Lithuania
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.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- 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:
The Employment Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and the Agency of Youth Affairs are the main authorities implementing measures to support youth employment and are receiving financial resources to do so, including the implementation of Youth Guarantee. The Employment service supports youth employment and offers different services on active labour market policy measures for youth. The Agency of Youth Affairs was responsible for services for young people not in education, employment and trainings.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Lithuania includes youth as a target group in several national development, employment, and youth policy strategies: 1. Employment Law of the Republic of Lithuania: According to the consolidated version valid in December 2024, young unemployed individuals aged 16–24 are identified as a priority group eligible for additional labor market support (Art. 25, para. 8). This includes access to wage subsidies, active labor market policy (ALMP) measures, and personalized employment services for youth aged 16–29. 2. European Union Funds Investment Programmes: • 2014–2020 Operational Programme: NEET youth were explicitly targeted for employment and activation measures. • 2021–2027 EU Funds Investment Programme: NEET youth continue to be a priority target group, with support aimed at fostering their integration into education, training, or employment. 3. Inclusive Labour Market Development Programme: Identifies young people up to age 29 as a key target group for inclusive employment initiatives. 4. National Youth Policy Action Plan 2023–2027: Focuses entirely on youth-related issues, including the reduction of youth unemployment and the promotion of active participation in the labor market. Youth Guarantee Implementation Action Plan 2025–2029 Targets NEET youth aged 16–29, both unemployed and inactive, to ensure their access to employment, education, or training opportunities within four months of registration.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Lithuania has established national goals and objectives to promote youth employment, embedded across several national and EU-aligned policy frameworks: 1. Programme for the EU Funds' Investments 2021–2027: • Objective 4.1: Increase access to employment and activation measures, with a focus on young people, the long-term unemployed, vulnerable groups, and the economically inactive. This includes promoting self-employment and the social economy, particularly through implementation of the Youth Guarantee Initiative. • Objective 4.7: Promote active inclusion, equal opportunities, and non-discrimination, with a special emphasis on improving employability for disadvantaged groups, including youth. 2. Programme of the 19th Government of the Republic of Lithuania: • Paragraph 50 states the government’s commitment to using national and EU instruments to encourage youth employment and entrepreneurship, aiming for smooth integration into the labor market and fostering economic value creation by young people. 3. Strategic Action Plan (2024–2026) – Ministry of Social Security and Labour: • Priority No. 4: "Effective Employment Policy" • Includes implementation of the "Increasing of Employment" programme, which aims to expand employment opportunities for job seekers, including youth, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the employment support system. 4. National Youth Policy Action Plan 2023–2027: • Focuses on NEET prevention, summer employment programmes for young people, and career guidance to support informed transitions into the labor market. 5. Youth Guarantee Implementation Action Plan (2025–2029): • Aims to fully implement the Youth Guarantee for young people aged 15–29.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Reduce the NEET rate among young people aged 15–29 from 13.5% in 2023 to 9% by 2030. • Reduce the youth unemployment rate (aged 15–24, as a percentage of the labor force) from 13.8% in 2023 to 8.3% by 2030.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
- 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)
- Informed
- 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)
- Informed
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
- Employers
- 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)
- 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)
- Informed
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Public employment service implements different initiatives to strengthen national or international partnerships, including partnerships that contribute to youth employment. ----- In order to consolidate and ensure inter-institutional and inter-sectoral cooperation, the Memorandum of Cooperation on the implementation of the Youth Guarantee Initiative was signed on 14 January 2014. Investors' Forum, Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, Lithuanian Business Confederation, Lithuanian Confederation of Business Employers, Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts Association were among the parties who signed the Memorandum. --- 2023: Public employment service implements different initiatives to strengthen national or international partnerships, including partnerships that contribute to youth employment.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- No
- 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
- No