Youth employment resources

  1. Improving delivery of entrepreneurship training to disadvantaged youth

    12 July 2012

    Trainers of ILO’s entrepreneurship programme, Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB), shared their experiences in training disadvantaged youth in Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur, during the Refresher Workshop for Master Trainers and Trainers of SIYB in May 2012.

  2. Skills to support Local Economic Development (SKILLED) - EU Support to Reconstruction and Development in Selected Districts in Sri Lanka (EU-SDDP). (UN Joint Programme)

    01 July 2012

    European Union Support to District Development Programme (EU-SDDP) Project has aimed at “to ccontribute to and capacitate the transition from post-conflict relief to reconstruction and development by supporting selected districts in North and East as focus districts in line with respective local development plans under the Ministry of Economic Development”.

  3. Technical vocational training in Masbate: Keeping the dream alive for Masbate’s disadvantaged youth

    01 July 2012

    Perhaps the greatest frustration of being a youth growing up in disadvantaged circumstances is aspiring for a career and being shot down even before one has been given the opportunity to take off.

  4. Assessment of entrepreneurship potentials of disadvantaged youth in Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur

    29 June 2012

    Entrepreneurship is one option that is on top of everybody’s list when it comes to recommendations for stimulating employment in an otherwise job-starved environment. In four provinces highlighted in the study, youth entrepreneurship is still a frontier’s land and this is very much evident when describing the situation of disadvantaged youth.

  5. APYouthNet Community Update #10, June 2012

    29 June 2012

    Provides an overview of the latest developments in the community and the world of youth employment in Asia-Pacific. This edition includes: the paper from the online discussion on "Apprenticeships in Asia-Pacific", a 'postcard' from Mongolia and new from the International Youth Day 2012.

  6. BBC interview with Matthieu Cognac, ILO Youth Employment Specialist

    10 June 2012

    Why youth employment is such a problem in Asia? Which particular area of the region is the biggest concentration of the youth employment? What policies and recommendations can the ILO suggest to the government?

  7. APYouthNet Talk Show #7 - Apprenticeships in Asia and the Pacific

    01 June 2012

    This programme is all about apprenticeships and related best practices in our region. The show features views and experiences from apprentices from Australia and Germany, a policy maker from Indonesia and a young trade unionist from Pakistan.

  8. The Solomon Islands Human Security project

    01 May 2012

    The goal of the initiative is to enhance human security for the selected communities and ex-combatants in the Solomon Islands by reducing tensions and promoting peaceful and sustainable measures for their survival and dignity.

  9. APYouthNet Talk Show #5 - Youth labour migration

    01 April 2012

    Listen to Zar Ni, a young migrant from Burma, Max Tunon, ILO Sr Programme Officer for labour migration, and Matthieu Cognac, ILO specialist on youth employment, discussing with young people the issue of youth and labour migration in Asia and the Pacific. This podcast is a co-production between APYouthNet and AP-MagNet.

  10. APYouthNet Community Update #9, March 2012

    14 March 2012

    Provides an overview of the latest developments in the community and the world of youth employment in Asia-Pacific. This edition includes: Youth employment at the International Labour Conference and the Month of Youth Employment, Postcard from Timor-Leste and APYouthNet Podcast #4.