News, articles and events on youth employment

ILO Executive Evaluation Course, Amman 2017

As part of ILO’s partnership with IFAD, the IFAD financed project “Strengthening gender monitoring and evaluation in rural employment in the Near East and North Africa”, an executive course on evaluating labour market programmes is being offered. The five-day course covers cutting edge techniques for evaluation and results based management for active labour market programmes with a particular focus on measuring gender outcomes in rural employment.

UN agencies launch youth entrepreneurship and self-employment campaign to boost transition towards decent work

27 June 2017

On the occasion of Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises International Day, UN agencies launch a campaign on solutions to address the unique obstacles to youth entrepreneurship and self-employment.
Guy Ryder announces “Digital Skills for Decent Jobs for Youth” Campaign

13 June 2017

A unique global partnership will bring the benefits of the digital economy to young people.

10th ILO Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour: Realizing Decent Work under the 2030 Agenda

This year the Meeting will present an opportunity to have an exchange on the continuing challenge to promote a more inclusive and sustainable growth process with more and better jobs, as well as allow the Ministers to articulate and share their perspectives around the Future of Work, drawing from the national level dialogues that have occurred in the past year.

Employment: What stands between youth and decent jobs?

30 October 2016

More youth seem to prefer staying in school to getting a job early in life. That’s good news. Yet more than 200 million young people are either unemployed or have a job but live in poverty. Explore this InfoStory to learn more about global employment trends for young people and what stands between them and a decent job.

ILO calls for concrete action to tackle youth employment challenge in Latin America

03 May 2016

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has paid a two-day visit to Colombia where he met with President Juan Manuel Santos and tripartite Colombian representatives. He also addressed the 9th Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of Labour emphasising the persistent challenges of youth unemployment and informality.

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