Implementation Agreement - Strengthening Public Employment Services, Career Guidance, Job Matching, and Referral Systems for Returnees, IDPs, and Local Communities in Syria

Strengthening Public Employment Services, Career Guidance, Job Matching, and Referral Systems for Returnees, IDPs, and Local Communities in Syria Syria continues to face significant displacement, recovery, and reintegration challenges following years of conflict, economic decline, and damage to infrastructure, public services, and livelihoods. Returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), women, youth, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable local communities face limited access to decent work opportunities, weak livelihood prospects, skills gaps, and constrained enterprise support, affecting economic recovery, social cohesion, and sustainable reintegration. In response, the joint UNHCR–IOM–ILO Durable Solutions Programme in Syria adopts an integrated approach to support national institutions, returnees, IDPs, and host communities through strengthened national systems, labour market governance, and employment pathways. ILO interventions specifically focus on market-relevant skills, employment services, financial inclusion, enterprise development, and institutional capacity-building. The assignment will focus on Aleppo, Hama, and Idleb. Objective The overall objective of this TOR is to support the transition of Syrian returnees, IDPs, and vulnerable local populations into decent employment and self-employment opportunities through strengthened employment services, career guidance, job matching, referral pathways, and employer engagement through the engagement of a qualified NGO/INGO. The intervention will support 3,200 job seekers through a structured two-day integrated employment services package, delivered through Public Employment Services (PES) and Directorate of Social Affairs and Labour (DoSAL) centres under MoSAL, TVET centres, UNHCR community centres, NGOs, youth centres, community centres, and other partner facilities. Major activities under this intervention: Provide employability and career guidance support to returnees, IDPs, youth, women, persons wit