Technical support to strengthen employability of vulnerable groups in Lebanon

This project aims at improving productive employment and decent work opportunities through the promotion of sustainable enterprises and by strengthening the employability of vulnerable groups. The project is part of the UN Inter-Agency Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (2016) and supports the Government of Lebanon’s five-year programme on education and economic opportunities. The interventions seek to enhance the resilience of entrepreneurs, including farmers, and workers affected by the Syrian crisis in Lebanon focusing on rural areas that have the highest poverty incidence and host very high numbers of refugees. By using the Local Economic Development (LED) approach, the project will focus on building the capacity of local stakeholders and the need to strengthen social dialogue. Based on the results and recommendations of the value chains analysis of two agriculture sub-sectors (potato and leafy greens) in 2014 and2015, interventions will strengthen the effectiveness of key market actors and institutions in addressing and improving market underperformance, developing and sustaining local economic opportunities along the value chains, as well as reducing decent work gaps in the two value chains, in particular with regard to women empowerment and child labour.

Project symbol

LBN/16/01/RBS

Admin unit

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

Start date

01/01/2016

End date

28/02/2018

Total allocation

311218

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

311218

Development Partners

Core voluntary funds (RBSA)

Country/Countries

Lebanon

Outcomes

Decent work in the rural economy