Promotion of Youth Employment in Fragile Settings

The course provides 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. The course is highly practical, as participants are guided by tutors in applying what they have learned to their specific contexts to enable youth to secure livelihoods and employment. OBJECTIVES • 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 TOPICS • 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