UNGA74: Future of Work for Youth: Strategic Partnerships for Youth Employment, 23 September
On the sidelines of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly 74th session, the ILO Office for the United Nations, together with the Russia Mission to the UN, LUKOIL, and the Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, will co-host the event “Future of Work for Youth: Strategic Partnerships for Youth Employment” on September 23th from 6-7:15 p.m.
The high-level event will showcase the role of public-private partnerships in promoting and facilitating a human centred agenda with the focus on youth employment and innovative measures supporting decent jobs for youth. The ILO-LUKOIL Public Private initiative on “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the CIS” is an important effort to secure coherence and connection between education, skills development and employment policies.
The agenda will include an opening segment, a high-level panel on “Strategic Partnerships for Youth Employment” and an interactive discussion to share the wealth of experience from different actors in society. A young leader from Kyrgyzstan will deliver closing remarks on behalf of young people. A reception will follow the event.
Speakers:
H.E. Mr. Vasily Nebenzya, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations
Mr. Guy Ryder, Director General, International Labour Organization
Mr. Vladislav Kaim, Representative of the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, Republic of Moldova
Ms Tanzila Narbaeva, Senate Chairperson, Republic of Uzbekistan
Mr. Yaroslav Nilov, Chair of the Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veterans’ Affairs, State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation
Mr. Alexey Cherkasov, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, Russian Federation
Mr. Nozim Khusanov, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Uzbekistan
Mr. Anatoly Moskalenko, Vice-President, LUKOIL, Representative of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)
Ms Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
Mr Roberto Suarez, Secretary General, International Organisation of Employers
H.E. Mr. Iván Ontaneda, Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries, Ecuador
H.E. Mr. Jackson Mthembu, Minister in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
Mr. Fuad Musayev, President, the State Employment Service, Azerbaijan
Ms. Elvira Kalmurzaeva, Executive Director, IDEA, Kyrgyzstan
