Employment promotion with an emphasis on youth employment

As noted in the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015, “it is still not easy to be young in today’s labour market”. Youth employment remains a top priority concern in most countries across all regions, and the ILO is increasingly requested to provide support services in this area. Against this background, the ILO/Sida Partnership Programme 2016-2017 will assist countries to develop and implement integrated employment policies and programmes conducive to the promotion and creation of youth employment. The Programme will comprise a global component and a number of selected country initiatives. The Programme has two components, namely: (i) Global Product; and (ii) Country-level initiatives. The Global product is meant as a service platform to serve country-level interventions. It will make available expertise, information and working/training tools to be conveniently adapted and used for country-level work. On the other hand, country activities will feed into the global products’ development and field test “what works for youth employment”; lessons learned will inform and improve the broad range of ILO’s technical assistance and tools on youth employment issues to be shared worldwide. At the global and country levels, the Programme will endeavour to identify and exploit operational links with other relevant actors and initiatives, in view of broadening its youth employment outcomes.

Project symbol

GLO/16/50/SWE

Admin unit

EMPLAB

Start date

01/01/2016

End date

31/03/2018

Total allocation

519210

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

519210

Development Partners

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects