Strengthening T-VET to foster Relevant and inclusive Internship Programmes and Employability Skills

ongoing

In Lebanon communities are affected by humanitarian, economic and governmental crises that threaten their livelihoods. Unemployment numbers are high and increasing, particularly among young people. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (T-VET) can make a meaningful contribution to socio-economic development in the country by providing urgently needed, relevant skills for the labour market. By establishing STRIPES Centres the project aims to enhance T-VET’s capacity to develop and implement work-based learning programmes linking skilled graduates to the labour market. The objectives are to: • Develop the institutional context and organisational capacity needed for the STRIPES centres (2) to thrive. • Strengthen the operational capacity of the STRIPES centres by delivering training on: o employability skills; o anticipatory systems for the T-VET institutions to develop future labour market responsive curriculum; o recruitment and internship coordination and mentoring and coaching. • Establish two physical STRIPES centres and installing the tools necessary for inclusive digitisation. • Provide training to digitise courses and to create an online STRIPES platform (1) that links T-VET graduates to the labour market with intention to scale. The project provides tailor-made training, workshops, study visits, co-design, training of trainers sessions supporting the establishment of the STRIPES centres and enabling the centres to play an interface-like role between the T-VETs, its students (internships) and graduates (employment), and the labour market. Additional expected outputs are: institutional policy documents & protocols; manuals, online platform, website. Ultimately, STRIPES aims to contribute to a positive image of T-VET education among students as well as stakeholders.