Past Programs

  The Accelerated Vocational Training Program (AVTP) began in May 2003 and continued through April 2009. The five-year project (plus one-year extension) focused on enhancing the economic and social status of young men and women in the poorest areas of Lebanon, especially the unemployed, school...
2003 - 2009
  On July 15, 2003, the YMCA of the USA with the YMCA of Lebanon, signed a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to undertake an integrated environment program initiative - Sustainable Environmental Practices and Policies Program (SEPP).  The aim of the...
2003 - 2009
  Through a fund from the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), of nearly $US 874,000, the YMCA of Lebanon, along with the leading Lebanese Newspaper An-Nahar, the Forum for Parliamentary Dialogue (FFPD), the International Management and Training Institute (IMTI), and several additional...
2005 - 2007
  In partnership with the YMCA of the USA and with funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the YMCA of Lebanon implemented an integrated production-processing-marketing supply chain program called Stimulating Markets and Rural Transformation (SMART).    The 3-...
2002 - 2005
  The YMCA is pleased to submit its Final Report to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the five-year Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) in Lebanon. The program ran from 1997 to 2002.  Through a Cooperative Agreement, totaling $ 9,979,682 over a period of five years...
1997 - 2002
  Funded by the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and a philanthropic group of Mexicans of Lebanese Origins, the Development of Agricultural Extension Centers in Southern Lebanon ran from 2006 to 2012.   Beginning in 2006, the YMCA worked to rehabilitate 3 agricultural extension centers in South...
2006 - 2012