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News and events
Recent Events
- 21-22 May, 2008, Accra, Ghana
Regional Workshop on Business Collaboration for Youth Employment in West Africa
The workshop brought together the project managers from 10 business-sponsored youth employment projects around West Africa. The objective of the workshop was to provide a platform of exchange for project managers of the good practice projects; generate ideas for how to improve and scale up initiatives; and provide direction and guidance for future activities of YEN-WA’s Private Sector Initiative. A major outcome of the workshop was participants support for the development of further tools to support business’s involvement in youth employment such as partnership brokering and ICT tools.
- 9th October, 9th and 13th December, 2007, New York, Brussels and Dakar
"Joining Forces with Youth People: A Practical Guide to Collaboration for Youth Employment" Launch
The events, held in New York, Brussels and Dakar respectively, included both an official launch of the publication and a moderated panel discussion based on the key themes addressed in the guide including: the value of youth participation, strategies for effective engagement between youth and policymakers, and how youth organizations can contribute to addressing the youth employment challenge.
- June 7, 2005, ILO, Geneva
ILC Special Side Event: Bringing Youth Employment into the International Development Agenda
The event was an interactive panel discussion involving labour ministers, members of tripartite delegations to the ILC, young people drawn from YEN's Youth Consultative Group and other youth non-governmental organizations as well as experts and practitioners on youth employment from international and civil society organisations. The event served to catalyse the support of the international community around the importance of youth employment to implementing the goals of the Millennium Declaration and to the interrelated international agendas on development and collective security and to involve youth more substantively in policy discussions.
Lead Country Meetings
- 01 October 2008 - 02 October 2008, Geneva
3rd Lead Country Meeting: Establishing Benchmarks for successful Youth Employment Policies/Programmes
The objective of the 3rd YEN Lead Country meeting was to initiate a benchmarking discussion on establishing indicators used in evaluating and measuring the quality of National Action Plan’s (NAPs). The meeting drew on the NAP development of a selected number of YEN Lead Countries. Representatives of the Ministries of Labour and technicians playing a key role in designing and implementing NAPs participated in this event. In addition, employment and evaluation specialists from YEN core partners – World Bank and International Labour Office provided key information to participants.
- 08 October, 2005, New York, USA
2nd Lead Country Meeting: 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly
In direct follow up to becoming a Lead Country, Jamaica’s Ambassador to the UN hosted a meeting of YEN Lead Countries in New York during the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Participants discussed Lead Countries plans and progress in formulating and implementing National Action Plans. Through this peer sharing, members identified political, technical, and financial keys to overcome youth employment challenges. Practical ways in which the Lead Countries can work together and build a broad-based community were discussed. The event served to encourage the development of Peer Partnerships in tackling youth employment at a global level.
- 15 September 2008 - 19 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
1st Lead Country Meeting: XV Malente Symposium: Youth Employment, Empowerment and Participation: Securing the Future
The conference examined the impact of youth employment on poverty reduction under the framework of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. The 350 participants focused their discussions on the development of policies and strategies which enhance social integration through employment. The symposium tackled two major policy intervention areas as identified by YEN: employability and entrepreneurship, and lead to Uganda announcing their motiviation to become an 11th Lead country.
High Level Panel Meetings
- 19 - 20 May 2005, Beijing, China
4th High Level Panel Meeting
The All-China Youth Federation hosted the 4th meeting of the YENs High-Level Panel in Beijing. The meeting served as an opportunity for the High-Level Panel to appraise its own role and to determine its own future.In a letter to Kofi Annan outlining the outcomes of the meeting the Panel recognized that its mandate to deliver a strategy had been fulfilled and was now well advanced into the implementation stage. The Panellists set out a series of recommendations on the future role and directions of the Youth Employment Network, as well as on the governance structure required to put these new strategic directions into effect.
- 27 - 28 September, 200, Washington, USA
3rd High Level Panel Meeting
The meeting saw a review of activities in the Lead Countries and a strong commitment by the Panel, the Core Partners and youth to mobilize the governments in the lead countries to prepare National Action Plans in time for the five-year review of the MDGs in 2005. The meeting also saw the launch of a YEN Youth Consultative Group comprising of representatives of large international and regional youth organisations.
- 30 June - July 1, 2003, Geneva, Switzerland
2nd High Level Panel Meeting
The objective of this meeting was to outline and agree on the next steps in the implementation of the Youth Employment Network's strategy. The Panel proposed five new steps on policy and process to be taken by the YEN to promote youth employment including the endorsement of a plan to encourage national governments to translate the policy recommendations into action through National Review and Action Plans on youth employment.
- 16 - 17 July 2001, Geneva, Switzerland
1st High Level Panel Meeting
At the invitation of the UN, ILO and World Bank, twelve eminent persons were appointed members of the High-Level Panel on Youth Employment in 2001. The High-Level Panel Met at ILO headquarters with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, ILO Director General Juan Somavia and World Bank President Mr. James Wolfensohn where they prepared a set of policy proposals in promotion of decent work opportunities for young people. Mr. Annan asked the ILO to act as lead agency for a Youth Employment High-Level Network, including the work of organizing and seeking the necessary funding for a permanent secretariat for the Network. On the second day, youth representatives met with the High-Level Panel members and presented their views on the Network in a working group chaired by the ILO Director-General. The High-Level Panel agreed to act in an advisory capacity, providing its views and expertise on the proposed recommendations, as well as mobilizing public opinion and action for youth employment.
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