In every crisis country, you will find someone leading refugees in making handicraft in efforts towards building economic independence.

Is this really the best skills to be teaching? Or is it simply the by-product of inherent biases? We need to reexamine how we think about funding nonprofits and what we are willing to support with our dollars; think about how to foster a more equitable society through 21st Century skills and not continue to condemn girls and women in the “pink ghetto.”

3RP Partners are implementing the joint initiative “Support of Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in Lebanon and enhancing enrollment in it”. This initiative aims to develop a TVET Strategic Paper and Roadmap leading to better linkages with the labour demand market requirements and the aspirations of UNICEF/Lebanon/ Sebastian Rich 18 youth aged 12 - 21 years. It builds on and complements other parallel interventions in place to improve the TVET system in Lebanon as well as mitigate the negative impact of the Syria crisis.