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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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International and EU external Policy Framework

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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€)

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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

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Helene BourgadeEuropean Commission - EuropeAid