Fiji
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)
- 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:
Ministry of Youth and Sports and Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
National Youth Policy and the National Employment Policy.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
National goals and objectives to promote youth employment are under the National Youth Policy and the National Employment Policy. National Youth Policy - Policy Area 2: Education, skills and employment: - Ensure range of pathways for youth to enter workforce: ensure that a range of pathways and programmes exist for youth to transition to the workforce, including apprenticeships, technical-vocational education, non-formal education, higher education and linkages with the private sector and ensure that all pathways provide youth with quality skills that are relevant to the labour market –programmes should be accessible to all youth; - Ensure day care is available to enable young women into the workforce: ensure that affordable, quality day-care services are available across the country to enable young women to participate in the labour force, and that the barriers to women and in particular single mothers to accessing the labour market are knownand addressed; - Develop innovation among youth: develop accessible innovation hubs and strengthen support to small business enterprises to support and mentor youth, particularly in technology-related fields, including through peer mentorship, in entrepreneurship and job sourcing and creation, including through training, financing schemes and mentorship programmes; - Develop labour market social protection programmes: develop labour market social protection programmes for youth, including public infrastructure programmes, particularly targeted at income generation in rural and maritime areas; and - Strengthen links to youth diaspora: build and strengthen linkages with the youth diaspora to support the development of targeted youth programmes in education, employment and entrepreneurship.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
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Fully 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)
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Fully 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
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:
2024 Co-ordination with Fiji Chamber of Commerce including Fiji Commerce and Employer's Federation and Fiji Trade Union Congress. The Ministry of Youth and Sports Strengthens youth employment through its Youth Training Center's providing courses such as Certificate 4 in Music, Certificate 4 in organic Agriculture and Certificate 3 in Carpentry, Certificate 3 in Carpentry,Certificate 4 in Agriculture and through other short courses with community needs and industry on a need basis. --------------- 2020 The portfolio of Employment together with Youth and Sports under one Ministry is an example of the commitment to strengthen youth participation in employment pathways.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- 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:
The ILO Office for the Pacific offers support to the Fiji government.