GCYE Youth Job Creation Introduction - Part TWO

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Securing full employment for all young women and men by 2030, one nation at a time presented by Jeremy Lefroy MP, Chair, Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF David Woollcombe, Acting Coordinator, Coalition for Youth Employment

Wednesday 23rd January 2019, Wilton Park Conference For discussion purposes only

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“They tell me, ‘If you can’t find a job, create your own: start a business!’ But nothing in my 12 years of schooling has given me one clue how to do this!”

Rahul, 19, India

“Marriage, a family, a home of my own – Dignity! I can get none of these things until I get a job…”

Sheku Syl Kamara, aged 18, Sierra Leone

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Inequality 65

Top 1%

% of Total Global Wealth

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Bottom 99%

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35 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 For discussion purposes only

House of Commons Library Research

CHALLENGE: to find out what works in the effort to Turbo-charge Youth Employment Global Forces

Impact

Demographic Youth Bulge

Globally, 6m new jobs are needed every month

In Low Income countries, only 5 – 15% will ever work in the formal, waged sector

The 21st Century Job Market requires 21st Century Skills

Inclusive Growth is not happening: rich get richer, poor get poorer

Livelihoods depend on selfemployment or small enterprise

Schools & VET institutions struggle to keep pace

Social tension & instability increases

Solutions XYZ Increase investment in youth job creation Enterprise education to be included in the DNA of all National Education Provision

Make it easier for Youth to Access Capital

Introduce a SYSTEMS APPROACH

Systemic problems, require systemic solutions For discussion purposes only

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“Heads stressed the importance of investing in a systems approach to create meaningful employment opportunities for the Commonwealth's growing youth populations including through skills-building, entrepreneurship, apprenticeships, and the need for better data to target interventions effectively. ” Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Final Communiqué, London, April 2018

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The FIVE Pillars of a Systems Approach Partnerships

Simultaneity

No one can do this alone: governments must work in partnership with the Private Sector, expert NGOs & Intl. agencies + Donors & Investors and young people themselves to solve the problem

Piecemeal interventions do not work. All aspects of the system that creates and sustains jobs must be overhauled at the same time.

National Coalitions

Youth Agency

Investors / Donors

No ‘One size fits all.’

Each country, each region, each town must create their own Coalitions for Youth Employment to ensure contextually appropriate policy creation.

Youth can – and should – provide the energy to drive a systems approach. It is their livelihoods we seek to create: youth must be empowered and enabled to do much of the leg-work of delivering change.

Youth job creation is a new field: the metrics are in their infancy – so there is a need for pumppriming and Action Research to deliver Proof of Concepts and concrete evidence of what works at scale.

To be identified

Create a National Board - then Benchmark - then make a National Plan of Action For discussion purposes only

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The Coalition for Youth Employment “We need an ambitious and tractable global partnership for youth employment, bringing together all relevant actors, governments, development agencies, the private sector and NGOs around a single vision and plan to deliver at scale.”

The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, Secretary of State, UK Dept. for International Development

We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants....

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“We need to transform Job-seekers into job creators….”

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Managing Director of the World Bank and Minister of Finance of Nigeria

“... policymakers need to ruthlessly re-orient the delivery of education.”

Alec Ross, former Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton,

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Key Partners NGOs & Academics G*u*i*d*a*n*c*e

Donors + Investors R"e"s"o"u"r"c"e"s

Private Sector Government Leadership*& J O B S Apprenticeships*& Work*Experience P*o*l*i*c*y*1*m*a*k*i*n*g YOUTH Voice*& A*g*e*n*c*y

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Education Skills*& skills1 matching

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Coalition’s Short-term Goal: Deliver Proof of Concept to the Kigali CHOGM in 2020 Policy Focus

Next Steps for T & T st

• Education: teach entrepreneurship & 21 Century skills; offer career guidance to all; encourage enterprise start-ups; • Inward Investment: Encourage business with Media campaigns, investment drives etc.

• Domestic Legislation / ALMRs: remove legal constraints to employing people;

This week: Agree Questionnaire & Launch bench-marking process; appoint coordinators for each stake-holder sector Feb / March 2019: Complete bench-marking; recruit Media Partner – start Gap Analysis; April 2019: Present Progress Report at the Global Parliamentary Conference at World Bank

• Engage with Private Sector: Match Skills • Empower Youth: make them feel responsible for finding solutions;

May / August 2019: Prepare Drafts of National Action Plan; combine to produce consolidated NAP to present to Cabinet

• Empower Disabled Youth: Give them a chance to find, or create, jobs;

Sept. 2019: Start the implementation of NAP nationwide

Kigali CHOGM, June 2020: Report on Progress to Commonwealth colleagues For discussion purposes only

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