Chamber Of Commerce, Industry And Agriculture Of Zahle And Bekaa - Jobs

The Chamber of Commerce, industry and Agriculture of Zahle and Bekaa is looking for an expert in industrial waste water treatment to support SMEs in installing/upgrading their WWTP.

The Chamber of Zahle and Bekaa is hiring an External Expert/Evaluator for MedbeesinessHubs project, to ensure the overall quality of project outputs and its methodological consistency. The External Evaluator will carry out evaluation activities & reports, thereby offering independent external evaluation of the project and its progress.
the Evaluation will take place on two levels:
 Project Outputs level
 Capitalised Outputs level

The project “Boosting cross border Organic Ecosystem through enhancing agro-food alliances”, funded by the EU under ENI CBC MED program, aims at improving the Mediterranean Organic sector competitiveness by strengthening innovative organic value chain. Consultancy services will be offered to support selected SMEs in innovative value chain creation on specific topics (finance, marketing, logistics, value chain structuring etc.) based on MSMEs needs.

The project MedBEESinessHubs funded by EU under ENI CBCMED, is launching a call for external expert to:
1- Prepare a local study on the economic value of networking around the honeybee products
2- Map the honeybee producers & policy frameworks at cross border level
3- Map policies in favor of beekeepers & processors
4- Prepare a consolidated report at the regional level (5 countries)
4- Conduct a Training workshop in participatory democracy for honeybee cluster formation in all partner regions
5- Elaborate report on MedBee economy concept in mainstream policies for rural development

The Chamber of Zahle & Bekaa through the help of the European Union and Expertise France have developed an Information System for Cherry, Table Grapes Value Chains and other crops. This Information System offers the following functionalities:
- Market Pricing Information
- Value Chain Directory
- Library Module

the CCIAZ is launching this TOR to recruit a communication expert on a medium term contract

The general purpose of the mission is for the short-term expert to provide support to the Key Expert in charge of Activity A.1.1. (check attached document)
The specific purpose of the mission is for the short-term expert to provide support to the Key Expert in the UAT phase of the Information System – Module 1 which includes three main modules: Market pricing, Directory & Library.

Expertise France, the French technical cooperation agency, has been entrusted by the European Union with a major Private Sector Development Programme in Lebanon. This programme is structured around three different components:

1. Component 1: agribusiness value chains in the Bekaa and Akkar.

 2. Component 2: wood Processing value chain in Tripoli (with focus on furniture production).

 3. Component 3: access to finance.

The programme aims to increase micro, small and medium enterprises competitiveness, productivity and participation in the economy by fostering their development and integration into value chains.

The specific objective of the programme is to provide integrated nonfinancial and financial intermediation services to groups of Micro and SMEs in the agribusiness and wood processing sectors through the establishment, management and operation of market-oriented value chains and clusters, with special focus on enhancement of productivity and competitiveness. Value chains and clusters are considered as the most appropriate specific approach for achieving concrete results in terms of effective inter-business, inter-sectoral and private/public institutional linkages.

 The expected outputs are:

1. MSMEs are reorganised into stronger groups for a more efficient and cost-effective use of inputs and resources

2. Market positioning and market access of MSMEs in the targeted sectors are expanded

3. Access to finance is facilitated for needed investments; available funding instruments are better used

4. New jobs and inclusive employment are created as a result of increased production and sales

As regards to the agribusiness component in the Bekaa, the inception phase diagnostics research has identified the below main activities of relevance to the enhancement of productivity and competitiveness of tables grapes and cherry value chains. 

A1.1 Setting up a Value Chain Information System

A1.2 Promoting marketing, sales and communications

A1.3 Business support to producers

A1.4 Technical support to producers

A1.5 Business and technical support to exporters and post-harvest

The implementation of these activities will be ensured either directly by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Zahle (CCIAZ) has been awarded a grant to accomplish the tasks expected of it or through the recruitment of dedicated operators by Expertise France.

Project Summary

Project Summary

-         Implement local and international market information systems
-         Insert data on CCIAZ website and mobile application