Program

09.00 – 09.30

Reception and Registration

09.30 – 09.45

Social Safety Network for Children and Youth: Introduction and Objectives

Mrs. Maria Assi, Director of programs at the YMCA-Lebanon (Speech)

09.45 – 10.00

Youth Stocktaking Study and Mayor Perception

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Turki, Executive Director of MENA Child Protection Initiative

10.00 – 10.15

Viewing indicative experience of the social safety net
Ms. Janine Nawfal, Director of vocational training program YMCA - Lebanon
Ms. Salam Mawas, Director of the New Ahed School in AL-KOBAH
Professor Michel Khoury, photography and photoshop trainer

10.15 – 10.30

Poverty Reduction Project

Dr. Osman Nour, Coordinator of Urban Poverty project, AUDI

10.30 – 11.00

Ceremony of the distribution of certificates for vocational training courses

11.00 – 12.00

Speeches

President of Tripoli Municipality, Engineer Rashid Jamali
Director of the YMCA - Lebanon, Professor Joseph Awad
Director of the Arab Urban Development Institute, Ahmed Al-Salloum
HE Minister of Social Affairs, Dr. Salim Sayegh

12.00 – 12.30

Break

12.30 – 01.45

Workshops

Youth employment & Employability

Child Labor & Reintegration of school drop outs

Poverty reduction through improving social status

Poverty reduction through improving health status

01.45 – 02.45

Lunch Break

02.45 – 03.30

Recommendations

Dr. Elie Mekhael, Secretary General of the Higher Council for Childhood

Ministry of Social Affairs