SecretaryGenerals Youth Employment Network

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The Secretary-Generals Youth Employment Network

• Background to the Youth Employment Network
• Policy orientations which underpin the Network
• Contact information

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Background information on YEN

• What do you know about the YEN?

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Secretary-Generals Youth Employment Network

• A commitment of the Millennium Declaration
  Develop and implement strategies that give young
  people everywhere a real chance to find decent
  and productive work
• A global alliance led by the heads of the UN, the
  World Bank and the ILO
• Requested the ILO to take the lead in organizing
  the future work of the YEN and to host a
  permanent Secretariat

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The High-Level Panel

• The Secretary-General
• Appointed a High-Level Panel in 2000 and asked
  them to draw up recommendations by 2001.
• Invited the panel to continue working in an
  advisory capacity as a standing panel

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Objectives of YEN

• To formulate a set of recommendations on youth
  employment
• To disseminate information on good practice and
  lessons learned
• To identify, for implementation with its
  partners, collaborative youth employment
  initiatives.

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The YEN Partners

• The Network Involves a number of partners and
  collaborating agencies including the ILOs social
  partners, non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  and youth groups.

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The 3 elements of the Panels 2001 Recommendations

• Puts forward the importance of youth
• Youth are an Asset - not a Problem
• Youth are partners of today - not tomorrow

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Panels 2001 Recommendations

• 2. Presents a political process
• National reviews and action plans
• ILO to prepare a global review and evaluation of
  action plans
• Suggests Youth as integrated concept of
  employment policies
• Lead countries to take the initiative

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Lead Countries are committed to

• YEN has prepared a guidance note for lead
  countries
• Political commitment at the highest political
  level to decent and productive work for young
  people
• Prepare a national review and action plan on
  youth employment

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Lead Countries

• Contribute to international development
  cooperation in sharing national experience with
  other countries and with the international
  community
• Nine countries have stepped forward to volunteer
  as lead countries for the YEN
• -Azerbaijan, -Brazil,
• -Egypt, -Hungary,
• -Indonesia, -Iran,
• -Namibia, -Senegal,
• -Sri Lanka.

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Panels 2001 Recommendations

• 3. Four global priorities for action plans
• Employability invest in education and vocational
  training
• Equal opportunities give young women the same
  opportunities as young men
• Entrepreneurship make it easier to start and run
  enterprises
• Employment creation place employment at the
  center of macroeconomic policy.

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Panels 2001 Recommendations

• Cross-cutting issues are
• Youth empowerment through organisation of young
  workers and entrepreneurs
• HIV/AIDS and youth
• Youth and conflict

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UN Resolutions on Promoting Youth Employment (Dec
2002) and Policies and Programmes for Youth (Jan
2004)

• Takes on board the political process recommended
  by the High-Level Panel
• Encourages to develop national reviews and action
  plans and to involve youth and youth
  organizations in the process
• Invites the Youth Employment Network under ILO
  leadership to carry out global analysis and
  review ILC 2005 and Global Employment Report
  2005

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Working Groups

• In 2002 the High-Level Panel set up working
  groups on each of the four Es.
• Provide policy advice on the four priority areas.
  
• Provide guidance for national action plans
• Support the implementation of policies,
  programmes and projects on youth employment
  undertaken by the broader Network's partners

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2nd meeting of the High Level Panel, June 2003
Our challenge now is to move from the excellent
policy work that has been done to a new phase of
action at the country level. UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
The youth around this table are a tremendous
resource. Young people are not just leaders for
tomorrow, they are partners for today. Engage
them. Listen. Build together. Let's get beyond
lip service. ILO Director General Juan Somavia
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Panels 2003Recommendations
1. Endorse the outcomes of the Panels 4 Working
Groups

• The Working Group on Employability
• Government responsibility
• Investment in education and training
• Access to basic education
• School-to-work transition
• Relevance to labour market needs
• Lifelong learning
• Involving social partners

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Panels 2003Recommendations

• The Working Group on Entrepreneurship
• Cultural attitudes
• Regulations
• Education/training
• Finance
• Business Support

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Panels 2003Recommendations

• The Working Group on Equal opportunities
• Set specific objectives and targets to rectify
  gender disparities
• End stereotyping in education and training
• Recognize the constraints placed on young
  womens
• productive roles by their reproductive
  responsibilities
• Focus both on equal opportunities and equal
  treatment
• Recognize the value of womens entrepreneurship
• Sexual violence

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Panels 2003Recommendations

• The Working Group on Employment creation
• Employment as an overall objective of economic
  policy
• Financial stability to promote employment
• Open markets for developing countries

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Panels 2003Recommendations

• 2. Encourage governments to translate the
  recommendations into national action plans.
• 3. Establish social dialogue for youth
  employment.
• 4. Invite youth organisations to play an active
  role in the Network
• 5. Mobilize resources for youth employment in
  committed countries

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Next steps for the Youth Employment Network

• Strengthening the role of Youth
• National actions plans to be included in national
  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).
• The role of the High Level Panel in MDG-process

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Contact details YEN Secretariat
The Youth Employment Network Website
http//www.ilo.org/yen Secretary for the Youth
Employment Network Steven Miller miller_at_ilo.org
Senior Policy Advisor on Youth Employment
Regina Monticone monticone_at_ilo.org
Communication and Public Information Officer
Justin Sykes sykes_at_ilo.org
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Contact details ILO - YEN

• ILO Geneva
• Mr. Takafumi Ueda
• Technical Coordinator on Youth Employment
• The ILO Youth Employment Task Team (YETT) YENs
  Focal Point
• ueda_at_ilo.org
• ILO Sub regional Office for East Asia
• Ms. Elizabeth Morris
• Senior Labour Market and Human Resources Policies
  Specialist
• morrise_at_ilo.org
• Ms. Sara Spant
• Associate Expert on Employment Promotion
• Youth Employment Focal Point within ILO
  Subregional Office East Asia
• Spant_at_ilo.org