Following up on the training programme started in December 2020, the “Training of Trainers on gender equality and mainstreaming” was held on-line from February 1st 2021 for a total of 4 days. The course, organized in collaboration with the Directorate of Agriculture, the Directorate of Cooperatives, the Green Plan and the Lebanese Agriculture Research, involved several officers, heads of departments, administrative staff, researcher and experts from the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and other local institutions.  This training programme was framed around six training cycles...

12 cooperatives from Baalbak Hermel and two cooperatives from Akkar, beneficiaries of GEMAISA Project, took part in the event “Garage Souk”, held in Beirut from 18 to 23 December 2020 and organized in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and the Directorate of Cooperatives.,  This initiative aimed at increasing marketing opportunities, during the holyday season, of handmade products and crafts, including a huge variety of high-quality food products as those produced by GEMAISA cooperatives. Thanks to this activity, these cooperatives had the occasion to reach more...

A training programme on Gender Concepts and Mainstreaming started on 2 December 2020, organized by the GEMAISA team and MoA staff with the involvement of the gender expert and trainer Zeina Abdel Khalek. Due to the  COVID-19 restrictions, the training was held online, through the Zoom platform.  80 participants attended the training from the Directorate of Agriculture, the Green Plan and the Lebanese Agriculture Research Institute, with the objective of involving a larger audience including engineers, Heads of Departments and Head of services from other Directorates. The training was...

On October 27, 2020 the Lebanese team, together with Akkar Regional Agricultural Services distributed equipments to the dairy cooperatives targeted by the project in Akkar Governorate.  At the presence of the head of the Agricultural Services Department, two cooperatives – the Association of Cooperatives for Animal Resource Development in Hekr el Daher and the Association of Cooperatives for Developement and Animal Production  in Andit – received milking machines  and equipment for milk processing, including fridges, kichk drier and mill, sealing machine, milk...

A training focusing on gender-based violence, heritage and wage aimed at 25 women members of dairy cooperatives was realized at the Regional Agricultural Services premises in Abdeh, Akkar Governorate, on 24 June 2020. The training has been organized in collaboration with the Directorate for Agricultural Cooperatives, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the NGO RDFL (The Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering) and the puppet company “Les Amis des Marionettes”. The training aimed at increasing women’s knowledge on three relevant issues that have been at the forefront of public debate on women’s rights...

to improve access to agricultural services for women and men farmers in Akkar and Baalbeck-Hermel Governorates, Lebanon To increase the collaboration among different Ministries and deliver more efficient services to women and men agricultural producers, two sensitization trainings were realized at the Social Services Center of Al Ain in Baalbeck- Hermel, on 3rd February 2020, and at the Regional Agricultural Services in Abdeh, Akkar, on 13th February 2020. The events were coordinated by the GEMAISA project team in collaboration with the Governorates’ Regional Agricultural Services, the Directorate...