Cameroon
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)
- No
- 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:
Financing is provided by the State budget of Cameroon as well as by Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs). However, the limited mobilisation of financial resources has posed a significant challenge to the effective and efficient implementation of planned activities of the National Action Plan for Youth Employment, Phase 2 (“Plan d’Action National pour l’Emploi des Jeunes – PANEJ 2”) in Cameroon. .Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Cameroon includes youth as a target group in several national strategies and policies: • The National Development Strategy (SND30) • The National Action Plan for Youth Employment (PANEJ2), covering the period 2016–2020 • The National Youth Policy, covering the period 2015–2020Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Cameroon has established a range of objectives and actions to promote youth employment, as reflected in national strategies: • Developing incentives to support youth employment, as outlined in the National Development Strategy (SND30); • Strengthening the skills of young people for employment, through the National Action Plan for Youth Employment (PANEJ); • Reinforcing emergency initiatives to support the employment of youth in vulnerable or fragile situations (PANEJ); • Aligning young people's professional qualifications with labour market needs, to improve employability and job placement.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Reduce the overall unemployment rate from 6.1% in 2021 to 4% by 2030. • Reduce the overall underemployment rate from 65% in 2020 to below 50.1% by 2030.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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- 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)
- Consulted
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Consulted
- 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)
- 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)
- Consulted
- 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
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Partnership agreement between the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training (MINEFOP) and the PUENE Françoise Foundation for Freedom (FPFL) on promoting youth employment as part of the Youth Connekt Cameroon (YCC) project. 2024: partnership agreement between the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training (MINEFOP) and the Fondation PUENE Françoise pour la Liberté (FPFL) on the promotion of Youth Employment within the framework of the Youth Connekt Cameroon (YCC) ProjectInclusiveness 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)
- Yes
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: The International Labour Office provides technical and financial support for all employment issues in general and youth employment in particular. 2024: The International Labour Office provides technical and financial support for employment issues in general and youth employment in particular.