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DOT Lebanon: Empowering Communities Online

SDGs Impacted

Digital Opportunity Trust Lebanon (DOT Lebanon) answers the dire need to develop skills -digital and 21st-century- of the future to youth, recent graduates and those looking for employment in Lebanon from all nationalities. DOT Lebanon provides skills development programs to build and enhance 21st-century skills within marginalized, refugee and host communities in Lebanon to prepare them for the jobs of the future. The impact is seen through 71 projects with over 200 national and international NGOs, Schools and Municipalities in over 150 Lebanese and refugee communities nationwide providing education technological and digital strengthening for teachers across learning systems and digital and entrepreneurship capacity building through equipping teachers and youth with digital and entrepreneurial skills to improve their livelihoods.

Impact / Outcome
DOT Lebanon’s ICT in Education program educates school teachers on using new pedagogical approaches in their classroom which expose students to technology at a very young age – creating opportunities for digital literacy in early education. The program has reached 2,048 beneficiaries. The Technology and Entrepreneurship Program offers young people a wide range of curricula tailored to advance beneficiaries from basic to intermediate to a point where they can learn entrepreneurship and advanced digital skills – so far the program has upskilled over 20,000 beneficiaries.
Funding sources
Fully Private
Key Metrics
Support teaching of basic digital skills to enter the job market, for inclusive livelihoods, and for basic survival
Locations
Middle East & North Africa, Lebanon
Sector
Education
Intervention lever
Policy
Operating model
Fully private
Target population
Migrants & refugees
Year published
01 January 2023

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