Albania
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
- Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation - National Agency for Employment and SkillsYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
- National Strategy for Employment and Skills 2023-2030 - Law 15/2019 "On employment promotion"Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
National Strategy for Employment and Skills 2023-2030: supported and inclusive school-to-work transition for young people (NEET) through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee scheme. The Albanian government and institutions relevant to employment, education and training will ensure that every young person under the age of 29 (NEET) has a decent offer of employment, training or education within a reasonable period of time from the moment of identification, in line with the European Commission recommendations. Therefore, in cooperation with line ministries, a national plan for the implementation of the Youth Guarantee was designed and it provides for several reforms divided into four phases: mapping, engagement, preparation and delivery. -For the mapping phase, programs and instruments will be developed to prevent the increase in the number of NEET youth based on the information generated by the VET system; a monitoring system for early dropping-out will be established and the in-school career guidance service will be strengthened. -For the engagement phase, community-based information campaigns and campaigns applying innovative social media engagement methods will be organized in collaboration with partners and stakeholders to spread information and reach the young people in location. -During the preparation phase, new registration instruments will be developed on the NAES portal, the employment offices staff capacities will increase to serve new jobseekers, and the partnerships created between individual service providers and various other public authorities and non-public organizations to deliver more specialized services for NEET youth will be used. In order to administer and monitor the Youth Guarantee, the labour market information management system will expand to track the NEET youth journey before, during and after their inclusion in the Youth Guarantee scheme. -For the delivery phase, programs to promote employment and training will be developed and tailored such as employment supporting programs, vocational secondary, post-secondary and part-time education programs, and continuous training and internship programs to enhance basic and professional skills.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Reducing youth unemployment rate for youth aged 15-24 years old from 26.5% in 2021 to 23% in 2026 and to 18% in 2030 Reducing the Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) rate of the age group 15-29 years old from 26.1% in 2021 to 22% in 2026 and to 15% in 2030.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Yes
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
For the Implementation of the Youth Guarantee scheme in Albania by Order of the Prime Minister no. 28 dated 24.02.2022, two working groups have been established: (i) technical working group; and (ii) inter-institutional working group with partners such as Ministry of Economy (responsible for the Employment Policies), Ministry of Education Ministry of social Protection, Ministry of Education and key implementing agencies related to employment, education and qualifications. Likewise, youth umbrella organizations, social partners and various experts are active part of these groups. Various partnership are created and are planned to be created for the introduction and piloting of Youth Guarantee Scheme in Albania. EU UNDP UNICEF ILO *YOUTH-LED ORGANIZATIONS* National Youth Congress National Youth Congress NGOs and Social Partners Business Albania International Trade Union Confederation Union Of Independent Trade Unions of Albania CRCAInclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
IPA Project Technical Assistance for Facility implemented by ILO