Egypt
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)
- Yes
- 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
- Yes
Additional information:
Ministry of Finanace and Ministry of Planning and Economic DevelopmentYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
- The Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030 - The Employment strategy 2018-2030Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The government’s program emanating from Egypt’s Vision 2030 includes five strategic goals, and the promotion of employment levels is the fourth strategic goal, which contains a set of main and subsidiary programs, and under these programs there are a set of projects and initiatives to promote youth employment, including, for example: 1. Employment forums held annually by Egyptian universities in cooperation with the private sector. 2. Providing soft loans for young people through the National Project for Human and Social Development (Mashroa’ak -Your Project) funded by Egyptian banks. 3. Providing loans for the implementation of micro-projects in the governorates for youth and female breadwinners, with a value of about EGP100 million, and providing about 20 thousand job opportunities. 4. Expanding the establishment of entrepreneurship centers and programs to link the industry and the labor market. 5. Establishing 200 business incubators annually, and designing programs and curricula for schools and universities for entrepreneurship training, targeting 5,000 young people annually. 6. Women's economic empowerment through the (One Village, One Product) program to provide 10,000 job opportunities for young graduates.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
There are quantitative targets mentioned in programmes and activities of the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Qualifying youth for the labor market and spreading the culture of self-employment). For example, these programs target 1.822 million beneficiaries out of the total number of unemployed people in the current year of 2.211 million individuals, which represents 82.4%.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- 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)
- Informed
- 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)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Informed
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Informed
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Not 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
1. The initiative to qualify five million young people for the labor market in the field of information technology (Tawwar wa Ghayyar), in cooperation with Microsoft - Ministry of Communications - Care Foundation. 2. Training young people on how to get suitable work in line with their skills in cooperation with the ILO. 3. Preparing and raising the competencies of trainers in the field of information technology, e-marketing, digital transformation and artificial intelligence to raise the level of services in cooperation with training academies and civil society. 4. Establishing technological projects based on innovative human-centered thinking in cooperation with the UNDP. 5. Supporting and empowering young entrepreneurs by placing all services, solutions and events under a set of programs (incubation / training, guidance and consulting / financing) in cooperation with the Academy of Scientific Research - British Council - Microsoft - UNDP.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- No
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- No
- Rural workers
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
1. Youth Employment in Egypt, Job Creation and Private Sector Development Project in Rural Areas (Rawabet), implemented by the International Labor Organization with funding from the Norwegian government. 2. Increasing the activation of entrepreneurship programs, launching young people of their projects in the labor market, and establishing the first business accelerator, while providing the necessary support for it. The project is funded through a grant in the amount of 150,000 euros provided by the Spanish Agency and Microsoft. 3. Providing a professional counseling service for young people to qualify them to set up a small project and change concepts related to the culture of self-employment with the support of UNICEF, by bearing 50% of the funding.