{"id":106,"date":"2022-03-13T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/?p=106"},"modified":"2022-03-13T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:58:53","slug":"economic-empowerment-protection-of-women-and-girls-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/economic-empowerment-protection-of-women-and-girls-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Empowerment &#038; Protection of Women and Girls in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 2019 \u2013 June 2020<\/p>\n<p>Based on a UN Women agreement, LFPADE partnered with Visionaris, a business and management consultants to implement a project that aimed to build the capacity of 200 women in food safety &amp; production and to place at least 170 women in SMEs to do a paid internship, the project aimed as well as to build capacity of Khraibet El Jundi Women Coop in Akkar to become a sustainable operational cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>The LFPADE &amp; VISINARIS team coordinated with 7 Social Development Centers (SDCs) belonging to the Ministry of Social Affairs to identify the beneficiaries and to collaborate in implementing the activities.<\/p>\n<p>250 women (Lebanese &amp; Syrian refugees); were identified in three regions North Lebanon (Tripoli &amp; Akkar), Mount Lebanon (Jbeil &amp; Ghazir) &amp; Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of beneficiaries took into consideration the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Information (age, nationality, marital status)<\/li>\n<li>Educational background (school level, diplomas, degree if any)<\/li>\n<li>Experience background (previous work, years of experience)<\/li>\n<li>Their interest in attending food production training sessions (motivation)<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge about the training program (general information, topic familiarity)<\/li>\n<li>Whether they have aspirations to start a small business (benefit of the training)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the 250 beneficiaries that were identified, 204 women participated in the training courses offered, which were then divided into 8 groups of 25 beneficiaries, across Lebanon from North to Beirut:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Khreibet el Jundi (Akkar): 1 group, 29 women<\/li>\n<li>Qoubbeh (Tripoli): 1 group, 23 women<\/li>\n<li>Bab Tabbaheh (Tripoli): 2 groups: 49 women<\/li>\n<li>Jbeil (Mount Lebanon): 2 groups, 50 women<\/li>\n<li>Ghazir (Mount Lebanon): 1 group, 26 women<\/li>\n<li>Tariq Jdideh (Beirut): 1 group, 27 women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each group received 9 training sessions over 9 days as per the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 days: Business Development Services (pricing\/marketing\/social media)<\/li>\n<li>3 days: Food Safety (GAP\/GHP,GMP\/HACCP)<\/li>\n<li>4 days: Production (catering\/sweet &amp; savory\/pastries &amp; dough)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to place 170 women in the market, LFPADE and Visionaris established an action plan to define the selection of the SMEs (Small- Medium Enterprises) and monitoring methodologies to ensure the safety of beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The training program provided the beneficiaries the skills to work in restaurants &amp; cafes, bakeries, social kitchens, cooperatives, fairs and exhibitions, oriental sweets shops and industries or factories.<\/p>\n<p>LFPADE and Visionaris were involved in all communication between SMEs and the beneficiary, to ensure the best interest of all parties. The program ran for a period of 2-3 weeks, 5 days per week and for 4 hours a day, rounding it up in total to 50 hours. They also dedicated personnel from their team to be on-field coordinators and perform monitoring visits to different areas, and ensure the smooth implementation of the program, checking attendance, taking pictures and following up with beneficiary and SME owner.<\/p>\n<p>In order to expand the capacity of Khraibet El Jundi\u2019s cooperative, and based on the initial assessment, it was agreed that the coop should move towards a catering business, in addition to producing the two signature products, strawberry jam and rose water Syrup.<\/p>\n<p>The first activity implemented was a training program to increase their capacity in management, production of food items and marketing. The second activity was the acquisition of various essential equipment for the coop to work efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperative\u2019s members completed all <strong>24 training sessions<\/strong> which included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Management (1 session): <\/strong>highlighting the main activities of the cooperative and its objectives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Resources (1 session<\/strong>): in-detail description of the roles and responsibilities of women workers and definition of the coop\u2019s regulations throughout production.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Accounting (1 session<\/strong>): highlighting the importance of accounting systems for organizational, financial and data control purposes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Procurement (1 session):<\/strong> selection and evaluation of all purchased material.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food Safety (4 sessions<\/strong>): a systematic approach on all food safety procedures, from raw materials to distribution of the end product, including production control, traceability system, hygiene practices, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food Production (11 sessions):<\/strong> teaching new standard recipes of catering items. It included a wide variety of delicious Lebanese and international specialties for optimal market presence and competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing (4 sessions): <\/strong>establishing an efficient marketing system that distributes and markets cooperative products and catering services following defined strategies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Branding (1 session):<\/strong> understanding the importance of their products\u2019 image and identity in order to compete with other brands and increase their sales. This session also served as a brainstorming session to discuss the cooperative\u2019s new business model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coaching program followed as a continuity of the training program, where women get to apply what they learned. A total of 21 coaching sessions were implemented and they included: Management, HR, Accounting, Procurement, Food Safety, Food production, Marketing, Branding.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Khreibet El Jundi cooperative preliminary assessment report, training activities and outcomes, LFPADE and Visionaris customized 7 informative manuals to cater to the cooperative\u2019s needs, and the nature and type of their activities and operations.<\/p>\n<p>From personalized HR tasks and team skills management to detailed food production information and recipes, these 7 manuals will assist women in facilitating any process for the cooperative in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As a final stage, LFPADE &amp; Visionaris dedicated an amount of 15,000 USD to equip Khreibet Jundi\u2019s cooperative with new kitchen tools and equipment to optimize the workers\u2019 productivity, and food quality.<\/p>\n<p>This project was implemented during a very turbulent &amp; difficult period, as Lebanon was facing multiple crises; however, it was able to achieve its objective and provide the beneficiaries with an opportunity to work and enhance the livelihood of their families.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;107&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;108&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;109&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;110&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style type=\"text\/css\">#dt-btn-1 {color: #888888;border-color: #888888;}#dt-btn-1 > .text-wrap * {color: #888888;}#dt-btn-1:hover {color: #ffffff;background: #888888;border-color: #888888;}#dt-btn-1:hover > .text-wrap * {color: #ffffff;}<\/style><div class=\"text-centered\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/main\/\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-s dt-btn outline-bg-btn custom-btn-color custom-btn-hover-color\" id=\"dt-btn-1\"><span>Back to Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 2019 \u2013 June 2020 Based on a UN Women agreement, LFPADE partnered with Visionaris, a business and management consultants to implement a project that aimed to build the capacity of 200 women in food safety &amp; production and to place at least 170 women in SMEs to do a paid internship, the project aimed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfpa.org.lb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}