Within the framework of the second phase of the SOLiD project, BUSINESSMED organized on 23 and 24 September 2021 in Beirut-Lebanon, a training workshop to stimulate and enhance the concept of social dialogue and support the skills of the employers’ confederation who are members   such as the Association of Lebanese Industrialists and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.

The aim was to discuss new concepts about the comprehensive multilateral social dialogue as a tool to solve the crisis and to negotiate an economic recovery program for a solution to achieve sustainable development.

Lebanon witnessed an unprecedented economic crisis that coincided with the worst collapse of the local currency and the scarcity of the dollar, besides the high rate of inflation, which made finding an economic reform plan and developing the negotiation path very urgent and important to avoid a social explosion.

BUSINESSMED staff presented the first phase of the SOLID project and gave a general outlook on what will be organized and achieved during the second phase.

This training was an opportunity for representatives of employers in Lebanon to discuss the causes and coordination of the exacerbation of the crisis, the measures and proposals that should be negotiated with the social partners. The advantages of using multilateral social dialogue to engage all actors and decision-makers and ensure their involvement in defining a roadmap for achieving economic growth and sustainable development were also discussed.

This workshop is part of a set of training courses for different target groups in the countries of the second phase of the SOLiD project, followed by several bilateral and multilateral meetings and workshops in order to build an inclusive and structured social dialogue.