Belarus
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- No
- 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 Education of the Republic of Belarus - Ministry of Labour and Social Protection - Local executive and administrative authoritiesYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
- State Programme on Labour Market and Employment Promotion 2021-2025Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
- Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the Fundamentals of State Youth Policy": promotion of young people's right to work and their professional development; creation of conditions for self-realisation, free and effective participation of young people in the political, social, economic and cultural development of society; State support for talented and gifted young persons; Implementation of human resources policy for youth. - Strategy for the Development of State Youth Policy of the Republic of Belarus until 2030: introduction of new modern forms of youth employment; creation and development of universal competencies of young persons for their successful professional self-realisation; reducing (minimising) youth unemployment; improving the incentives for hiring young people; ensuring the protection of the rights of working youth; developing youth entrepreneurship, including in the social sphere. - State Programme "Education and Youth Policy" for 2021-2025: professional self-realisation, career development, youth entrepreneurship; promotion of young people's right to work, secondary employment of young people, development of the student team movement. - State Programme "Labour Market and Employment Promotion" 2021-2025: Promotion of youth employment in order to gain practical work experience.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
- Reducing unemployment among 16-30 year olds from 6.5% in 2020 to 6.3% by 2025 - The proportion of NEET youth (aged 15 to 24) who are not studying, working as a proportion of the total population aged 15 to 24 from 6.8% in 2020 to 6% by 2025.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)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Not involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Informed
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
- 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)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Informed
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- 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:
2023 survey: The Youth Council (Parliament) under the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus participates in the formation of the strategy for international youth cooperation in the EAEU and the annual roadmap for its implementation. The Belarusian Republican Youth Union has established cooperation with the Russian student brigades. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2022 survey: In order to promote youth employment, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has established partnerships with educational authorities, business entities, youth public associations, and other civil society representatives. For example, the Ministry of Education directly participated in developing and implementing employment promotion measures under the State Program on Social Protection and Promotion of Employment of the Population for 2016-2020. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, together with the Public Association “Belarusian Republican Youth Union”, work to support part-time employment of young people (in their free from studies time). __________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 survey: To promote youth employment, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has established partnerships with educational authorities, business entities, youth associations, and other civil society groups. For example, the Ministry of Education has been directly involved in designing and implementing employment promotion measures as part of the State Program for Social Protection and Employment Promotion, 2016-2020. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, in cooperation with the Youth Union of the Republic of Belarus has been addressing employment issues of young people when they have completed their studies. As part of the implementation of the government’s youth policy, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has regularly contributed to various youth projects. For example, a representative of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection sits on the panel of a nation-wide youth project called "One Hundred Ideas for Belarus". This is a contest aimed at promoting innovation and professional mobility of young people and at designing and promoting innovative projects and forward-looking scientific and technical research. Also, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and the Belarus Red Cross have been supporting a project of international technical assistance to promote youth employment.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- No
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
A promising area of cooperation in 2019 was the implementation of the international technical assistance project EU4Youth: Employment Capacity Building (approved by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on October 17, 2018, No. 744), with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection acting as national coordinator of the project. The funding comes from the European Union as part of the EU Youth Initiative for 2017-2020. The project aims at promoting the educational opportunities and capacities of youth in Armenia, Belarus and Georgia.