Weaving Hope: Empowering Syria's Garment Industry and Workforce

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are undertaking an integrated and collaborative intervention to enhance the competitiveness and decent job creation potential of the garment supply chain in Syria. The project revitalizes Syria’s textile industry through a comprehensive approach that enhances shop-floor operations, upgrades production facilities, and supports modern technological interventions. This includes conducting a gender-mainstreamed market assessment to identify opportunities and challenges, advocating for reforms with industry bodies, and promoting local supply chain providers to adopt measures to promote equality and green technologies and advanced equipment that improve efficiency, occupational safety, and output, as well as enhancing productive capacities through infrastructure and technological improvements, promoting environmentally sustainable practices and improving work conditions. Market-driven skills development, targeting both women and men is a key component, including the technical skills of procured equipment and spare parts that require operational instructions. A specific focus is placed on engaging with refugees and diaspora who might start to think on coming back or reinvest in the country. The project also works with young female and male talents from technical and vocational education and training (TVET) centers and universities for job placement and entrepreneurship support.

Project symbol

SYR/24/05/ITA

Admin unit

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

Start date

03/04/2025

End date

02/04/2027

Total allocation

1172705

Total expenditure

Status

Active

307514

Development Partners

Italy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Country/Countries

Syrian Arab Republic

Outcomes

Output 9.4. Improved coherence in support and action to advance decent work outcomes in supply chains