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Add to Preferred SourcesThe International Labour Organization (ILO) has mobilized resources to provide a rapid response to the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on the 4 August.
More than 100 short-term decent jobs clearing debris and rubble from the streets of Beirut have been created for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees, under the ILO’s Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme (EIIP), funded by Germany through the German Development Bank (KfW).
Some 60 workers have begun operations in the most affected areas of the city.
“Within days, we have been able to redeploy Lebanese and Syrian workers employed in the programme, to assist with the immediate response to the needs in Beirut, and we hope to scale up this effort in the coming weeks,” said the ILO’s Deputy Regional Director for the Arab States, Frank Hagemann.
The EIIP team is working closely with the Municipality of Beirut to ensure that support reaches the areas that were hard hit by the explosion. It is coordinating with UN agency working groups, led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to ensure that efforts to create a safer Beirut are coherent and support all those affected by the explosion.
Original source: ILO