Skills Anticipation - Lebanon: Compiled Analysis Report for three sectors in Lebanon. Health, printing and packaging, public infrastructure.

This publication presents the findings of three sectoral studies conducted by the ILO in 2022 under the joint ILO-UNICEF project "Towards improved formal and non-formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Lebanon."

The COVID-19 epidemic, financial sector near-collapse, and Beirut explosion have significantly reduced employment rates in public infrastructure, healthcare, and printing/packaging sectors in Lebanon, which face limited access to electricity and finance, high raw material costs, difficulty in retaining skilled staff, and brain drain, resulting in a demand for skilled labor, a call for curriculum reform, and better coordination and communication among establishments.

These studies focus on the labour market skills gaps and challenges in the healthcare, public infrastructure, and printing and publishing sectors, using similar studies conducted in 2018-2019 as a benchmark.

The report emphasizes the need for improved coordination, communication, and reform in TVET, and highlights the challenges and opportunities facing the labour market in Lebanon.