The ILO and Youth Employment

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The ILO and Youth Employment

• Hopolang Phororo
• ILO
• Parallel Session on Multilateral Agencies
  Investing in Youth Employment
• YES Kenya 2006
• Nairobi, Kenya
• September 13-16 2006

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Key policy issues

• Youth employment is a top priority in
  international and national development agendas
• An issue that calls for urgent action
• An area of intervention by several partners at
  national and international level

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ILOs policy framework

• Policy framework is derived from the 2005 ILC
  resolution
• ILO Plan of Action
• Extent to which the Plan of Action fits in with
  ongoing activities at the national level and with
  other agencies
• At regional level, activities are guided by a
  Resolution on youth employment

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ILOs interventions on youth employment

• Addresses youth employment within broad
  interventions to improve the employment situation
• Tackles youth employment through an integrated
  approach combining
• - macro micro
• - supply demand
• - quantity quality
• Addressing solutions through tripartite
  constituents

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ILO challenges

• To prioritize youth initiatives
• To forge stronger partnerships
• To develop effective monitoring and impact
  assessment tools
• To document good and bad practices

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ILO good practices

• Building partnerships - Youth Employment Network,
  etc
• Developed a framework at national level - Decent
  Work Country Programmes (DWCPs)
• Development of instruments and tools for youth
  employment
• Promotion of coherent and coordinated approaches
  at national level
• Prioritizing youth employment through the
  allocation of resources