Rise2030

 

RISE2030 is an on-going award winning community-led initiative that focuses on empowering women and youth, aiming at capacity building and improving living conditions through access to education and employment. Rise2030 launched the first all-women solar team in Lebanon to challenge the gender stereotypes in the male-dominated construction sector.

​​Rise2030 is composed of a series of comprehensive on-ground projects designed to achieve rural development, individual empowerment, and decentralization of power. The initiative empowers women, youth and refugees while contributing to Lebanon’s climate transition by providing sustainable education and employment in the green sector in deprived regions of Lebanon.

This project provides high-quality vocational training, professional education and job placement to bridge the gap between supply and demand in the renewable energy labor market with a goal to improve the self-reliance of underprivileged youth, women and refugees.
It also focuses on exchanging experience on practical know-how, technology transfer and qualification concepts across national borders.

Rise2030 Activities

Youth Training & Employment in
​​the Renewable Energy Sector

​The project focuses on creating green job opportunities while improving the basic infrastructure of local communities in the solar energy sector.

Powering Aitannit's Waste water treatment plant

​In the face of persistent power shortages in Lebanon, the need for renewable energy solutions is only growing bigger. As part of the RISE2030 initiative, a team of 30 women installed a PV solar system providing Aitannit’s waste water treatment plant with solar power.

Supporting Women Associations in
​Rural Areas of Lebanon

Supporting rural development and empowering local female business by means of generating income and employment opportunities.
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Material Recovery Facility solarization in Qaraoun

RISE2030 ​Community members were trained and educated to design and install an on-grid solar photovoltaic system that would cover 100% of the facility's daily need for power. Qaroun Material Recovery Facility is a model for sustainable facilities, reducing waste volume, promoting circular economy, and running on solar. 

Sustainable Community
​Building

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​The project includes different activities designed together to rebuild communities in a sustainable way while creating job opportunities to support  undeserved youth. ​

Rise2030 community members implement 1st solar tree in Lebanon!

​The team was involved in various other tasks such as cleaning, grading, trimming and planting trees in Sohmor Park. They also executed an ecotourism trail between Qaraoun and Sohmor Garden in partnership with LRI.

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Beirut Blast Response

Following the explosion of tons of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse at the port of Beirut, 300,000 people lost their homes (OCHA) and more than 50,000 houses were impacted by the detonation according to the Order of Engineers and Architects (OEA).
According to the presidency of the Republic, the estimated damages amount to approximately 15 billion USD.
The persisting economic and political crisis left vulnerable families and individuals without sufficient governmental help and without the financial ability to rebuild or refurbish their homes. 

“Beirut Blast response” provided emergency assistance to vulnerable families and individuals affected by the explosion. It supported 17 already-existing organizations by recruiting a workforce of 500 vulnerable/unemployed individuals to assist the organizations in their post-blast relief efforts. 

The wide scope of relief efforts consisted of home renovations and minor reparations, cleaning streets and houses, landscaping, waste management and recycling, conducting damage assessments, up-cycling and distributing basic necessities (food, clothes, medical care, hygienic products, furniture). The initiative supported the aforementioned 500 vulnerable individuals by providing them with income through short-term cash-for-work employments.

Blast Response is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) ConTra program in partnership with Sustainable Empowerment For Youth. It is commissioned by Germany. ConTra Is implemented by GIZ in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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COVID-19 Response

​The COVID-19 crisis lockdown had a major impact on the Lebanese Economy. The country was already suffering from a financial crisis prior to the pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis has further worsened the economic crisis.
Sixty four percent of workers in small-scale enterprises who were unable to go to work due to the lockdown did not receive any payment from their employers as per the ILO.
The “COVID-19 Initiative” alleviated the situation by providing emergency assistance to vulnerable families, individuals and municipalities affected by the COVID crisis.

Sustainable Empowerment for Youth supported 25 cities by procuring 845 workers who came to their communities' aid during recurring lockdown periods.
The initiative enabled municipalities to take appropriate precautions to prevent further spreading of COVID-19. Checkpoints were set-up around villages to closely monitor COVID-19 cases. Workers performed routine street cleaning, participated in food and medical supply distribution and offered assistance to the elderly and those in need.