Gender sensitive Labor Market Assessment

Vulnerable youth often have limited access and awareness of safe and decent employment opportunities which can further hinder their ability to set long-term goals and meet their psychosocial and economic needs. To better support young people to identify and access these opportunities, Asmae, Nabaa and FSF aim to provide additional guidance and support through conducting a a gender sensitive labour market assessment (LMA) as part of the YEP program.

The LMA will be conducted at the beginning of the programme to understand the demand side of Beirut labor market and youth aspiration for life and career respectively for young women and young men, the findings of the study will lead to better know the sector of employment for youth and to include in the VT curriculum the necessary trainings for getting the skills and knowledge required by the labor market, as well as  the aspiration of the youth

This LMA, in addition to creating linkages with key stakeholders and market actors, will provide the youth with an understanding labour market demands for skills needed in the market, both technical and transferable.

Results of the LMA will be shared with Vocational Training Providers (VTPs) and employment agencies openly to inform their services are demand driven also across the humanitarian actors.

1. Methodology

The first part of the study will explore the labor market by visiting selected hiring entities, stakeholders, potential employers, SMEs and other industries, the number of entities to be selected in each area will be agreed between Asmae and the consultancy firm.

The following highlights the expectations from this section of the study:

1. Identify potential employers in the study area
2. Assess the labor market demand and skills requirements
3. Provide detailed analysis in the study area  taking into consideration the gender sensitivity and gender policies  (Is the sector / company, etc. more “male” or “female” (in terms of social perception as well as objectively, in terms of number of male / female staff)? If it is a male / female sector, what’s the situation of staff from the opposite sex (not only salary or type of contract but also in terms of working conditions and environment)? Are there anything set up for child care? What’s the policy of working from home? What’s the policy for maternity leave? And paternity leave? If there are many more female staff or male staff, what does explain this situation? Is there any policy / any measures set up by the employer to promote more balance / mixity?... Do we anticipate any issues at the recruitment process (female candidate not being recruited in a male sector, etc.)? What’s the perceptions of female/male applicants, female/male staff by the employer? Are there any policies to fight against any discrimination in the company? To prevent and respond to GBV?)
4. Identify possible job creation sector in each area.
5. identify the average wage scales and type of contact provided by each sector, and has there any differences between men and women’s average scales? If so, how can this be explained?
6. Identify workers and skills in high demand by the industry, and what are the opportunity of creating employment for young women, young men displaced people, people with disabilities, to ensure inclusive job creation
7. Produce explorative report on gender sensitive labor market assessment analyzing all the above market conditions. And providing gender-disaggregated data as well as analysis for any gaps

The second part of the study focus on youth aspiration, under this part the following deliverables are expected:

1. Perception, challenges and opportunities for unemployed young men and young women, this analysis should be gender-disaggregated with FGDs that are only men/ women in Beirut area
2. Characterization and mapping of young women’s and men’s aspiration, challenges in getting employed by gender, disability level, nationality and age range.
3. Assess barriers of employment, skills and knowledge, financial situation, social network, discouraging and encouraging factor for employment respectively for young women and young men (lack of startup capital, lack of skills required, lack of training opportunities, legal framework, policies, soft skills, access to market, social barriers / norms, child marriage, early parenting, …)
4. Highlight how the challenges differ among different youth, women, men, girls, boys, PwD, refuges and host communities.
5. Assess the labor market conditions for young women, young men, women, people with disabilities, refugees and current level of barriers to employment in the host community.
6. Identify the needs of the young women and young men to start sustainable profitable jobs

Finally the assignment will provide comprehensive recommendations, including recommendations to deal with gender stakes that have been identified based on the finding of the Labor Market Assessment from the industries side and the young women’s and young men’s aspirations assessment from randomly selected unemployed young women and young men. The findings will be used to guide the program operations. To identify the skills in high demand from demand side, and preferred by the young men and young women to diversify the vocational training in areas where the intervention brings higher impact, and propose the intervention to meet to demand challenges in employment landscape taking gender sensitivity into consideration.

2. Tasks and expected deriverables

Deliverable

Timeline

Kick-off meeting with Asmae, Nabaa and FSF to establish understanding of the scope of the assignment

1 day

Inception report including detailed planned study

3 days

Design of assessment methodology and tools for data collection

3 days

Data collection including meetings with stakeholders and providing updates to Asmae FP

5 days

Data analysis and draft preliminary report with recommendation

5 days

Meeting / workshop to present recommendations and validation of inputs

1 day

Draft final report including with decent design including graphs, photographs and notes where needed

3 days

Second version of final report after HQ revision

1 day

Prepare summary report to be established among relevant stakeholders

1 day