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| About the Partnership |
The Partnership for Lebanon was launched by U.S. business leaders in September 2006 to provide critically needed resources to assist the reconstruction efforts in Lebanon and to help build a better future for the Lebanese people.
The Partnership's leaders include : | |
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation
John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Yousif Ghafari, Chairman, GHAFARI, Inc.
Dr. Ray Irani, Chairman, President and CEO, Occidental Petroleum
Corporation
The Partnership is working with businesses in the United States, Lebanon and across the globe to forge public-private partnerships designed to expand the reach of education and workforce training, create jobs and build Lebanon's technology infrastructure. For more information about the Partnership, email
info@partnershipforlebanon.org
The focus of the partnership
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Connected Communities
The Partnership is working to enable full-service online community access points in Lebanon, offering citizens local portals to access job training, healthcare, education and other government resources. A pilot program for five connected community centers has been initiated in the villages of Alma al Chaab, Baalbeck, Bint Jbeil, Bourj al Barajneh, and Nabatieh. To find out how you can get involved, please email connectedcommunities@partnershipforlebanon.org |
Workforce Training and Education
The Partnership is placing qualified Lebanese interns in top businesses in the U.S. and elsewhere to improve worker training and education, provide critical skills training and knowledge transfer to Lebanon's youth, and plant the seeds for sustainable economic growth. The Partnership plans to place 500 interns in top companies around the world over the next three years. The first group of interns has already arrived in the United States. To find out how you can get involved, please email workforcetraining@partnershipforlebanon.org. |
Job Creation/Private Sector Revival
The Partnership is working to create jobs and grow key industries by identifying financing and capital for promising Lebanese business projects, or matching them with compatible American business ventures. More than 100 projects have been identified in six key industries: technology, tourism, banking and finance, agribusiness, health care and manufacturing. The United States Chamber of Commerce has launched a web portal allowing U.S. based companies to browse business opportunities in Lebanon, and is conducting a series of business classes at the American University in Beirut for many of the Lebanese businesses featured on the website. To find out how you can get involved, please email privatesector@partnershipforlebanon.org. |
ICT Infrastructure
The Partnership is committed to connectivity by helping modernize Lebanon's ICT infrastructure, improve the speed and efficiency of Internet traffic flow, provide a foundation for improved communications and e-commerce, and potentially decrease costs for the Lebanese people. The effort includes assistance to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (TRA) to establish an enabling environment for ICT that can promote innovation, investment and infrastructre development as well as working to provide an International Internet Gateway and Internet Exchange Point for the country. To find out how you can get involved, please email ICTinfrastructure@partnershipforlebanon.org. |
Relief and Response
Working with proven NGOs including ANERA, Habitat for Humanity, Mercy Corps, and UNICEF, funds raised by the Partnership are being used to rebuild homes, rehabilitate schools, and expand workforce training programs. To find out how you can get involved, please email reliefandresponse@partnershipforlebanon.org. | |
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