Gabon
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)
- No
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- No
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- No
- Other, specify
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
With European Union funding: Support for vocational training and integration (AFIP) https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/on_2012_022-182.pdf MINISTRY OF EMPLOYMENT, YOUTH, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, INTEGRATION AND REINTEGRATION, GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON Youth Apprenticeship Contract (CAJ) amounting to 151,599,676 CFA francs "ONE-Entreprendre" is made up of a Fund whose initial amount is more than 150 million CFA F to which will be monthly subscribed the sum of 3,000,000 CFA F, i.e. 36,000,000 million CFA F per year thanks to the sustainability of the management fee sharing mechanism in the implementation of the CAJ. The "ONE-Entreprendre" fund will be domiciled in a micro-finance institution (EDG) to serve as a guarantee fund facilitating the granting of micro-credits to project leaders.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
National Employment Policy.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- No
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
- No
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- 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)
- 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)
- Informed
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- 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)
- Informed
- 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)
- 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:
-As part of the professional integration of young people, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Vocational Training, chaired, on 23 October 2017 in Libreville, the signing ceremony of the Framework Partnership Contract "Youth Apprenticeship" between the Office of Ports and Harbors of Gabon (Oprag) and the Fund to support vocational integration and reintegration (FIR), in the presence of the Director General of the National Employment Office (ONE) The introduction of the youth apprenticeship contract is one of the decisions resulting from the first social conferences held in 2014. Since then, it has engaged youth in sectors and industries such as mining, food and beverages, and machinery.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- No
- People with disabilities
- No
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
- The European Union; - UNDP.