57 165. Promoting youth employment

Youth employment overview of challenges

Youth and Employment Training for Sustainability

Links between child labour and youth employment

The establishment of the United Nations Youth Fund and the launching of the Youth Employment Network encouraged the promotion of national action plans for youth employment.

Many other Member States have prepared or are in the process of preparing national action plans on youth employment, or other policy or strategic documents on employment or on youth which address youth employment.

Employment creation linking youth employment to macroeconomic policy policies to stimulate demand and to create additional jobs for new labour market entrants linking youth employment to overall employment policies, including intergenerational aspects investment policies

Youth employment is also a priority area in the World Programme of Action for Youth.

Impact of youth employment on conflict prevention and resolution

(d) Promoting programmes for the employment of women and youth

The training of rural youth for self employment scheme is designed to specifically train rural youth in skills to enable them to take up self employment.

2 Youth Employment Summit Secretariat Youth unemployment The current scenario (May 2002), from http www.yesweb.org docs issuestatement.pdf.

The participation of youth, including through youth employment, is also vital to finding solutions to global environmental problems.

28. The International Youth Year was supposed to promote a special youth policy focusing on education and employment.

Promoting youth employment and skills development in the context of globalization

Syria recently became a State party to the Youth Employment Network.

Many submissions include statistics outlining the current employment situation for youth.

1 International Labour Office, Global Employment Trends for Youth (Geneva, 2004).

I am pleased to represent here one of the leading countries of the Youth Employment Network, a major international initiative to address the challenge of youth employment globally.

The Economic Commission for Africa, for example, has made specific recommendations with regard to youth employment, highlighting the role of the Youth Employment Network in addressing this challenge.

Only one country reports that it is reviewing its past employment policies, specific youth plans and poverty reduction strategies to develop a strategic approach to addressing youth employment.

The High Level Panel on Youth Employment has recommended that countries adopt an integrated approach for employment policy development.

The European Union welcomes the progress made by the Secretary General's Youth Employment Network and encourages its further expansion to facilitate the implementation of national action plans for youth employment.

Likewise, little information was provided on previous policies and strategies relevant to youth employment, such as poverty reduction strategies, national youth policies, national employment policies or reports on relevant ILO conventions.

The Youth Employment Strategy is the Government of Canada's commitment to helping young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment.

Among the key priorities of this policy are the participation of youth in decision making, non formal education and youth employment.

Indonesia also seeks to mainstream youth employment issues into local economic development initiatives.

C. The process of formulating and developing national action plans on youth employment

5 For more information on the Youth Employment Network, see resolution 57 165 see also www.ilo.org public english employment strat yen.

The Government of my country has implemented alternative employment measures essentially managed by a network of agencies specialized in promoting youth employment.

The conference deals with education, conflict prevention and resolution, risky behavior, and youth employment.

The Youth Employment Strategy (YES) is outlined in Canada's Fourth Report under this Covenant.

Promoting youth employment is therefore one of the top priorities for the Swedish Government.

Criteria for a global analysis and evaluation of national action plans on youth employment

159. Three main strategies have been tried to improve the employment situation of youth.

19. Encourages, in this context, current initiatives of the United Nations system on the elaboration of comprehensive employment strategies and measures to foster youth employment, bearing in mind relevant international instruments pertaining to youth

20. Encourages, in this context, current initiatives of the United Nations system on the elaboration of comprehensive employment strategies and measures to foster youth employment, bearing in mind relevant international instruments pertaining to youth

The index could measure literacy, the rates of enrolment of students in secondary school, youth employment and the marginalization of specific youth groups.

Expectation was expressed that Governments must create and promote employment and training opportunities for youth.

However, if Governments employ specific programmes to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship at the national level, we will succeed in significantly reducing youth unemployment.

As an active contributor to the Youth Employment Network, ILO had a special role to play in promoting youth employment and could act as a catalyst in mobilizing support and implementing integrated policies and programmes to effectively meet the Millennium Declaration's commitment on decent and productive work for youth.

This ill gotten money should be recovered and put into a special fund for youth employment.

Collectively, these steps increased employment opportunities for all Ontarians, including Aboriginal people, youth and visible minorities.

A second conclusion is that reported youth employment policies have focused largely on the supply side.

The Youth Employment Network, which I launched in 2001 in partnership with the heads of the World Bank and ILO, has been promoting the preparation of national action plans for youth employment in an increasing number of countries.