixed in admiration at the courage of the women and men who have taken to the streets across the Arab States over the past year. Farah Dakhlallah, ILO Regional Outreach and Advocacy Officer in Beirut, reports from Yemen and Lebanon where the ILO assists in preparing a better future for workers in the region.

  7. Video

    Lebanon's First Woman Electrician

    23 September 2010

    In 2006 war devastated areas of Southern Lebanon. In recent years, the pace of reconstruction has been enhanced by a new program that trains young people at risk for long term unemployment in job skills in the building and construction industries. One of the brightest prospects from the new program is also one of the most unlikely; she’s on track to become southern Lebanon’s first woman electrician.

  8. Publication

    Rural women producers and cooperatives in conflicts settings in the Arab States

    31 March 2009

    Ongoing violent conflicts accentuate the challenges that women and men face in the rural areas of Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territories. The potential of cooperatives for sharing risk, pooling resources, learning together, generating income, and balancing work and family responsibilities, has yet to be actualized.