How would a Global Campaign for Youth Employment Work?

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David Woollcombe, Yunus Carrim MP, Olfa Soukri Cherif MP and Jeremy Lefroy MP

We know that youth unemployment is already too high. And young peoples’ jobs may be hit hard by automation. For these reasons we set out, this year, a plan for a global campaign for youth
employment.

Goals
1. To promote policies that will help UN Member states deliver on their UN SDG 8, Goal 5 promise to “achieve full and productive employment for all…”
2. To continue to push youth job creation ideas and policies higher up the agendas of all politicians, business leaders, NGOs, educators and young people;
3. To emphasise the importance of multiple, integrated interventions: the Systems Approach which involves implementing several policies simultaneously.
4. To forge, and energize, partnerships between stakeholders, because youth job creation cannot be achieved by any one stakeholder alone;