Publications

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   Arab States Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2024: Promoting social justice through a just transition

   While many economies in the Arab States region continue their post-pandemic recovery, recovery of the labour market lags behind, requiring concerted efforts to intensify diversification and to create jobs in more resilient sectors, the ILO report finds. The region's unemployment rate is expected to remain high at 9.8 per cent in 2024, above pre-pandemic levels, reflecting various factors that affect the region's labour markets such as segmentation, political instability, conflict, economic crises, a weak private sector and demographic pressures.

2. 

   ILO Response to the Earthquake in Syria: Embedding Decent Work Principles in Early Recovery Efforts

   The ILO is set to implement an emergency employment scheme in Aleppo to help restore the livelihoods of people in affected communities in Aleppo, which was severely hit by the earthquake that struck Syria and Türkiye.

3. 

   Towards a referral network for training and post-training support services: A mapping of training and post training service providers.
   

   Job seekers and workers are under mounting pressure to upgrade their existing skills and learn new ones to meet the fast-changing labor market needs. More in this publication. 
   

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   Key challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs in the agriculture and agro-food sectors in North-Lebanon and Akkar

   Needs Assessment Report Under the Productive Sectors Development Programme