Abstract
As Lebanon explores its path to recovery, productivity is considered key to developing a more sustainable economy. The manufacturing sector has shown significant resilience to ongoing economic and political instability, sustaining value-added production thanks to a mix of export and input substitution strategies. However, challenges and constraints remain. The Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have jointly undertaken a series of research projects on skills anticipation and skills gaps. This partnership aims to eventually establish an industrial labour market observatory at ALI, with the objective of regularly updating changes in labour demand, and ultimately improving skills matching and networking between industrialists, TVET providers, policymakers and workers. This report presents the results of a 2024 online survey of 140 manufacturing enterprises, all of them members of ALI.
