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Improved Access to Employment Opportunities for Lebanese and Refugee Graduates from Skills Training Project Tracer Study of Graduates

AICS-SUPPORTED SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Building skills and promoting (self)employment among young people in Lebanon – Nouthayba’s story

Nouthayba Hawchar, who was recently supported by the ILO through training to help develop her skills, found employment and set up her own business.

Empowering women and improving livelihoods thorough skills development in Lebanon

The ILO is training Syrian and Lebanese youth in skills that are aligned with labour market needs while simultaneously empowering women and supporting their participation in technical and vocational training programmes

Older people in Lebanon face desperate circumstances due to lack of basic social protection guarantees

A new report by HelpAge International and the ILO draws on the testimonials of older people who convey the severe hardships they face because of the lack of an adequate social protection system in Lebanon.

Brochure

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities - Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq

In this second edition of the ILO PROSPECTS Arab States brochure, the ILO presents some of its latest work under the programme.

A glimmer of Hope amidst the Pain

Voices of older people on social protection and the need for a social pension in Lebanon

ILO Voices | Disaster recovery

How work gave me purpose after Beirut blast

On August 4, 2020, large parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, were devastated by a massive explosion in the port. For Hani Baltaji, the rebuilding of a municipal police station has not only helped towards Beirut’s recovery, but also his own.

CAN/D/SF/Lebanon

Lebanon

Information on cases of serious failure to respect reporting and other standards-related obligations supplied by governments

Lebanon and the ILO release up-to-date data on national labour market

Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics and the International Labour Organization (ILO) release the findings of the Lebanon Follow-up Labour Force Survey -January 2022

Lebanon Follow-up Labour Force Survey – January 2022: Factsheet

Publication

Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia

This background paper reviews the literature that sheds light on the structural patterns of discrimination against migrant workers in some countries of South and West Asia. It also articulates recommendations that would help officials in UN...

Safety and security in Lebanon

Lebanese capital police hub restored by the ILO following Beirut port explosion

The restoration of the building housing Beirut’s municipal police force is a critical step towards maintaining the safety and security of the city and its population and has created scores of decent jobs for local residents.

ILO supports key partners to deliver employment and career guidance in Lebanon

A three-day training focused on ILO’s “Career Guidance and Employment Services: How to Choose my Future Profession,” a training tool for institutions providing employment and career guidance for jobseekers.

Concept Note: Unpacking concepts of freedom and unfreedom in the world of work

ILO in action

Prospects for responding to forced displacement in Lebanon

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Shaza Al Jondi, speaks from Lebanon about the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), which aims to help forcibly displaced persons and their host communities...

Competency-based vocational training programmes launched in Lebanon by Safadi Foundation and ILO

The programmes will train young women and men on agri-food processing, welding, plumbing, and elderly home caregiving, including post-COVID-19 care.

Report

Emerging Good Practices in the Elimination of Child Labour in the Middle East and North Africa

This report identifies awareness-raising tools, particularly applicable to COVID-19 response, as well as follow-up recommendations for stakeholders.

UNICEF and ILO convene a skills roundtable to discuss strategic directions for TVET sector in Lebanon

The roundtable brought together major development partners to reflect on a future course of action to address labour market needs in the current crisis situation in the country in order to build back better

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 7: SSE as tool for social cohesion, peace and resilience

Survey

The state of covered horticulture in Lebanon

Results of a baseline survey of 200 covered horticulture farmers, 100 horticulture workers and 20 wholesalers in Akkar and Baalbeck-Hermel