Employment services

ILO conducts a workshop on Cooperation Mechanisms, Labour Market Information, and Employment Services Management

The workshop aims to strengthen the capacities of employment services in Northern Lebanon in order to provide quality services and to promote cooperation of key actors.

The ILO is to hold a workshop on Employment Services and Labour Market Information in the coastal town of Chekka in northern Lebanon, as part of ILO efforts to improve the employability of job seekers in Lebanon made vulnerable by the Syrian refugee crisis.

The workshop aims to strengthen the capacities of employment services in Northern Lebanon in order to provide quality services and to promote cooperation of key actors, to ensure transparent referral systems, standardise data and indicators, and sustain services established, including active cooperation in sharing labour market information.

The National Employment Office, the Central Administration of Statistics, Non-Governmental Organizations providing employment services, vocational training and soft skills, private employment services, online employment services providers, and users and providers of labour market information such as trade unions, employers’ organisations, and other international and national organisations will be among those in attendance at the workshop.

The workshop is part of the ILO-funded project entitled “Enabling Job Resilience and Protecting Decent Work Conditions in Rural Communities Affected by Syrian Refugees Crisis in Northern Lebanon.” The project aims to create productive employment through local economic development (LED) and sustainable enterprises by taking action to improve the employability of job seekers made vulnerable by the Syrian refugee crisis, unleash the income generation and employment creation potential of agricultural value chains through LED, as well as enhance the capacity of service providers to enable the creation of LED opportunities.