Youth Employment and Social Integration

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Youth Employment and Social Integration

• UN Expert Group Meeting on Policies to Advance
  Social Integration, NY, Nov. 2009

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Who we are

• YEN is a partnership of UN, ILO and World Bank
• As a network we focus on
• Policy advice on youth employment
• Innovative pilot programs
• Knowledge sharing
• Capacity building for youth organizations

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The Youth Employment Challenge

• 25 of the global working-age population are
  youth
• On average youth unemployment is three times
  higher than adult unemployment rates
• One in five working youth makes less than US 1

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Knowledge Gaps

• A framework for monitoring and evaluating youth
  employment policies is missing
• Lack of evidence on the impact and cost/benefit
  ratios of youth employment programs

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Key recommendations

• At the policy level, a bench marking of youth
  employment policies is needed
• At the program level, more rigorous impact
  assessments are needed

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• Contact information
• Markus Pilgrim
• pilgrim_at_ilo.org
• www.ilo.org/yen