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Foreign-funded relief projects for employment and infrastructure
28-6-2017
A meeting was held last Friday at the Ministry of Labor, presided by Director General George Ida, in order to launch the Employment and Infrastructure programme in various parts of Lebanon. The programme is to be implemented in partnership between the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Social Affairs, UNDP and ILO. The event was attended by representatives from the German government donor and included an agreement over the general principles and ways of working of the initiatives. Parallel to that, the President of the Tripoli and North Lebanon Chamber, Tufic Dabbussi, met last Saturday with development consultant, Sarah Loof, and project coordinator and expert in SMEs, Ziad Antonios, to discuss the temporary employment programme funded by DFID and which seeks to provide employment for Lebanese and displaced Syrians, The project also seeks to supports SMEs in increasing their productivity and create permanent jobs for medium skills Lebanese job seekers. During the meeting, Loof noted that there are significant opportunities to strengthen collaboration with the Tripoli and North Lebanon Chamber. She added that the said employment programme will provide financial and employment incentives, as well as technical assistance in order to develop SMEs. (Al Diyar and Al Mustaqbal, 24 and 25 June 2017)
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