Swisscontact aims at strengthening the labour market at the local level through training and business support components such coaching. Based on the idea of working across several sectors, with each intervention being dictated directly by the identified needs, in order to achieve a systemic impact on the youth labour market.
The objective is to create opportunities by supporting the youth through an adapted business network that generates employment in the intervention areas, but also in the areas of innovation at the MSMEs level.
Interview with Hassan Bugnard, Country Director of Swisscontact Lebanon
Hassan Bugnard’s start as Swisscontact Lebanon Country Director and Project Manager for a labour market integration project could not have been more precarious: first, Lebanon declared bankruptcy, and then the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed on both Switzerland and Lebanon. The move to his new home in Lebanon began only digitally. > read more