Cuba
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)
- 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)
- No
- 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
- No
Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• Comprehensive Policy on Childhood, Adolescence and Youth • Decent Work ProgrammeCountries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Cuba’s approach to promoting youth employment includes the Decent Work Programme and the implementation of territorial employment management services.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- No
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- 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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- 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:
2025: PARTNERSHIPS WITH EMPLOYERS AND YOUTH AND MASS ORGANISATIONS. ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICES SUCH AS JOB FAIRS. PARTNERSHIPS WITH TRAINING CENTRES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULA AND COMPETENCIES AS PART OF CONTINUING EDUCATION SCHEMES. 2024: Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución. approved at the VIII Party Congress for the period 2021-2026. In particular number 109. Macro-programme Human Development, Equity and Social Justice, Project: Promotion and access to quality employment Project: Integral transformation of communities, groups, families/households and people in vulnerable situations. Programme for the Advancement of Women (PAM) Decree-Law 56/2021 "On the maternity of working women and the responsibility of families". _______________ Creation of alliances with the network of labour studies. Establishment of the Technical Advisory Council of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Creation of the Social and Labour Observatory, attached to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Local and socio-cultural development projects in the communities.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
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: ILO CUBA MEXICO RISPE 2024 Subscribed between the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Office for Mexico and Cuba in the field of their competences, in order to Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Mexico and Cuba, within the scope of their competencies, in order to jointly ensure the implementation of the project entitled: "Strengthening national capacities to promote green jobs and decent work in Cuba". decent work in Cuba". ____ ILO on participation in CINTERFOR