Congo
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)
- 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 Finance and Economy - Ministry of Budget, Public Accounts and Public PortfolioYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth are included as a priority group in the Accelerated National Development Plan (PND) 2022–2026, which aligns with the government’s designation of this period as the “Year of Youth”. The plan places a strong emphasis on youth inclusion, employment, and empowerment within national development efforts.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Under its youth component, the Accelerated National Development Plan (PND) 2022–2026 sets out the following main objectives: • To implement reforms through the enforcement of relevant legal frameworks, particularly in education, vocational training, and youth employability; • To promote youth employment and entrepreneurship; • To improve young people’s living conditions, including access to healthcare, culture, sports and leisure, and the promotion of equal opportunities.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Reduce the youth unemployment rate (ages 15 to 35) from 26.7% to 14.7% by 2027. • Reduce the NEET rate (young people Not in Employment, Education or Training) from 41.3% to 29.3% by 2027. • Increase the employment rate of young people aged 15 to 35 from 19.2% to 34.2% by 2027. • Increase the use of Public Employment Services (PES) in job searching from 10.7% to 40.7% by 2027.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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Not involved
- 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)
- Not involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Not involved
- 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)
- Not involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Yes
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
To ensure greater involvement of social partners in resolving youth employment issues, some PES management committees are chaired by representatives of employers' organisations. Similarly, there are plans to restructure the National Social Dialogue Committee (CNDS) and the National Labour Advisory Committee (CNCT) to include representatives of civil society.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:
2025: - AFD and EU (financing of the Mosala project: strengthening the alignment between training and employment); -- AFD (ARCEFA, RELIEEF, AMES, PARSA projects); - ILO (TREE programme, Surveys on the transition to working life, Development of national employment and training policy, Development of the operational directory of occupations and employment, etc.); - World Bank (skills development for employability project, social inclusion of young people, Pro Climat, etc.); - AfDB (skills and human resources development project - PDCRH, integrated development project for agricultural value chains in Congo - PRODIVAC, etc.); - UNDP (STAGI programme, One Youth One Trade programme, etc.). - UNESCO (training and integration of vulnerable young people in agro-pastoral sectors in the Pool region, development of the national youth policy, etc.); _______________________ 2022 survey: ILO: Decent Work Country Programme, TREE, AFD: support for the operationalisation of education, training and learning centres; The World Bank: youth skills development. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 survey: - World Bank (skills development, entrepreneurship); - French Development Agency (skills development); - African Development Bank (skills development); - UNESCO (skills development).