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New project to promote youth vocational training in Lebanon
31-7-2017
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNICEF embarked jointly on an initiative to improve technical and vocational education and training (TVET) for youth in Lebanon in line with labor market needs. The project will carry out labor market assessments on the community and national level, and will implement competency-based training programs adjusted to meet labor market demands. The ultimate beneficiaries of above project are low-skilled youth representing the majority of job hunters in the country. ILO’s Regional Director for Arab States, Rana Jaradat, pointed out that the undertaking is the “result of close collaboration between two sister UN agencies and a common desire to create decent work opportunities for the young generation.” This partnership, Jaradat said, will address a number of challenges to the local labor market, including the provision of better understanding of the market’s dynamics and a skilled workforce that responds to the market requirements, as well as, career guidance and counseling services. For her part, UNICEF representative in Lebanon, Tanya Chapuisat, underlined the UN organization’s keenness to invest its financial and technical resources in the project aimed to reform the formal and non-formal technical and vocational education and training sector. It will also play an important role in increasing the employability of job-seeking youth and guarantees their fair and smooth transition to career life. (Al Mustaqbal, July 30, 2017)
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