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Argentina

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.)
No
A draft strategy already exists
No
Other (please specify)
Yes

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:
Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Social Security - Ministry of Human Capital

Youth in the national development / employment strategy

Youth in the national development / employment strategy
Yes

Additional information:
Argentina includes young people as a target group within several national policies and programmes related to employment and development, such as: • Employment Promotion Programme (Fomentar Empleo) This programme aims to improve the employability of unemployed individuals, with a particular focus on young people, women, and those from low-income backgrounds. • Return to Work Programme (Volver al Trabajo) An initiative designed to strengthen employment opportunities, especially for young people without formal work. • Progresar Scholarship Programme While primarily focused on education, this programme supports young people to continue their studies and technical training, thereby enhancing their future employment prospects.

Countries with national goals for youth employment

Countries with national goals for youth employment
Yes

Additional information:
In 2024, through the Employment Promotion Programme (Fomentar Empleo) led by the Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Argentina implemented targeted measures to enhance employment opportunities, particularly for young people: • 146,930 individuals took part in vocational training courses. • 5,429 people developed productive or service-oriented enterprises, either individually or through cooperative ventures. • 42,587 participants engaged in work training placements or entered employment within companies as part of the programme.

Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment

Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
Yes

Policy areas in national youth employment strategies

Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
Yes
Enterprise Development
No
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)
Fully involved
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)
Consulted
Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Employers
Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
Fully involved
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)
Consulted
Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)

Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy

Fully involved
No
Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
No
Consulted
No
Informed
No
Not involved
No

Countries with national partnerships for youth employment

Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
Yes

Additional information:
2025: The SSEyFL has also taken steps to improve the adaptability of the workforce to emerging demands in different export sectors of the economy, innovation, and technological transformation. The Sectoral Roundtables are tripartite forums for social dialogue in which the training needs and demands of each productive sector are identified, and vocational training and continuing education actions are proposed and planned to respond to them. Since the creation of the Ministry of Human Capital in December 2023, the SSEyFL has focused on the link between education, production and work, seeking to promote an improvement in the availability and quality of human potential and the development of skills demanded by the productive sectors. To this end, it has been building synergies between policies related to industrial and sectoral development, innovation, continuing education and changes in the labour market. It has joined forces with representatives of the National Institute of Technological Education (INET) and different areas of the Ministry of Economy to coordinate its activities in the territory through the National Council for Education, Labour and Production (CONETyP). Diagnostic activities have been carried out in the hydrocarbons (Neuquén and Rio Negro), mining (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, San Juan and Mendoza) and forestry (Misiones, Corrientes and Entre Ríos) sectors, defining for the former a series of training actions related to construction that have already begun to be implemented. 2023: Some aspects of youth employment policies are dealt with in: - Sectoral Councils for Vocational Training - Federal Labour and Employment Council - Plenary sessions of the National Commission for the Eradication of Child Labour - Stakeholder Consultations

Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies

Women
Yes
Migrant Workers
Yes
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:
WORLD BANK Technical and financial support Inter-American Development Bank Financial and technical support