MEPI Local grantee Lebanese Center for Active Citizenship (LCAC) successfully empowered and trained 100 refugee and Lebanese women to produce and sell high quality fishing nets. The program also trained the women on how to market their product and cut out middle men, further empowering these women economically in their communities. The women have been able to ...
Read More» By lachinml | 24 February, 2020 | Topics: Business, Economic Issues, Gender Issues, Job Opportunities, News, Success Stories, Trade, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Business, Commerce, economic growth, Entrepreneurship, Grants, Lebanon, MENA, MEPI, news, Success Stories, trade, Training, women
MEPI’s support of Civil Society boosts the integration of Israel’s minorities in the Hi-Tech sector and helps increase Israel’s overall GDP MEPI’s support to civil society organizations, especially within the Arab community in Israel, has successfully helped to integrate marginalized communities in Israeli society by providing them access to economic opportunities. MEPI, through the Embassy, ...
Read More» By lachinml | 20 February, 2020 | Topics: Business, Commercial Opportunities, Economic Issues, Embassy, Job Opportunities, News, Science & Tech, Success Stories, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Arabs of Israel, assistance, Business, Civic Engagement, economic growth, Employment, Israel, MEPI, Minorities, news, Success Stories, technology, Training, US Embassy
On March 22, 2017 the MEPI Administrator attended the training session which was conducted by Nisaa FM in cooperation with Bank of Palestine and funded by MEPI through a local grant entitled “Aswaq “on marketing skills. Several Women Entrepreneurs from all over West Bank participated and were able to present their small business ideas and ...
Read More» By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 3 April, 2017 | Topics: Events, Gender Issues, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, MEPI, Training, West Bank, women
