PROMOTION OF YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN FRAGILE SETTINGS

The course provided participants with a range of integrated approaches, tools and methodologies that can be used to promote youth employment and decent work in fragile situations including health pandemics, armed conflict, natural disasters, rapid environmental degradation and forced displacement of persons. OBJECTIVES By gaining knowledge on a wide array of notions, methods and tools to promote decent work and youth employment in situations of fragility in the context of COVID-19, participants are able to: • Reflect on current good practices and experiences on the labour market integration of youth in fragile settings • Comprehend the labour market challenges and opportunities to foster youth employment in fragile settings • Envision feasible and sustainable strategies to promote youth employment in fragile settings • Engage in potential partnerships and south-south collaborations to promote youth employment in fragile settings. CONTENT • Understanding fragility • ILO’s normative and operational response for building peace and resilience through employment and decent work: Recommendation 205 on Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience • ILO’s theory of change to promote peace and resilience though employment • Tools and methodologies to promote employment and decent work approached for crisis prevention and response • Promotion of youth employment in action.