Welcome to the Tackling Youth Employment Problems platform
The world is young: nearly 20% of its population is less than 25 years old.
The youth is, mostly, at work, but way too many, around 71 million of them, are without a job, and many others face serious decent work deficits.
Young people, statistics repeatedly show (see box below), are much more likely to be victim of these employment problems than adults (i.e. people above-25-years-old). Lack of work, decent work that is, inadequate schooling, health risks (HIV/AIDS among others), violence and crime are but a few of the problems that young people have to face.
Among the youth themselves, some groups require specific attention, such as women, ethnic minorities, rural communities, etc.
Neglecting to develop the youth leads to an increase in their vulnerability and to the undermining of a country’s productive potential with, eventually, serious political, economic and social consequences,
- In 2007, nearly 71 million young people were unemployed, accounting for 40 per cent of the 181 million unemployed globally.
- In 2007, they represented 25 percent of the world working age population.
- Youth account for about 20% of the world’s estimated 535 million working poor.
- Young people are over-represented in the informal economy. Approximately two-thirds of new jobs created in Latin America and South-East Asia during the period 1990-2002 were in the informal
economy. - Almost 52 million young people aged 15-17 were engaged in hazardous work in 2004.
source: Global Employment Trends for Youth, ILO, October 2008 |
The ITCILO has designed a training resource kit which provided the basis for important portfolio of courses that seek to provide pathways into addressing these problems. Course after course, workshop after workshop, one element is becoming increasingly clear: the main resource of these courses and workshops are the participants themselves.
This Tackling youth employment problems platform has been created to make the best use of this human capital and has three levels of action.
- provide pre-course information: people interested in joining youth employment related courses run by the ITC will find all useful and necessary information about upcoming courses
- act as distance learning tool: professionals and practitioners are making it clear: they appreciate having part of a course run at a distance to make best use of their time.
- follow up on participants action plan and networking.
Across these 3 points, the platform hopes to be a vehicle for the conviviality that each course generates. United through the unique common experience that the Turin Learning Approach crafts, ex-participants form a community of practice with long lasting binds. Even a few years after a course, people remain in contact, exchanging information about their work and news about themselves.
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