Migrant support measures from an employment and skills perspective (MISMES): Lebanon

The Migrant Support Measures from an Employment and Skills Perspective (MISMES) project aims to improve labour market integration of migrants (e.g. facilitating labour mobility, job and skills matching, livelihood and employment opportunities, labour market information and protection) or skills utilisation and enhancement of migrants (e.g. skills development courses, work-based learning, career guidance and counselling, recognition and validation of skills). This report is the first attempt to map MISMES in Lebanon in the past decade and to analyse their results. The collection of information was difficult owing to the lack of a clear institutional set-up on migration in Lebanon, to the multiplicity of interventions, and to the extreme situation faced by the country following the Syrian crisis.

The report is structured into four chapters. The first provides migration facts and figures for the three specific migrant groups in Lebanon and reviews key aspects of migration policies, legal frameworks and stakeholders in the country. The second chapter gives an overview of the MISMES inventory, including a list of all migrant support measures and initiatives mapped in Lebanon. The third chapter focuses on three promising MISMES initiatives selected from the full MISMES inventory, chosen as examples of good practice for more detailed case studies. Finally, the fourth chapter summarises the conclusions and develops some recommendations on the success of such initiatives for policy makers.

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