Implementing Agreement for the Delivery of an Accelerated Competency-Based Training (CBT) and Structured Work-Based Learning (WBL) Employment Pathways in Syria

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General Background Years of conflict and economic decline have severely weakened Syria’s infrastructure, public services, labour market systems, and productive sectors, limiting opportunities for economic recovery and sustainable livelihoods. Returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), women, youth, and host communities face significant barriers to decent work, skills development, enterprise support, and access to essential services. Although the evolving recovery context creates opportunities to support voluntary, safe, and dignified returns, persistent unemployment, informality, skills mismatches, and weak local economic systems continue to hinder sustainable reintegration and social cohesion. Addressing these challenges is critical to promoting inclusive recovery, resilience, and long-term stability in affected communities. OF DS - Return and Rebuild: Advancing Voluntary Returns and Sustainable Reintegration for Syrians” The “Return and Rebuild: Advancing Voluntary Returns and Sustainable Reintegration for Syrians” project is implemented under the PROSPECTS Partnership Phase II Opportunity Fund by UNHCR, UNICEF and ILO, with a regional scope covering Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The project responds to the evolving displacement and return context following major political and economic shifts in Syria, including the December 2024 political transition and the lifting of international sanctions. These developments have created new opportunities to support voluntary, safe and dignified returns, while also highlighting the urgent need to address barriers faced by Syrian refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees, including limited access to civil documentation, damaged infrastructure, disrupted education, weak labour market systems, unemployment, and fragile social cohesion. The project seeks to create an enabling environment for sustainable return and reintegration by linking protection, education, skills development, livelihoods, enterprise recovery and social cohesion interventions across host countries and inside Syria. In line with the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus approach of PROSPECTS, the project combines immediate protection and return preparedness with longer-term investments in skills that are relevant to the market and aspirations of learners, decent work opportunities, inclusive enterprise development and institutional capacity-building, ensuring that returnees and host communities can access services, rights and economic opportunities in a coordinated and sustainable manner. Assignment Objective The overall objective of this assignment is to accelerate the labour market integration and sustainable reintegration of returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), women, youth, and persons with disabilities in Syria through rapid, reconstruction-linked, and market-driven employment pathways that combine accelerated Competency-Based Training (CBT) and structured Work-Based Learning (WBL). The intervention is fully aligned with the ILO Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142), the ILO Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195), the ILO Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), the Quality Apprenticeship Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), and the objectives of the PROSPECTS Phase II Opportunity Fund, the EU Durable Solutions Programme, the ILO Programme of Support for Syria, and the United Nations Transitional Action Plan for Syria. The intervention aims to improve access to wage employment opportunities for approximately 1,100 returnees, IDPs, vulnerable youth, women, and persons with disabilities in targeted governorates- Aleppo-Idleb and Hamah - through practical learning pathways that respond to labour market demand while reflecting the skills, aspirations, and prior experiences of beneficiaries. By expanding access to market-relevant skills development and workplace learning opportunities, strengthening employer enga

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• Issued by ILO.
• Located in Syria.
• Source notice Mohamad Anas Sabee – ILO Country Coordinator and Skills Specialist, sabee@ilo.org Lara Al Hajj – Finance, Administration and Procurement Officer, alhajj@ilo.org on UNGM.
• Notice published 17 Jun 2026; Tenqual indexed it 18 Jun 2026.
• Deadline listed as 7 Jul 2026.
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