All resources: Lebanon

Building skills and empowering young people in Lebanon – Rabih’s story

The ILO has provided market-relevant skills training for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees to improve their employment prospects.

Financial education for refugees, IDPs and host communities in Lebanon – Trainee's booklet (in Arabic)

This booklet, available in Arabic, is primarily aimed at refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Lebanon who wish to improve their money management skills. The booklet presents basic knowledge, skills and tools related...

Our impact, Their voices

New skills and a brighter future – Mohammad’s story

The ILO is training Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees in skills that are in demand in the labour market to improve their employment prospects.

How ILO Programmes Contribute to Social Cohesion between Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities in the Arab States Region

This research was developed by the ILO to gain some knowledge on the current contribution of ILO programmes to social cohesion at the level of direct beneficiaries, collect lessons learned and practices, and identify concrete steps towards enhancing...

Thematic Report - Video

Trade, investment and employment in the Southern Mediterranean Countries: The report in short

Video of the Thematic Report of the "Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood" Programme (METI)

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

International Youth Day

Youth highlight importance of skills development for a better future

On the occasion of International Youth Day, young women and men from Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon and refugees living in these countries, share their experiences and hopes for the future. ILO PROSPECTS is supporting them to build new skills for...

Video

Linking Lebanese hosts and Syrian refugees with jobs and labour market

In June 2022, the ILO and partners met with Lebanese and Syrian farm and plant nursery owners and workers and visited a skill-training centre in the north of Lebanon, who have benefitted from the activities of the mulit-agency PROSPECTS programme

Two years on from the Beirut blast, how ILO helped create jobs and a safer city

After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent...

Private sector engagement key to skills development in Lebanon

The ILO and Safadi Foundation engage the private sector in every step of the design and implementation of vocational training to help create the workforce that the country’s labour market needs and build effective pathways for employment.

On-the-job training

ILO training initiative brings new agricultural skills to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

As Lebanon continues to reel under a multifaceted economic crisis, a competency-based training course conducted by the PROSPECTs programme gave Lebanese and Syrian trainees key skills needed to advance their career in Lebanon’s vital agricultural...

Social dialogue and formalization

New ILO project works towards formalizing Lebanon’s economy through tripartite social dialogue

The Lebanon arm of the multi-country project held a two-day workshop to explore the requirements of transitioning from the informal to the formal economy in the crisis-hit country.

ILO and UNICEF launch reports on labour market needs to improve skills training and employment prospects in Lebanon

Two labour market assessments, developed by ILO and UNICEF in collaboration with national and local partners, recommend potential business and training opportunities in Lebanon in response to the compounded crisis in the country.

Community-based Market Assessment for Skills Development and Economic Empowerment - Summary Report

Adaption and implementation of the ILO Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) methodology in Lebanon.

Community-based Market Assessment for Skills Development and Economic Empowerment - Full Report

Adaption and implementation of the ILO Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) methodology in Lebanon.

Synthesis of the crisis impact on the Lebanese labour market and potential business, employment and training opportunities

This report is developed within the context of the UNICEF/ILO partnership joint programme “Towards improved formal and non-formal technical and vocational education and training in Lebanon” (2017-2022).

Lebanon follow-up Labour Force Survey January 2022

This Follow-up Labour Force Survey was conducted by Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics in January 2022, with the technical and financial support of the ILO’s Regional Office for Arab States. It provides up-to-date estimates of a broad...

Thematic Report

Executive summary: Trade, investment and employment in the Southern Mediterranean Countries

Summary of the Thematic Report of the "Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood" Programme (METI)

Thematic Report

Trade, investment and employment in the Southern Mediterranean Countries

Thematic Report of the "Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood" Programme (METI).

Steps towards digitalizing skills system in Lebanon