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Future Ready: A labour market assessment of Lebanon’s digital sector

Report

Future Ready: A labour market assessment of Lebanon’s digital sector

This market assessment explores emerging digital employment opportunities for Lebanese and Syrian youth, identifying in-demand skills, training gaps and barriers to inclusion. Conducted under the ILO PROSPECTS programme, it provides evidence-based...

PROSPECTS Partnership Lebanon: Supporting stability amid crisis

Factsheet (September 2026)

PROSPECTS Partnership Lebanon: Supporting stability amid crisis

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Lebanon amid overlapping displacement, economic and social challenges. It focuses on strengthening protection and social protection, decent work and livelihoods, education and...

ILO PROSPECTS: Results at a glance

Global factsheet (September 2026)

ILO PROSPECTS: Results at a glance

This “Results at a Glance” factsheet presents key results from the PROSPECTS Partnership, highlighting its reach, achievements and contribution to longer-term, development-centred solutions for forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It...

New partnership set to strengthen Lebanon’s cooperative sector through better data and digital modernization
Cooperative member preparing catering for participants during the signing ceremony of the MOU between the ILO and GDC. Beirut, Lebanon- 22/9/2026

New partnership set to strengthen Lebanon’s cooperative sector through better data and digital modernization

The ILO, Lebanon’s Ministry of Agriculture and the General Directorate of Cooperatives join forces to update nationwide cooperative data, strengthen institutional capacity and improve support for cooperatives.

From the fields to the classroom: Children's journeys out of child labour in Lebanon
Yara wears a burgundy headscarf smiles while drawing with colored pencils during a classroom activity.

Photo-story

From the fields to the classroom: Children's journeys out of child labour in Lebanon

For many girls and boys in rural Lebanon, work in the fields has replaced education and play. Through safe spaces, psychosocial support and assistance to families, the ILO and its partners are helping children build a future beyond child labour.

Lebanon's labour market in crisis: Assessing the impacts of renewed conflict and regional instability

A focus on private sector workers

Lebanon's labour market in crisis: Assessing the impacts of renewed conflict and regional instability

This report provides evidence on the impacts of the current crisis on employment, earnings and working conditions in the private sector, and examines the coping strategies adopted by workers and their priorities for recovery, with the aim of...

Skills profiling of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Report

Skills profiling of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

This report highlights barriers, return intentions, and recommendations for inclusive, market-driven employment and training programmes.

Skills profiling of Syrian returnees

Report

Skills profiling of Syrian returnees

The report highlights unemployment, skills gaps, and limited training access, calling for inclusive, localised, and market-aligned programmes to support sustainable economic reintegration and employment opportunities.

Resilience amid crisis: A sector assessment of microfinance in Lebanon

Resilience amid crisis: A sector assessment of microfinance in Lebanon

This report assesses the resilience and recovery potential of Lebanon’s microfinance sector amid prolonged economic, financial and political crises. It highlights key challenges, institutional responses and opportunities to strengthen financial...

ILO-led workshop supports countries to strengthen recognition of prior learning systems
Attendees of the regional event

Learning event

ILO-led workshop supports countries to strengthen recognition of prior learning systems

Countries from Africa and the Middle East share practical solutions to strengthen recognition of prior learning and expand access to decent work.

Child labour in Lebanon’s agricultural sector: Stories from Syrian refugee families
Young Syrian girl Amena stands outside the tent where she lives with her family in the Bekaa Valley, a few metres from the fields where they work, 15 December 2025.

Video

Child labour in Lebanon’s agricultural sector: Stories from Syrian refugee families

Filmed in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, this video documents the realities of child labour in the agricultural sector among Syrian refugee families. Through testimonies from children, parents and the ILO, it highlights the pressures that push children...

Between work and school: The struggle of children in Lebanon’s agricultural fields
Syrian agricultural worker Aisha Al Mohammed and her youngest son sit inside a tent in their informal settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. December, 15, 2025

Article

Between work and school: The struggle of children in Lebanon’s agricultural fields

The ILO, through the PROSPECTS partnership, is supporting Lebanese and Syrian children, families and communities to combat child labour across Lebanon’s agricultural areas.

Meaningful youth engagement for decent work: A training package on engaging young people in employment programmes

Training package

Meaningful youth engagement for decent work: A training package on engaging young people in employment programmes

This training package is designed to help ILO staff and youth employment practitioners enhance meaningful youth engagement in employment programmes, with a particular focus on refugee and forcibly displaced youth.

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact - Summary

Two -page summary

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact - Summary

This two-page summary details the PROSPECTS Partnership's vision and impact, demonstrating its shift from humanitarian aid to sustainable solutions for forced displacement. It promotes self-reliance and inclusion for forcibly displaced persons and...

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact

Briefing paper

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact

This briefing paper details the collective action of the PROSPECTS coalition (ILO, UNHCR, UNICEF, IFC and World Bank) supported by the Netherlands to improve the lives of forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It promotes self-reliance by...

Cooperatives strengthen their role in eliminating child labour in Lebanon’s agricultural sector
Participants engaging with trainers during the two-day training on the role of cooperatives in eliminating child labour by ILO. Beirut, 20-21/11/25

Cooperatives strengthen their role in eliminating child labour in Lebanon’s agricultural sector

Training empowers agricultural cooperatives to identify, prevent and respond to child labour risks while promoting safer governance in rural communities across Lebanon.

Steps that matter: The ILO’s “Khuta” to youth employment in Lebanon
Young woman attending ILO's Khuta training in Lebanon

Article

Steps that matter: The ILO’s “Khuta” to youth employment in Lebanon

Arabic for “steps,” Khuta is the Job Search Club initiative guiding young people in their search for work amid crises, conflict, and volatility.

ILO PROSPECTS launches learning portal to transform forced displacement response
a young woman and a man attending training on woodwork in Ethiopia.

ILO PROSPECTS launches learning portal to transform forced displacement response

The ILO PROSPECTS Learning Portal turns years of field experience into practical, interactive resources to help practitioners, policymakers, and partners improve responses to forced displacement worldwide.

Talent beyond borders: Why businesses should hire young refugees
Men and women posing at event in Jordan

PROSPECTS podcast

Talent beyond borders: Why businesses should hire young refugees

Discover how businesses can unlock innovation and resilience by hiring young refugees. In this episode, Ingka Group’s Roman Bojko shares lessons from integrating refugee talent across 26 countries.

ILO employment-intensive projects create one million workdays in two years in the Arab States region
workers fixing a wall on the roads

ILO employment-intensive projects create one million workdays in two years in the Arab States region

Employment-Intensive Investment Programmes revitalize infrastructure and create decent work opportunities for communities amid humanitarian and economic challenges.