SCALING UP IN YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

The Youth Employment Working Group is made up of a global group of youth development professionals and aims at sharing knowledge and best practices to bridge the gap between what individual efforts can achieve and what the global youth unemployment requires. The Working Group believes in order to make large scale youth employment changes, there must be collaboration between different actors in any local echo system. Although the group recognizes that while efforts to launch youth employment programs have multiplied in the last decade and a half, only a small proportion of such programs succeed to meet the huge need of youth employment at scale. Therefore, the members of the group aspire to share knowledge, tools and best practices on how to scale up youth programming and benefit large cohort of unemployed youth globally. In addition to quarterly virtual meetings, the Working Group supports informal exchanges of knowledge among its members on how to scale up youth employment outcomes. Like all CoP Working Groups, participation in, and management of, the Youth Employment Working Group is done on voluntary basis. We welcome your thoughts and suggestions on how to make this group more useful to youth participants, donors and implementers.

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Utilizing IT Platforms to Enhance Youth Employment

Description In this webinar, we will discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms can facilitate the scaling up of youth employment in MENA through AI-powered up-skilling and mentorship targeted at unemployed youth and tech startups. This webinar will highlight a model aim at connecting technology professionals in the United States with youth job seekers to enhance their networking opportunities, expose them to the US market, and assist them in accessing virtual tech jobs remotely. While technology serves as a platform for ...
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Scaling Youth Employment in Response to Opportunities Created by the Energy Transition

Description Liz Vance, the session moderator, began the session by explaining that green jobs are one of the world’s most rapidly growing occupations: the International Energy Agency projects that adopting clean energy technologies will generate millions of jobs by 2030, with millions more to retrofit and construct energy-efficient buildings and manufacture new energy vehicles. The World Economic Forum’s 2023 future of jobs report cites the green transition as the key driver of job growth. However, most countries are not making the needed investments in green job training programs. As an ...
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Beyond Digital Training Delivery, Digital Disruption, and Youth Economic Opportunities

Moderator Jessica Ngo, Deputy Chief of Party, Management Systems International Speakers Rebeca De La Vega, Regional Manager, Cisco Hisham Jabi, Founder and CEO, PalTechUS Session Materials The Digital Economy: A Big Opportunity for the Young - Rebecca de la Vega Youth Employment in the Mena Region - Hisham Jabi ...
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2021 Annual Workshop: Youth Employment Working Group Session

Speakers: Rene Espinosa, President of the Mexican Aerospace Federation and Plant Manager at Metal Finishing in Chihuahua Mexico Moderators: Liz Vance, Program Director of Systems Change for Workforce Development at IYF, Co-Chair of the Youth Employment Working Group Introduction: Jess Ngo, Technical Manager at Management Systems International, Co-Chair of the Youth Employment Working Group ...
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