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View this email in your browser A renewed call by the international community for more efforts to improve the youth employment situation The Director General of the ILO joined the call of the Federal Chancellor of Germany and the Heads of International Organizations to support the global economic recovery and ensure growth. Mr Ryder 27 million young workers in Latin America and the Caribbean in the informal economy: An ILO forum for sharing experience on what works The ILO organized a mutual learning event in Lima, Peru with the objective of exchanging experience and good practice on what works on the transition of young workers to formal ILO at G20 Conference on Quality Apprenticeships The 2 nd G20OECD Conference on Promoting Quality Apprenticeships was held on 25 February 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. It was attended by the members of G20 Employment Working Group, representatives of B20 and L20. Ms Azita Berar Awad, Director of the Employment Policy Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate

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Page 1: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

View this email in your browser

A renewed call by theinternationalcommunity formore efforts toimprove the

youth employmentsituation

The Director General ofthe ILO joined the call of theFederal Chancellor ofGermany and the Heads ofInternational Organizationsto support the globaleconomic recovery andensure growth Mr Ryder

27 million youngworkers in LatinAmerica and theCaribbean in theinformal economy An ILO forum forsharing experienceon what works

The ILO organized a mutuallearning event in Lima Peruwith the objective ofexchanging experience andgood practice on what workson the transition of youngworkers to formal

ILO atG20 Conference on

QualityApprenticeships

The 2nd G20shyOECDConference on PromotingQuality Apprenticeships washeld on 25 February 2015 inAntalya Turkey It wasattended by the members ofG20 Employment WorkingGroup representatives of B20and L20 Ms Azita BerarAwad Director of theEmployment Policy

Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate

underlined jobs for youth as apriority for the internationalcommunity Read more gtgt

employment The eventinvolved representatives ofgovernments employerorganizations and tradeunions of several countries inthe region as well as expertsfrom other continents Readmore gtgt

Department highlighted theimportance of promotingquality apprenticeshipsinternships and other forms orlearning that are critical toacquire work experience byyoung people Click herefor ILOrsquos presentation

Global Research Symposium on LabourMarket Transitions of Young Women

and Men

The ILO organized a Global Research Symposiumon the theme of youth employment and labourmarket transitions The aim of the symposium wasto gather researchers and developmentpractitioners in the exchange of knowledge andresearch findings as well as in the identification offuture research areas on labour market transitionsof young people Read more gtgt

ILO and IFAD partner to build evidenceon gender in employment in the Middle

East and North Africa

The ILO and the International Fund for Agriculture

Development (IFAD) have partnered in the implementation of a new project on strengtheninggender monitoring and evaluation of ruralemployment programmes in the Middle East andNorth Africa This initiative builds on the wellshyestablished ILOs platform and community ofpractice known as ldquoTaqeemrdquo Read more gtgt

A new United Nations Joint Programmeon Youth Employment in Tanzania

The UN just launched a joint youth employmentprogramme that aims to support national institutionsof Tanzania in the implementation of an integratedstrategy The programme focuses on five highimpact priority areas that are key to the promotion ofdecent work for young people The implementationof the programme is led by the ILO with FAOUNIDO and UN Women joining forces for the UN todeliver as One Read more gtgt

Upgrading Informal ApprenticeshipSystem in Jordan

The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre forAccreditation and Quality Assurance in thedevelopment of a framework for skills testing andcertification The manual on skill testing that wasdeveloped through this partnership was launchedat a regional event on apprenticeships involvingdifferent countries from the Middle East and NorthAfrica that took place in Amman between 27 and 30March 2015 Read more gtgt

Labour Market Transitions of YoungWomen and Men in Eastern Europe and

Central Asia

The ILOrsquos Regional Conference on Labour MarketTransition of Young Women and Men in Eastern

Recent publications

Europe and Central Asia (Geneva 28 and 29 April2015) brought together representatives ofgovernments employer organizations and tradeunions from ten countries to discuss issues relatingto the schoolshytoshywork transition in the region and toshare experience on policy measures and effectiveprogrammes Read more gtgt

Youth employment peer reviews and

mutual learning eventamong CIS countries

A youth employment peer review and mutuallearning exercise was organized in theKrasnoyarsk (Russian Federation) between 20 and24 April 2015 This exercise discussed the findingsof the review of youth employment policies andprogrammes of Tajikistan It also exchangedknowledge and good practice on key youthemployment policy areas (eg macroshyeconomicpolicies incentives to recruit young workers labourmarket intermediation and career guidance) Thenetwork for regional cooperation on youthemployment that involves eight CIS countries issupported by the project ldquoPartnerships for YouthEmployment in the CISrdquo that is implemented by theILO in partnership with Russian oil companyLUKOIL Read more gtgt

Policy Lab on youth employment in

Egypt

On 30 April 2015 the ILO conducted a policylaboratory in Egypt with participation of policymakers youth serving organizations researchersacademics and private sector representatives TheTaqeem Policy Lab was organized in theframework of the Taqeem Fund for Evaluation inYouth Employment a technical cooperation projectof the ILO that aims to improve labour marketoutcomes of young people in the Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA) by strengthening evidenceshybased programming and policyshymaking Read moregtgt ILOrsquos video on youth employment winsthe 2015 Animation IntermediashyGlobe

Silver Award of the 16thWorldMediaFestival

At work but earning less Trends indecent pay and minimum wages foryoung people Jobs and Skills for Youth Review ofPolicies for Youth Employment ofIndonesia Comparative Analysis of Policies forYouth Employment in Asia and thePacific Final Report TrainshytheshytrainerProgramme Monitoring performanceand assessing impact of the Portugueseyouth guarantee Youth and rural development Evidencefrom 25 schoolshytoshywork transition surveys

Evaluating Youth EmploymentProgrammes An Executive Course 22shy26 June Turin Italy Decent work for young people (pilotcourse) 29 June shy 10 July TurinItaly httpitciloorgBoosting Youth Employment throughPublic Works An ILO what works inYouth Employment Knowledge SharingEvent 29shy30 June Addis AbabaEthiopiaSchool to work transition data analysisfor evidenceshybased policy 6shy10 July(tentative date) Turin Italy httpitciloorgMutual learning event what works on

The ILOrsquos animation video Youth EmploymentCrisis A Call for Action developed with MTV wonthe 2015 Globe Silver in the animation categoryduring the 16th WorldMediaFestival presented inHamburg on May 6 This Festival is aninternational forum for leading communicationsprofessionals from around the world and is the onlyforum of its kind in Europe It was established in theyear 2000 and is dedicated to recognize excellencein Corporate Film Television Web and Printproductions Read more gtgt

Pharrell Williams calls for action onclimate change and decent jobs ILO

(Video)

Multishyaward winning musician Pharrell Williams hascalled on the international community to tackle thedual challenges of climate change and youthunemployment In a video address to the ILOsWorld of Work Summit that this year focuses onclimate change ahead of the UN Conference onthe issue in Paris this December (COP21) Williamssaid Wersquove also got another serious problem onour hands millions of young people who donrsquot havejobs and donrsquot have access to the education andskills they need to get them Read moregtgt

HighshyLevel Event on the DemographicDividend and Youth Employment

On 1 June 2015 the President of the GeneralAssembly convened a HighshyLevel Event on theDemographic Dividend and Youth Employment incollaboration with the International LabourOrganization (ILO) and the United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA) This event broughttogether numerous Ministers and representativesfrom other stakeholders to discuss challenges bestpractices and possible solutions with regard toharnessing the demographic dividend andpromoting decent employment opportunities foryoung people Read moregtgt 2015 World Report on Child LabourPaving the way to decent work for

green jobs for youth 14shy16 OctoberBeijing China wwwiloorgasia

young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

Page 2: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

underlined jobs for youth as apriority for the internationalcommunity Read more gtgt

employment The eventinvolved representatives ofgovernments employerorganizations and tradeunions of several countries inthe region as well as expertsfrom other continents Readmore gtgt

Department highlighted theimportance of promotingquality apprenticeshipsinternships and other forms orlearning that are critical toacquire work experience byyoung people Click herefor ILOrsquos presentation

Global Research Symposium on LabourMarket Transitions of Young Women

and Men

The ILO organized a Global Research Symposiumon the theme of youth employment and labourmarket transitions The aim of the symposium wasto gather researchers and developmentpractitioners in the exchange of knowledge andresearch findings as well as in the identification offuture research areas on labour market transitionsof young people Read more gtgt

ILO and IFAD partner to build evidenceon gender in employment in the Middle

East and North Africa

The ILO and the International Fund for Agriculture

Development (IFAD) have partnered in the implementation of a new project on strengtheninggender monitoring and evaluation of ruralemployment programmes in the Middle East andNorth Africa This initiative builds on the wellshyestablished ILOs platform and community ofpractice known as ldquoTaqeemrdquo Read more gtgt

A new United Nations Joint Programmeon Youth Employment in Tanzania

The UN just launched a joint youth employmentprogramme that aims to support national institutionsof Tanzania in the implementation of an integratedstrategy The programme focuses on five highimpact priority areas that are key to the promotion ofdecent work for young people The implementationof the programme is led by the ILO with FAOUNIDO and UN Women joining forces for the UN todeliver as One Read more gtgt

Upgrading Informal ApprenticeshipSystem in Jordan

The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre forAccreditation and Quality Assurance in thedevelopment of a framework for skills testing andcertification The manual on skill testing that wasdeveloped through this partnership was launchedat a regional event on apprenticeships involvingdifferent countries from the Middle East and NorthAfrica that took place in Amman between 27 and 30March 2015 Read more gtgt

Labour Market Transitions of YoungWomen and Men in Eastern Europe and

Central Asia

The ILOrsquos Regional Conference on Labour MarketTransition of Young Women and Men in Eastern

Recent publications

Europe and Central Asia (Geneva 28 and 29 April2015) brought together representatives ofgovernments employer organizations and tradeunions from ten countries to discuss issues relatingto the schoolshytoshywork transition in the region and toshare experience on policy measures and effectiveprogrammes Read more gtgt

Youth employment peer reviews and

mutual learning eventamong CIS countries

A youth employment peer review and mutuallearning exercise was organized in theKrasnoyarsk (Russian Federation) between 20 and24 April 2015 This exercise discussed the findingsof the review of youth employment policies andprogrammes of Tajikistan It also exchangedknowledge and good practice on key youthemployment policy areas (eg macroshyeconomicpolicies incentives to recruit young workers labourmarket intermediation and career guidance) Thenetwork for regional cooperation on youthemployment that involves eight CIS countries issupported by the project ldquoPartnerships for YouthEmployment in the CISrdquo that is implemented by theILO in partnership with Russian oil companyLUKOIL Read more gtgt

Policy Lab on youth employment in

Egypt

On 30 April 2015 the ILO conducted a policylaboratory in Egypt with participation of policymakers youth serving organizations researchersacademics and private sector representatives TheTaqeem Policy Lab was organized in theframework of the Taqeem Fund for Evaluation inYouth Employment a technical cooperation projectof the ILO that aims to improve labour marketoutcomes of young people in the Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA) by strengthening evidenceshybased programming and policyshymaking Read moregtgt ILOrsquos video on youth employment winsthe 2015 Animation IntermediashyGlobe

Silver Award of the 16thWorldMediaFestival

At work but earning less Trends indecent pay and minimum wages foryoung people Jobs and Skills for Youth Review ofPolicies for Youth Employment ofIndonesia Comparative Analysis of Policies forYouth Employment in Asia and thePacific Final Report TrainshytheshytrainerProgramme Monitoring performanceand assessing impact of the Portugueseyouth guarantee Youth and rural development Evidencefrom 25 schoolshytoshywork transition surveys

Evaluating Youth EmploymentProgrammes An Executive Course 22shy26 June Turin Italy Decent work for young people (pilotcourse) 29 June shy 10 July TurinItaly httpitciloorgBoosting Youth Employment throughPublic Works An ILO what works inYouth Employment Knowledge SharingEvent 29shy30 June Addis AbabaEthiopiaSchool to work transition data analysisfor evidenceshybased policy 6shy10 July(tentative date) Turin Italy httpitciloorgMutual learning event what works on

The ILOrsquos animation video Youth EmploymentCrisis A Call for Action developed with MTV wonthe 2015 Globe Silver in the animation categoryduring the 16th WorldMediaFestival presented inHamburg on May 6 This Festival is aninternational forum for leading communicationsprofessionals from around the world and is the onlyforum of its kind in Europe It was established in theyear 2000 and is dedicated to recognize excellencein Corporate Film Television Web and Printproductions Read more gtgt

Pharrell Williams calls for action onclimate change and decent jobs ILO

(Video)

Multishyaward winning musician Pharrell Williams hascalled on the international community to tackle thedual challenges of climate change and youthunemployment In a video address to the ILOsWorld of Work Summit that this year focuses onclimate change ahead of the UN Conference onthe issue in Paris this December (COP21) Williamssaid Wersquove also got another serious problem onour hands millions of young people who donrsquot havejobs and donrsquot have access to the education andskills they need to get them Read moregtgt

HighshyLevel Event on the DemographicDividend and Youth Employment

On 1 June 2015 the President of the GeneralAssembly convened a HighshyLevel Event on theDemographic Dividend and Youth Employment incollaboration with the International LabourOrganization (ILO) and the United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA) This event broughttogether numerous Ministers and representativesfrom other stakeholders to discuss challenges bestpractices and possible solutions with regard toharnessing the demographic dividend andpromoting decent employment opportunities foryoung people Read moregtgt 2015 World Report on Child LabourPaving the way to decent work for

green jobs for youth 14shy16 OctoberBeijing China wwwiloorgasia

young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

Page 3: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

Development (IFAD) have partnered in the implementation of a new project on strengtheninggender monitoring and evaluation of ruralemployment programmes in the Middle East andNorth Africa This initiative builds on the wellshyestablished ILOs platform and community ofpractice known as ldquoTaqeemrdquo Read more gtgt

A new United Nations Joint Programmeon Youth Employment in Tanzania

The UN just launched a joint youth employmentprogramme that aims to support national institutionsof Tanzania in the implementation of an integratedstrategy The programme focuses on five highimpact priority areas that are key to the promotion ofdecent work for young people The implementationof the programme is led by the ILO with FAOUNIDO and UN Women joining forces for the UN todeliver as One Read more gtgt

Upgrading Informal ApprenticeshipSystem in Jordan

The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre forAccreditation and Quality Assurance in thedevelopment of a framework for skills testing andcertification The manual on skill testing that wasdeveloped through this partnership was launchedat a regional event on apprenticeships involvingdifferent countries from the Middle East and NorthAfrica that took place in Amman between 27 and 30March 2015 Read more gtgt

Labour Market Transitions of YoungWomen and Men in Eastern Europe and

Central Asia

The ILOrsquos Regional Conference on Labour MarketTransition of Young Women and Men in Eastern

Recent publications

Europe and Central Asia (Geneva 28 and 29 April2015) brought together representatives ofgovernments employer organizations and tradeunions from ten countries to discuss issues relatingto the schoolshytoshywork transition in the region and toshare experience on policy measures and effectiveprogrammes Read more gtgt

Youth employment peer reviews and

mutual learning eventamong CIS countries

A youth employment peer review and mutuallearning exercise was organized in theKrasnoyarsk (Russian Federation) between 20 and24 April 2015 This exercise discussed the findingsof the review of youth employment policies andprogrammes of Tajikistan It also exchangedknowledge and good practice on key youthemployment policy areas (eg macroshyeconomicpolicies incentives to recruit young workers labourmarket intermediation and career guidance) Thenetwork for regional cooperation on youthemployment that involves eight CIS countries issupported by the project ldquoPartnerships for YouthEmployment in the CISrdquo that is implemented by theILO in partnership with Russian oil companyLUKOIL Read more gtgt

Policy Lab on youth employment in

Egypt

On 30 April 2015 the ILO conducted a policylaboratory in Egypt with participation of policymakers youth serving organizations researchersacademics and private sector representatives TheTaqeem Policy Lab was organized in theframework of the Taqeem Fund for Evaluation inYouth Employment a technical cooperation projectof the ILO that aims to improve labour marketoutcomes of young people in the Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA) by strengthening evidenceshybased programming and policyshymaking Read moregtgt ILOrsquos video on youth employment winsthe 2015 Animation IntermediashyGlobe

Silver Award of the 16thWorldMediaFestival

At work but earning less Trends indecent pay and minimum wages foryoung people Jobs and Skills for Youth Review ofPolicies for Youth Employment ofIndonesia Comparative Analysis of Policies forYouth Employment in Asia and thePacific Final Report TrainshytheshytrainerProgramme Monitoring performanceand assessing impact of the Portugueseyouth guarantee Youth and rural development Evidencefrom 25 schoolshytoshywork transition surveys

Evaluating Youth EmploymentProgrammes An Executive Course 22shy26 June Turin Italy Decent work for young people (pilotcourse) 29 June shy 10 July TurinItaly httpitciloorgBoosting Youth Employment throughPublic Works An ILO what works inYouth Employment Knowledge SharingEvent 29shy30 June Addis AbabaEthiopiaSchool to work transition data analysisfor evidenceshybased policy 6shy10 July(tentative date) Turin Italy httpitciloorgMutual learning event what works on

The ILOrsquos animation video Youth EmploymentCrisis A Call for Action developed with MTV wonthe 2015 Globe Silver in the animation categoryduring the 16th WorldMediaFestival presented inHamburg on May 6 This Festival is aninternational forum for leading communicationsprofessionals from around the world and is the onlyforum of its kind in Europe It was established in theyear 2000 and is dedicated to recognize excellencein Corporate Film Television Web and Printproductions Read more gtgt

Pharrell Williams calls for action onclimate change and decent jobs ILO

(Video)

Multishyaward winning musician Pharrell Williams hascalled on the international community to tackle thedual challenges of climate change and youthunemployment In a video address to the ILOsWorld of Work Summit that this year focuses onclimate change ahead of the UN Conference onthe issue in Paris this December (COP21) Williamssaid Wersquove also got another serious problem onour hands millions of young people who donrsquot havejobs and donrsquot have access to the education andskills they need to get them Read moregtgt

HighshyLevel Event on the DemographicDividend and Youth Employment

On 1 June 2015 the President of the GeneralAssembly convened a HighshyLevel Event on theDemographic Dividend and Youth Employment incollaboration with the International LabourOrganization (ILO) and the United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA) This event broughttogether numerous Ministers and representativesfrom other stakeholders to discuss challenges bestpractices and possible solutions with regard toharnessing the demographic dividend andpromoting decent employment opportunities foryoung people Read moregtgt 2015 World Report on Child LabourPaving the way to decent work for

green jobs for youth 14shy16 OctoberBeijing China wwwiloorgasia

young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

Page 4: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

Europe and Central Asia (Geneva 28 and 29 April2015) brought together representatives ofgovernments employer organizations and tradeunions from ten countries to discuss issues relatingto the schoolshytoshywork transition in the region and toshare experience on policy measures and effectiveprogrammes Read more gtgt

Youth employment peer reviews and

mutual learning eventamong CIS countries

A youth employment peer review and mutuallearning exercise was organized in theKrasnoyarsk (Russian Federation) between 20 and24 April 2015 This exercise discussed the findingsof the review of youth employment policies andprogrammes of Tajikistan It also exchangedknowledge and good practice on key youthemployment policy areas (eg macroshyeconomicpolicies incentives to recruit young workers labourmarket intermediation and career guidance) Thenetwork for regional cooperation on youthemployment that involves eight CIS countries issupported by the project ldquoPartnerships for YouthEmployment in the CISrdquo that is implemented by theILO in partnership with Russian oil companyLUKOIL Read more gtgt

Policy Lab on youth employment in

Egypt

On 30 April 2015 the ILO conducted a policylaboratory in Egypt with participation of policymakers youth serving organizations researchersacademics and private sector representatives TheTaqeem Policy Lab was organized in theframework of the Taqeem Fund for Evaluation inYouth Employment a technical cooperation projectof the ILO that aims to improve labour marketoutcomes of young people in the Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA) by strengthening evidenceshybased programming and policyshymaking Read moregtgt ILOrsquos video on youth employment winsthe 2015 Animation IntermediashyGlobe

Silver Award of the 16thWorldMediaFestival

At work but earning less Trends indecent pay and minimum wages foryoung people Jobs and Skills for Youth Review ofPolicies for Youth Employment ofIndonesia Comparative Analysis of Policies forYouth Employment in Asia and thePacific Final Report TrainshytheshytrainerProgramme Monitoring performanceand assessing impact of the Portugueseyouth guarantee Youth and rural development Evidencefrom 25 schoolshytoshywork transition surveys

Evaluating Youth EmploymentProgrammes An Executive Course 22shy26 June Turin Italy Decent work for young people (pilotcourse) 29 June shy 10 July TurinItaly httpitciloorgBoosting Youth Employment throughPublic Works An ILO what works inYouth Employment Knowledge SharingEvent 29shy30 June Addis AbabaEthiopiaSchool to work transition data analysisfor evidenceshybased policy 6shy10 July(tentative date) Turin Italy httpitciloorgMutual learning event what works on

The ILOrsquos animation video Youth EmploymentCrisis A Call for Action developed with MTV wonthe 2015 Globe Silver in the animation categoryduring the 16th WorldMediaFestival presented inHamburg on May 6 This Festival is aninternational forum for leading communicationsprofessionals from around the world and is the onlyforum of its kind in Europe It was established in theyear 2000 and is dedicated to recognize excellencein Corporate Film Television Web and Printproductions Read more gtgt

Pharrell Williams calls for action onclimate change and decent jobs ILO

(Video)

Multishyaward winning musician Pharrell Williams hascalled on the international community to tackle thedual challenges of climate change and youthunemployment In a video address to the ILOsWorld of Work Summit that this year focuses onclimate change ahead of the UN Conference onthe issue in Paris this December (COP21) Williamssaid Wersquove also got another serious problem onour hands millions of young people who donrsquot havejobs and donrsquot have access to the education andskills they need to get them Read moregtgt

HighshyLevel Event on the DemographicDividend and Youth Employment

On 1 June 2015 the President of the GeneralAssembly convened a HighshyLevel Event on theDemographic Dividend and Youth Employment incollaboration with the International LabourOrganization (ILO) and the United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA) This event broughttogether numerous Ministers and representativesfrom other stakeholders to discuss challenges bestpractices and possible solutions with regard toharnessing the demographic dividend andpromoting decent employment opportunities foryoung people Read moregtgt 2015 World Report on Child LabourPaving the way to decent work for

green jobs for youth 14shy16 OctoberBeijing China wwwiloorgasia

young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

Page 5: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

The ILOrsquos animation video Youth EmploymentCrisis A Call for Action developed with MTV wonthe 2015 Globe Silver in the animation categoryduring the 16th WorldMediaFestival presented inHamburg on May 6 This Festival is aninternational forum for leading communicationsprofessionals from around the world and is the onlyforum of its kind in Europe It was established in theyear 2000 and is dedicated to recognize excellencein Corporate Film Television Web and Printproductions Read more gtgt

Pharrell Williams calls for action onclimate change and decent jobs ILO

(Video)

Multishyaward winning musician Pharrell Williams hascalled on the international community to tackle thedual challenges of climate change and youthunemployment In a video address to the ILOsWorld of Work Summit that this year focuses onclimate change ahead of the UN Conference onthe issue in Paris this December (COP21) Williamssaid Wersquove also got another serious problem onour hands millions of young people who donrsquot havejobs and donrsquot have access to the education andskills they need to get them Read moregtgt

HighshyLevel Event on the DemographicDividend and Youth Employment

On 1 June 2015 the President of the GeneralAssembly convened a HighshyLevel Event on theDemographic Dividend and Youth Employment incollaboration with the International LabourOrganization (ILO) and the United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA) This event broughttogether numerous Ministers and representativesfrom other stakeholders to discuss challenges bestpractices and possible solutions with regard toharnessing the demographic dividend andpromoting decent employment opportunities foryoung people Read moregtgt 2015 World Report on Child LabourPaving the way to decent work for

green jobs for youth 14shy16 OctoberBeijing China wwwiloorgasia

young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

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Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

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young people

The 2015 World Report on Child Labour presentsempirical evidence of how child labour combinedwith limited education can lead to increased youthvulnerability and greater difficulties in the transitionto decent work The report pays particularlyattention to young people aged between 15 and 17who are engaged in hazardous occupations andother worst forms of child labour and analyses theirtransition paths on the basis of the data collectedthrough the ILO schoolshytoshywork transition surveysfrom 28 lowshy and middleshyincome countries It is theresultant of joint work by the ILOs Programmes onthe Elimination of Child Labour and on YouthEmployment Read moregtgt The ILO participated in the PilotingYouth Guarantee on the groundExperiences from the European

Parliament preparatory action (EPPA)

The European Commission (EC) organized aconference involving the 28 countries of theEuropean Union and international organizationsto disseminate the results and lessons from thepiloting of local and regional partnerships under theEuropean Parliament Preparatory Action (EPPA) onthe Youth Guarantee The conference took place inBrussels (Belgium) on 8 May 2015 and followed theannual meeting of the 28 national Youth GuaranteeCoordinators In the context of the ECshyILO onshygoing partnership on youth employment policy theEmployment Policy Department shared someevaluation findings on active labour market policiesthat work for young people Read moregtgt

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

Page 7: Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate...System in Jordan The ILO supported the Jordanian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in the development of a framework for skills

Mobile appRightswork4youth

A guide to labour rights at young peoples fingertips

As part of its work to promote rights at work and raise young peoples awareness includingthrough the use of new technology and social media the ILO developed a mobile App thatallows young people to access information on international labour standards test theirknowledge of rights at work and review case studies The app is based on the ILO guideRightsWork for Youth Decent work for young people Get the app (only in French) byclicking here

What About Young People ILOYouth Youth employment programme Email

This newsletter is produced by the ILOrsquos Programme on Youth Employment For official ILO statementsspeeches and press releases please visit our Resources for journalists page

Copyright copy 2015 ILO All rights reserved

Editors Gianni Rosas and Sergio Iriarte Quezada

Our mailing address isyouthiloorg

unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences