EDU TOP - Technical and vocational education to improve competences, Opportunities for decent work and Prosperity for young vulnerable people in Leb
Lebanon
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FinalisationAid type
Project-type interventionsLebanon
Location
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€ 1,775,785
Committed
Committed
€ 1,775,785
Used
Used
Description
The project EDU TOP - Technical and Vocational Education to Enhance Skills, Opportunities for Decent Work and Prosperity for Vulnerable Youth in Lebanon presented by COMI with its partners, VIDES and ISF-MI, the local counterpart FMA MOR and the local partner SDA aims at promoting a system of quality, equitable and inclusive vocational and technical education, responsive to the needs of the labour market, in favour of the most excluded ones. The change that the project aims to generate concerns the quality of vocational training, the inclusiveness of the access to training opportunities for vulnerable groups and the consistency with the needs of the labour market. The strategy came from a needs assessment carried out by the partnership in close collaboration with the Directorate-General for Education and Vocational Training of the Ministry of Education (DGTVET), which highlighted some important causes of youth unemployment. 1. The low quality of the public vocational training offer and the lack of coherence between the needs of the labour market and the vocational training programmes (skill mismatch) lead to poor employment opportunities, even in sectors where there is a high demand for labour. 2. The quality gap between private vocational training, which is unaffordable for vulnerable groups, and public vocational training leads to serious inequality in the access to real job opportunities for vulnerable groups, in particular refugees. Women also participate in the labour market at 29% (compared to 72% for men), also highlighting a problem of equity of access. 3. The almost total absence of tools to support young people in their search for decent employment, as well as guidance and training on sustainable development in public vocational schools, effectively cuts off the most vulnerable young people from opportunities to enter the labour market and participate in the major issues of the social debate of their time. The target group was therefore identified as the most vulnerable young people: in the local context identified with refugees (mostly Syrian and Palestinian) and girls (in line with OSS 4.5). The project will renovate training curricula, update teachers and set up teaching training in 22 public schools in the major of IT, nursing and jewellery. The sectors were chosen on the basis of their high demand from the local labour market and their attractiveness to targeted vulnerable groups and women. The beneficiary schools were selected to cover all 5 regions of Lebanon to ensure the inclusion of schools in the most remote areas and were selected on the basis of the distribution of benefits among all religious and ethnic groups that composes the complex Lebanese society. Beside, 15 Guidance and Employment Offices (GEO) will be strengthened. They will carry out activities, workshops, seminars, trainings and bootcamps to train young people on how to search for a job, create encounter situations between young people and companies, orient young people and families and fight the social stigma suffered by vocational training. An online guidance platform and a National Job Portal will be created to match job supply and demand. Finally, in order to cope with the lack of knowledge of issues related to ECG and sustainable development, an e-learning platform will be created with modules on development education and global citizenship, and training of teachers and students on the same issues will be carried out to strengthen the awareness, participation and fulfilment of young people in their own society. The project duration is 3 years. The Salesian counterparts deep roots in the territory, its long and proven experience in the vocational training sector and the close collaboration with DGTVET will make the initiative extremely sustainable.
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| Year | Committed | Used |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | € 0 | € 710,314 |
| 2022 | € 1,775,785 | € 1,065,471 |
Agency
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| Government | AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development | 11000 |
Channel reported
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| National NGO | COMI- COOPERAZIONE PER IL MONDO IN VIA DI SVILUPPO ONG | 22000 |
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