The objective of the Youth, training and employment site is to report the multiple efforts implemented in the region by those training institutions, ministries and agents that do have direct competence in policy design, planning, execution and/or evaluation, programmes or projects address to youth.

It looks for improving the information flow generated by youth training and employment programmes in Latin America by means of a comunication, exchange and learning space; to increase quality, relevance and equity of the refered programmes through the study of learned lessons from implemented actions; etc. >>more

Gender equality at the heart of Decent Work campaign - Youth employment: Breaking gender barriers for young women and men

ILO launches year-long campaign “Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work”

Resource Guide on Youth Employment. Geneva: ILO, INFORM. 8 October, 2007.

ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. Decent work and youth : Latin America. Port of Spain, ILO, 2007.

Unemployment, informality and inactivity menace young people in Latin America and the Caribbean. ILO calls for better use of the growth, development and poverty reduction potential of 106 million youth in the region. ILO, 4 September 2007.

ILO. Global Employment Trends for Youth 2006

Schoof, U. Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship: Barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people. Geneva: ILO, 2006. (SEED Working Paper No. 76)

Lopez-Acevedo, G. An Alternative Technical Education System in Mexico: A reassessment of CONALEP. Policy Research Working Paper 2731. The World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit. December, 2001.

New ILO study says youth unemployment rising, with hundreds of millions more working but living in poverty

Youth employment in Latin America: Overcoming a lost decade. ILO Press releases. Regional Meeting for the Americas 2-5 May 2006.

Skill is power: broadening partnerships to promote youth employment. ILO, 13 February 2006.

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ILO. Youth. Decent work for young people: key messages