The ILO is organizing an Academy on Youth Employment under the framework of the ILO/Sida Partnership Programme, and in cooperation with the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO).
Objective of Academy
The overall objective of the Academy is to develop the capacity of ILO constituents and decision makers including youth organizations to tackle the multi-faceted dimensions of the youth employment challenge. More specifi cally, the Academy aims to:
Foster better understanding of labour market concepts for rigorous diagnosis of youth employment challenges with due attention to the gender dimension;
Promote best-practices for mainstreaming youth employment into national employment policies and development frameworks;
Promote multi-pronged and integrated approach in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating decent job creation for youth;
Enhance knowledge and tools that support action on youth employment through the development of national action plans and national programmes on youth employment;
Promote gender-mainstreaming and social dialogue as central elements for tackling the global youth employment challenges;
Enhance knowledge and experience sharing on youth employment policies including active labour market policies, youth entrepreneurship, skills development and youth transition to formality;
Review the mix of policy instruments that can be used to achieve youth employment policy objectives;
Enhance knowledge for monitoring and evaluation of youth employment initiatives;
Foster youth rights and green jobs for youth as an integral component of youth employment strategies; and
Share experience and best practices on inter-institutional coordination mechanisms on youth employment policy and programme development.
Participants
An integrated and coordinated approach to youth employment problems supposes that all partners engage in dialogue and build networks and partnerships that foster cooperation and make use of synergies, resources, knowledge and expertise.
This Academy is primarily for:
Senior Government officials involved in the design and implementation of employment policies, including staff from Ministries in charge of employment and labour issues, economy and planning, education or training.
Representatives of workers and employers organisations.
Young leaders working on youth employment issues and active in the promotion of decent work for youth.
Other participants may be:
Staff of agencies responsible for labour market intermediation and vocational training.
Other relevant stakeholders (international and regional organizations dealing with youth employment issues, practitioners, and ILO staff).
A gender-balanced participation is sought.
Online applications should be filled in no later than 4 September 2016. Apply now!
The main objective of the Academy is to enhance the capacity of decision-makers (notably Ministries of Labour and other relevant Government institutions and workers and employers organizations) to develop comprehensive strategies for tackling the multi-faceted dimensions of the youth employment challenge, with gender mainstreamed.
Desirous to expand the social dialogue and to provide a space for the views of the targeted group (the youth), the Academy also promotes the participation of representatives of youth-organizations.
