Central African Republic
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
- No
- 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)
- No
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- No
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The State budget allocated 800,000,000 FCFA to the Ministry for 2016 for the implementation of the youth employment programme. As part of the implementation of the pilot project on peace building and decent employment creation, the ILO has granted funding of 600,000,000 CFA francs for 2018-2019. The AfDB has funded up to CFAF 2,299,312,522 the pilot project of the youth promotion strategy implemented by the High Commission for National Pioneer Youth (2018-2020).Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
-National Employment Policy; -The RCPCA/Pillar III/Result 3.2.1. Draw up a national programme to promote youth employment in vulnerable areas; -The National Youth Policy and its operational action plan.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
No further information is available.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Increase the rate of youth socio-professional integration y 60% between 2017 and 2021; Decrease the unemployment rate from 25% in 2016 to less than 10% in 2021.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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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:
The Central African Inter-professional Grouping and the majority of workers' organisations participate in dialogue platforms on employment promotion, including youth employment. The Ministry of Labour in collaboration with the ILO regularly develops collaborative initiatives with these key social partners. United Nations agencies (FAO, UNFPA, UNICEF, OCHA, UNDP) as well as banking institutions (ADB and WB) contribute and participate in the employability of young people according to their wishes and their choice of socio-economic and professional reintegration.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- No
- 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:
The ILO provides support through a Job for Peace and Resilience project that aims to strengthen peace-building through the massive creation of decent jobs for youth.