Recommendations for social and economic empowerment of women of Tripoli

In collaboration with the Federation of Municipalities of Tripoli and the National Employment Office, Save the Children Sweden and Lebanon jointly organized yesterday a workshop on the social and economic empowerment of Lebanese women. The event which was held at the Conference Hall of Rashid Karami Cultural Center in the capital of the north sought to identify the provisions and methods of implementation of initiatives aimed at empowering women both socially and economically in order to meet the needs of the disadvantaged communities of Tripoli. During the workshop, participants divided into three working groups in order to develop an approach that will aim at identifying loopholes in skills in the North as well as gender-based social and cultural obstacles in order to define viable initiatives that can be carried out by civil society organisations as well as awareness campaigns for promoting women’s integration in the local economy. The workshop came up with several recommendations namely: the implementation of pilot projects, undertake a market research with will focus on needed skills and challenges facing employment, the development of preventive and reflexive strategies that eliminate obstacles preventing women from realizing their economic potentials. (Al Mustaqbal, December 21, 2015)