youth engagement strategy (yes) issues, challenges and opportunities
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Youth Engagement Strategy (YES) Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. Yasin Janjua Centre for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development (CPRSPD). Background. Demographic Dividend Almost 35% in the age range of 15-24 years 63% of the population below 25 years Growing concerns about - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
YASIN JANJUACENTRE FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL
POLICY DEVELOPMENT (CPRSPD)
Youth Engagement Strategy (YES)
Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Background
Demographic Dividend Almost 35% in the age range of 15-24 years 63% of the population below 25 years
Growing concerns about Radicalization Joining extremist terror networks Aggression and Violence Lack of Citizenship among Pakistani Youth
Pakistani Youth: Issues and ChallengesPakistani Youth: Issues and Challenges
Leveraging from Risk to StrengthLeveraging from Risk to Strength
Economic Slowdown Lack of employment
opportunitiesYouth demographic bulgeLow literacy among youthNo life or vocational skillsNo career counselingLack of citizenshipEconomy and Youth at
Risk
Youth TrajectoriesIt’s my life
(harnessing potential) Opening Windows of
Opportunities Facilitating Youth
Entrepreneurship
Youth Engagement Strategy
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Youth and Pakistan’s Economy
Demographic DividendDemographic Dividend Shriveled EconomyShriveled Economy
Issues
Growth Rate Declined From 5% on average to less than 2% in 2010 Slowdown in employment growth Poor perception of global investor Terrorism /Bad investment climate Low tax to GDP ratio Declining exports and FDI Increasing debt burden
Global Economic Shocks
Issues
Education - NER 57%13-15% completes secondary education1% of total labor force has technical skillsYouth entrants in labor force
With no education No skills
Missing Facilities / MarketsSocial and Economic justiceEconomy lacks capacity to absorb
Challenges
Large Informal SectorFormal Sector shrinking
27.2% in 2007-08 to 26.7% in 2008-09 Outmoded job market entry mechanism
Informal training under ‘Ustad Shagird’ arrangement Immersion in family Businesses Formal training in vocational and technical training
institutes and short-term programs On-Job-Training(OJT) Formal apprenticeship
Socio – Cultural Influences on job marketNo Career counseling mechanisms
Pathways to skill acquisition and job market
Illiterate
Literate
School dropouts
Pool of prospective trainees for informal skill acquisitions and job market
Family Business in Informal and Formal Sectors
Apprenticeship
(Ustad-Shagird) in Informal and Formal sectors
Through Family
Through Family and Acquaintances
Through Friends and Peers
Through Mentors / Local Influentials
On-the-job Training
On Competitive Basis through open recruitment process
Public and Private Sector
Economy and Youth at Risk
Increasing youth dependency Lower economic growthYouth share in employment 40.9%Youth Contribution to GDP 18-28% (Avg 23%)Increasing unemploymentResults
Redundancy of skills Lower future wages Poverty Vulnerability Aggression and violence Lower prospects of well being
Immediate need to tackle these issues, otherwise
Cluelessness and Helplessness
ENGAGING YOUTHUNLOCKING THEIR POTENTIAL
Leveraging from Risk to Strength
Objectives
Understanding needsProvision of community infrastructure for
youthEducation and SkillsEconomic OpportunitiesGlobalized & Socialized Youth
Understanding Youth Trajectories
Trajectory of learning and life skill development
Trajectory of transitioning form learning to work
Trajectories of citizenship and responsibilities
Trajectories of financial independence and autonomy in relation to ones family and married life
Its My Life
Source: Sandra Franke (2010)
Research on Youth Issues
Youth dependency, Youth Education and Skill DevelopmentYouth Employment, Livelihood, and
Entrepreneurship Youth Social Capital and NetworkingYouth Sexual and Reproductive HealthYouth Violence and Suicide PreventionYouth Drug PreventionYouth Security and Justice Issues
Impart Skills
Don’t Consider youth restless rather harness potential
Don’t treat them as problem rather strengthImpart Life Skills
building team spirit Motivation sharing ideas problem solving skills conflict resolution Assertiveness communication and networking managing workload time management decision making and graduating from fellowship to leadership
Opening Windows of Opportunities
Access to Quality Education
Access to Health Services
Access to FinanceAccess to MarketsFeedback in Policy
MakingParticipation in
Governance, Accountability and Compliance
Facilitating Entrepreneurship
business environment for youth business skill training, mentorship access to finance.
re-zoning of spaces for commercial and private use markets, roads, transportations social and economic networking forums, enforcement of copy right laws, dispute resolution systems, and venture capitals for ambitious start ups.
Government Facilitator -Rules and Regulations Provision of missing facilities Provider of public community infrastructures
New Development Approach
Recommendations
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