Canada
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
- 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:
Employment and Social Development Canada is the lead for the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy. It is administered in collaboration with 11 other federal departments, including: • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; • Global Affairs Canada; • Canadian Heritage; • Environment and Climate Change Canada; • Indigenous Services Canada; • Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada; • Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada; • National Research Council; • Natural Resources Canada; • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; • Parks Canada. Each department has its own budget for its programming under the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- No
Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Canada’s national objectives to promote youth employment focus on ensuring that young people have equitable access to the skills, experiences, and opportunities needed to successfully transition into the labor market or return to (or remain in) education. Key goals include: • Job Readiness: Supporting youth in acquiring the skills, knowledge, and supports necessary to enter the workforce. • Acquire Employment: Enabling youth to attain and retain quality employment opportunities. • Career Advancement: Helping youth develop the skills required for long-term career growth and mobility. • Employer Engagement: Supporting employers in their ability to hire and retain young workers.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- No
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- No
- Labour Market Policies
- No
- 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)
- Informed
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Informed
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Informed
- 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)
- 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)
- Informed
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Informed
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Informed
- 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)
- Consulted
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 Youth Employment and Skills Strategy program funds strategic collaborations that brings stakeholders from different sectors together. The program also prioritizes partnerships for funding. ___ 2023: The YESS program funds strategic collaborations that brings stakeholders from different sectors together. The program also prioritizes partnerships for funding. Youth employment programs are delivered by the federal, provincial and territorial governments, and efforts are made to support complimentary among programs that impact youth employment. The Government of Canada, through the YESS, has committed to help young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment, get the information and gain the skills, work experience and abilities they need to make a successful transition into the labour market. Funding was committed for the creation of work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for post-secondary students through the Student Work Placement (SWP) Program. It helps post-secondary students to develop work ready skills, employers to hire and develop talent, and post-secondary institutions to keep pace with changing on-the-job expectations. In 2020, the Innovative Work-Integrated Learning Initiative was launched to broaden the scope of WIL opportunities supported by the federal government to include new and emerging types. These opportunities help students connect with potential employers and peers in their chosen field, identify, develop, test, apply and articulate their skills in a work environment, and to develop transferable skills. This Initiative provides a stipend per opportunity to students participating, depending on the nature and intensity of the opportunity provided. _____________________ 2022: The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy program funds strategic collaborations that brings stakeholders from different sectors together. The program also prioritizes partnerships for funding.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)
- Yes
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- No