01 April 2021

Quality apprenticeships are an effective means of achieving a smooth school-to-work transition for young people by making it possible for them to acquire work experience along w...

01 April 2021

Les apprentissages de qualité sont un moyen efficace d'assurer une transition rapide et efficace entre l'école et le marché du travail pour les jeunes en...

24 March 2021

The technological revolution is remarkably transforming society. From the way we communicate, socialize, shop to the way we learn and work. These changes, which have been accent...

18 March 2021

La pandemia causada por el COVID-19 ha profundizado las desigualdades preexistentes. Las juventudes han sido particularmente afectadas en diferentes dimensiones: educativa, soci...

18 March 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened pre-existing inequalities. Youth have been particularly affected in different dimensions: educational, social, emotional, labor and recreation...

03 March 2021

Youth unemployment is once again on the rise. Over 3 million young people in the EU are now unemployed in the EU with their career aspirations put on hold. They view their futur...

24 February 2021

 This blog calls for the streamlining of labour market information for a vigorous economic recovery benefiting young women and men. Some of the measures im...

03 February 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had widespread social, political, and economic impacts including on education and employment, family life, and mental health and well-being. While head...

27 January 2021

Recognizing that rural youth, especially informal

16 December 2020

Youth unemployment and underemployment were already major and growing concerns in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) prior to the onset of the pandemic; not least because peop...

07 December 2020

Ever since the famous study by Kurt Lewin in 1936[1], scientists have been studying the concept of aspirations and how they affect an in...

03 December 2020

Krishneer Sen is originally from Korotogo village, located in the beautiful coral coast of Fiji. To gain a better education and work opportunities, he moved to the Capit...

18 November 2020

Oxfam, with support from the Danish Arab Partnership Program (DAPP), is implementing the five-year Y...

04 November 2020

Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges of an uncertain, post-pandemic future. Nowhere are these issues graver than within the demographic of young people, with already hi...

15 October 2020

Education data in sub-Saharan Africa: what do we know? In the last few years, access to education data[1] has b...

07 October 2020

Youth employment in North Macedonia has faced challenges since the beginning of the economic transition and the establishment of the country in 1991. The unemployment rate of yo...

16 September 2020

The COVID 19 crisis has laid bare the entrenched gender inequalities that, compounded with other inequalities, plague labour markets. As the latest

09 September 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is systemically, deeply and disproportionately impacting the lives of young people: particularly young women, yo...

27 August 2020

Kennedy is only 25 years. As a first born in a family of seven, he started working at the age of 16 years to support his parents in providing for the family. Kennedy’s par...

21 August 2020

As of the writing of this article there are more than 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Kenya. A limited testing capacity means that the real number of cases is likely much...

12 August 2020

We are living in unprecedented times. The Coronavirus pandemic has rapidly triggered a deep economic and social crisis; likely the worst in modern times. Young people are being...

16 July 2020

05 August 2020

The novel coronavirus pandemic has affected individuals around the wo...

29 July 2020

Entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and innovation in developing countries. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are labour intensive,...

22 July 2020

Very early during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people demonstrated their ingenuity and solidarity by helping at-risk community members such as older persons or persons with medi...

15 July 2020

In Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has am...

08 July 2020

Beyond a global health crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic is reinforcing pre-existing socio-economic inequalities. Facing historical marginalization -in both developing and developed...

02 July 2020

“If the children aren’t active, positive leaders and know that they have to demand their rights while they are young, they will not be active and innovat...

25 June 2020

We are all living through an unprecedented global crisis. Overcoming COVID-19 is a challenge that requires everyone across the world to play their part. Many of the young social...

18 June 2020

“In its economic and social impact, this virus picks out the most vulnerable and the least protected, and it hits them the hardest”. Guy Ryder, Director Gen...

15 June 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has a devastating impact on people and economies around the world. The Netherlands is no different: the virus has heavily hit the country and the effect...

10 June 2020

The worldwide lockdowns and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic have forced many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to reinvent their business models to continue oper...

05 June 2020

The promise Adeloye Olranrewaju, fondly called Lanre, is a young Nigerian entrepreneur. The 27-year-old inspires everyone with his dynamism an...

28 May 2020

Almost to the day one year ago, the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth brought together youth employment representatives and experts during its annual conference in Rome...

20 May 2020

‘After several years of hard work, I could finally see my work bear fruits. Because of the virus, we had to stop everything. I hope that my start-up will survive this...

14 May 2020

“This pandemic has affected me so much, it has given me a very hard time. I had six workers around, but I had to stop them from working because I can’t pay them....

12 May 2020

Things can change quickly in life. The security of one moment can quickly become impermanent before we have a chance to realize it. This is certainly the case with the crisis th...

08 May 2020

More than a decade after the global financial crisis sent youth unemployment rates soaring to an all-time high, a generation of young people once more look to a future filled wi...

07 May 2020

I have an unpopular opinion: COVID-19 isn’t the problem. It is a problem, a grave one no doubt, but it is exposing – not causing – all of the o...

05 May 2020

El derecho a la información es central para que las personas jóvenes ejerzan el conjunto de sus derechos y es, además, un derecho que se debe proteger. Es c...

30 April 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in one of the biggest global challenges of this generation. As countries intensify efforts to flatten the curve and contain the virus, it is cr...

29 April 2020

Shortly after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Economist’s front page depicted the world with a “CLOSED” sign.  The coronavirus pandemic has ind...

24 April 2020

By now, it has become crystal clear that the health crisis caused by the rapid spread of COVID-19 very expeditiously has turned into an economic one. The economies of the Wester...

22 April 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is significantly affecting the world’s most vulnerable groups, including the one billion people living in informal settlements and slums worldwide. T...

15 April 2020

Crises fall hardest on the most vulnerable. Young people make up one such group, particularly when it comes to the social and economic impact of the virus pandemic....