Gambia
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)
- 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:
The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and EmploymentYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
-National Development Plan 2018-2021 -National Employment Policy and Action Plan 2019-2024Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
-Policy harmonization and coherence in order to create a conducive environment for employment creation. -Promote skills development and employability. -Ensure gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups in all areas of employment. -Improve working conditions. -Create a conducive environment for private sector employment creation. -Facilitate the transition to decent work and formality. -Improve and widen social protection. -Strengthen labour market information systems. -Strengthen labour administration and social dialogueCountries 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
- No
- 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Consulted
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- 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)
- 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:
The Platform for Employment, Networking, Dialogue and Action (PENDA) is a committee that meets quarterly to discuss employment issues.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 supported a project called “Employment Creation for Youth to Build Sustainable Peace in The Gambia”; • The International Trade Centre is also supporting a project called Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) to address the root causes of irregular migration; • TEKKI FII Project funded by the EU Trust Fund for Africa • The UNCDF has a project called Jobs, Skills and Finance for youth and women. • Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development Project supported by UNDP