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UPCOMING

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5th Meeting of the YEN Lead Country Network YEN’s 5th Annual Lead Country meeting will take place on May 11-12, 2011 in London, UK hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat May

 

PAST

2011

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YEN Advocacy in the Pacific Region

The Pacific Office of the Commonwealth Youth Programme, with support from the Government of Vanuatu and the ILO hosted a major regional conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

March
A Ganar Alliance partners with Y2Y Guinea to teach employment skills through sport YEN partnered with Partners of the Americas’ A Ganar Alliance to teach 9 trainers from the Youth to Youth (Y2Y) Fund in Guinea how to use football to equip youth... February

 

2009

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4th Lead Country Meeting: Benchmarking tools and best practices in youth employment The Youth Employment Network (YEN), organized a meeting of YEN Lead Countries featuring training and discussions on “Benchmarking Tools and Best Practices in Youth Employment” Dec
Measuring Results in Youth: Experience from training interventions On January 20th, 2009, YEN convened a workshop entitled “Measuring Results in Youth Employment: Experience from training interventions” in Amman, Jordan Jan

 

2008

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Grant Scheme Information Events in MRU YEN's team in the West Africa office delivered 3 information events on the recenely launched Competitive Grant Scheme. The purpose of the events held Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoir Dec
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 Oct 1
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. Sept 15
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 Afric May 21

 

2007

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"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 theme... 9th October, 9th and 13th December

 

2005
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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.... June
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..... October
High Level Panel meetings 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 2001 - 2005

 

 
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