Botswana
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
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
- Ministry of Youth Empowerment, sport & culture Development (Youth Development Fund, Internship Programme ) - Ministry of Food & security ( Agriculture ) LIMID - All ministries & government departments (Infrastructure) procurement from youth companies, PPADB Registration, Youth Freelancing , Temporary employees - Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC) receives the funds from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. - National Internship Programme - National Service Programme - Graduate Volunteer Scheme - Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism – 100 MonumentsYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
National Internship Programme - Statistics of interns, National service participants, Volunteers. Youth Development Fund Programme -Statistics of youth funded projects National Youth Policy – Youth employment opportunities created Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, National Action Plan for Youth Employment Ministry of Youth, sport and Culture, Revised National Youth Policy 2010 National Development Plan 11 April 2017 – March 2023Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
- Create employment opportunities for the youth. - Conduct youth learning exchanges both locally and internationally. - Inclusion of young people in decision making structures.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
- 20 percent of the budget allocation for youth in all ministries, including for youth businesses (micro procurement). - All Ministries and Independent departments to apply 15 percent of price preference margin for all youth companies in open tenders (Presidential Directive CAB 19 ( B) 2013). - Reservation of maintenance of government facilities by all Ministries, to set aside 15 % of their budget to youth companies. Affirmative Action for the youth 2015.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Fully 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Fully 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)
- Fully involved
- 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
- 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:
MYSC AND LEA have established a partnership by signing an MOU through which LEA shall provide mentorship services to youth funded under the Youth Development Fund. MYSC and FNBB, through their partnership the youth in business have benefited in training and monetary sponsorship relevant in sustenance of their businesses. Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) is a body under the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC), whose mandate is to coordinate issues of character building in partnership with Non-Government Organisation and Community-based Organisations. BNYC engages part of the stakeholders outside the government sphere, through social contracting of youth owned companies.Inclusiveness 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:
- UNDP-youth entrepreneurship development, - Embassies and High Commission- offer exchange programmes - ILO- the Decent Work Country Programme