Academy on Youth Employment

Jointly organised by the ILO’s Employment Policy Department and the International Training Centre, the Academy delivered a comprehensive training package that integrates the core knowledge and skills for design and implementation of strategies and programmes aimed at tackling the multi-faceted dimensions of the youth employment challenge. OBECTIVES By combining insights from ILO experts, policymakers and practitioners, fostering debates, and sharing multi-country and multi-sectoral experiences, the Academy aimed to strengthen participants’ knowledge and skills to identify and co-create innovative solutions for the promotion of decent jobs for youth. More specifically, the Academy aimed to: • Foster better understanding of tools to diagnose the employment challenges faced by young people; • Identify viable entry points for mainstreaming youth employment into gender responsive employment policies and development frameworks; • Provide guidelines for the design and implementation of youth employment programmes; • Identify avenues to boost the participation of youth in social dialogue and tripartism as well as their voice, agency and representation; • Enhance knowledge on what works for youth employment in different contexts, spanning a range of demand-side and supply-side measures. CONTENT Through plenary sessions and elective thematic tracks, the Academy have covered a wide range of topics, including: 1. The youth employment challenge in a context of multiple crises 2. Youth, social dialogue and tripartism 3. Accelerating job creation for young people in wage and self-employment, through gender responsive employment policies 4. Youth employment opportunities in the digital, green and care economies 5. Fostering systemic change across labour market institutions and supporting the transition of young people to decent work 6. Youth employability, entrepreneurship and lifelong learning 7. Promoting the rights of young people