First Pacific Portal on Youth Employment
The ILO Pacific Youth Employment Programme titled Sub-Regional Programme on Education, Employability and Decent Work for Youth in Pacific Island Countries and the Pacific Youth Council signed a five month Service Contract today, 30th November 2009. The purpose is to create a portal to share information and stimulate discussion on youth employment on the Pacific Youth Council website. This Service Contract is for five months beginning 1 December 2009. This initiative is in line with one of the ILO Youth Employment Programmes Immediate Objectives of enhancing the knowledge of how to better address the challenges faced by young women and men in securing decent wage and self-employment.
The Pacific Youth Council through its website (www.pacificyouthcouncil.org) will embark on hosting content provided by the ILO Youth Employment Programme and generating e-discussions on the issue of Youth Employment. The Pacific Youth Council is a non governmental regional organisation, with National councils in 8 Pacific Countries, that empowers young people to become active citizens and leaders. The Council provides a platform for the interest, needs and development of young people of the Pacific Region. The website currently has membership of approximately 700 youths. In early august the website was tapped by the UN Programme on Youth to host an on-line forum.
The Pacific Youth Council hopes to use the valuable information generated from this initiative for the International Year of the Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding (August 2010) where outcomes of these discussions would feed into the World Youth Conference
2010.
We invite you to register (http://www.pacificyouthcouncil.org/index.php/forum )and join the Youth Employment e-discussions.
We would welcome your thoughts on the following topics:
v Best Practices on Youth Employment in the Pacific
v Challenges or obstacles faced by youth in securing jobs or engaging in
self-employment activities/business
v Gender barriers on youth employment
v The youth employment situation your country
v Resources needed to support young men and women in wage or
self-employment