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Promoting Social inclusion and combating povertyin the ENP Countries
Workshop : youth employability
Brussels, 3 December 2010
Hélène BourgadeHead of Unit
European Commission EuropeAid/E3
Social and human development and migration
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Youth and Social Inclusion: a priority!
• Youth unemployment – in particular women - is widespread and further increase after the financial crisis
• Persisting gaps in initial education and training systems force too many young people to leave school and remain unprepared for work and life
• Young people often work in the informal sector with low wages and unsafe working conditions
Youth education and employment: starting point for social inclusion through employability
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The ENP scenario
• Over 76 million young people (aged 15-24) live in the ENP countries
(including Russia), representing 19% of the region’s total population
• Youth unemployment rate on average more than 20%
• Quality of jobs often poor, with half of the employed in the informal
economy
• The highest youth unemployment rates in the Region: Armenia, OPT,
Egypt, Georgia and Tunisia.
Large part of the ENP young people continue remaining outside economic
and social life
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EC Instruments for Youth Employability
1)ENPI Bilateral/regional cooperation (directly/non directly targeting youth)
• Sector reforms (Education, VET)• Tempus and Erasmus Mundus (higher education), EuroMed
Youth (non formal eductaion)
2) Thematic Programmes (targeting youth)
• Investing in People• Non State Actors and Local Authorities (NSA-LA)• Migration & Asylum
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EC external approach for Youth Employability
(I)
• Recognition of youth needs and challenges
• Achieving basic education for all and promoting quality education
• Preventing and tackling child labour
• Supporting labour market-driven modernisation of vocational and in service training systems
• Tapping the potential of skills development in the informal economy
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EC external approach for Youth Employability
(II)
• Developing career guidance/counselling/employment services
• Promoting income-generating activities in ICT and culture
• Support retraining programmes in the context of industrial restructuring (textiles, transports, etc.)
• Supporting local development (women inclusion)
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EC external operational modalities
Paris declaration (2005), Accra common framework (2008) Ensuring programmes ownership, supporting home grown reforms
Backbone strategy (2008): enhancing use of home HR, reducing external project management units and TA expenses
Reducing stand alone projects and promoting sector supports as much as possible via budget supports
Sector dialogue – Holistic Approach
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EuropeAidBilateral ENP cooperation: some examples
2000-2010 (I)
• Promoting literacy (Morocco 17M€)
• Supporting basic education (Egypt 140M€, Algeria 14M€, Tunisia 30 M€, Lebanon
14M€)
• Supporting reforms of Higher Education (Algeria 21M€, Tunisia 45M€, Syria 20M€)
• Modernisation of VET systems (Morocco 88 M€, Algeria 30M€, Tunisia 85M€, Syria
21M€, Egypt 33M€, Jordan 35M€, OPT 4M€, Armenia 16M€, Georgia 19M€, Azerbaijan
2,6M€)
• Supporting Education needs of Iraqis refugees (Jordan 26.68M€)
Youth Employability Workshop
EuropeAidBilateral ENP cooperation: some examples
2000-2010 (II)
• Improvement of employability of young Palestinian refugees (Lebanon 4 M€)
• Promoting Employment/Placement services (Algeria 14M€)
• Employability (Tunisia 65M€ within Education/Training/Higher Education 2010)
• Supporting Local and Social Development (Egypt 20 M€, Lebanon 18M€, Algeria
50M€)
• Promoting Decent work and tackling child labour (Syria 2.5M€, Egypt 20M€)
• Supporting Social Protection (Syria 2.5, OPT 40M€, Moldova 20M€, Egypt 20 M€)
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Thematic programmes: some targeted projects for youth
• Migration and Asylum: “Strengthening the Moldova capacity to manage labour and
return migration within the framework of the mobility partnership” (3M€)
• Investing in people: multicountry and innovative projects in the calls for proposals
« Towards demand-driven Technical and Vocational Education and Training systems”
(2008; 5.8M €) and « TVET in informal economy »(2009; 17M€)
• NSA-LA: Youth employment resource centre in Azerbaijan (0.16 M€); Vocational and
business skillls in Abkhazia Georgia (0.28M€)
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How the EU external cooperation can contribute to youth employability? (I)
• Ensure that youth and youth inclusion issues are adequately covered in programming
• Engage a multi-sectoral “youth inclusion” policy dialogue (where appropiate) and develop multi sectoral youth programmes (when conditions are met) to foster youth as a cross-cutting issue in national development strategies
• Support the development and implementation of national action plan on youth employment as a way to establish an integrated and youth friendly concept of employment policy
EuropeAidHow the EU external cooperation can contribute to youth employability? (II)
• Encourage job creation through youth entrepreneurship
• Ensure complementarity between bilateral regional and thematic programmes
• Foster partnerships, dissemination of good practices of youth programmes