Senior Economic Empowerment Project Manager

The 2-year Economic Empowerment Project is a collaboration of CARE, Ruwwad Al Tanmeya, SHIFT Social Innovation Hub and TEC Tripoli Entrepreneurs Club. The project consists of three interlinked components, which will – collectively – contribute to enhancing the economic resilience of marginalized communities and individuals in Tripoli. They address barriers related to individual employability and labor market links, small business development and job creation, and community relations and self-organization.

Component 1 - Engaging Communities & Enhancing Social, Psychosocial and Employability Skills:
This component will mainly tackle the human capital of the local communities, as well as the theory of change that stipulates the engagement of the local communities. The starting point would include launching of a number of life skills and psychosocial support trainings, to be followed by a set of Vocational Trainings. The component design includes a complemented “apprenticeship” sub-component, which aims at facilitating the access to labor market of disfranchised youth & women in Tripoli.

This training program is tailored for several purposes:
1- To empower Local Partners and consolidate their relation with the local communities.
2- To have an indirect prospecting process to reach the pioneers for the economic empowerment activities.
3- To Mobilize and enhance the capacity of the local communities (Women and Youth Mainly), as well as for the MSME owners.
4- To increase the employability of the trainees and local community in general.
5- To increase the level of the community participation and thus indirectly the transparency through more accountability.

Component 2 - Engaging Businesses and Entrepreneurs

This Component focuses on the development process of the neighborhoods through the consolidation and empowerment of the local businesses, as well as the provision of a better entrepreneurship environment. It also tackles the LED dynamics in order to alleviate poverty and create jobs and incomes. This component which is considered as the Labor Supply (versus the first component, which is considered as Labor Demand), has been designed to tackle and empower the entrepreneurship spirit and local MSME sector through Competitions, Administrative Training, Mentoring and Coaching. It has been tailored to ensure long term sustainability for the beneficiaries, who will participate in the social and economic development of their neighborhoods by creating jobs, alleviating poverty and spreading the entrepreneurship spirit among youth.  

Component 3 – Engaging Civil Society Organizations

This component has been designed as a strategic part of the project, since it aims at building the institutional and organizational capacities of the partnering local CSOs.

Under this component, CARE will lead the elaboration of curriculums and the institutional transformation and the creation of the internal platform for the coalition. Ruwwad with SHIFT and TEC will be involved in advocacy and awareness campaign, conferences, social and community events, networking effort and community capacity building program. Though, every partner has its own field of expertise, the proposed design has been shaped to create synergy, complementarities and organic functioning. The coordination will be built on lessons learned and experience sharing. All components and activities are interlinked in order to optimize the positive results and create a success story.