Madagascar
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
- No
Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth are included as a target group within several key national frameworks, including: • The General State Policy; • The National Employment and Training Policy; • The FANOITRA Strategy; • The Programmatic Framework for Employment and Entrepreneurship; • The Roadmap on Madagascar’s Demographic Dividend, particularly its employment pillar.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The main objectives to promote youth employment include: • Creating decent jobs for young people; • Promoting youth entrepreneurship; • Providing vocational training for young people.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
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
- 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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- Informed
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- 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)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Informed
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:
2025: - Programme pole stage in collaboration with the Syndicat des Industrie de Madagascar - Partnership with the private sector: Groupement des Exportateurs d'huile essentielle de Madagascar, IECD, ISCAM Business School, etc. - Partnership with local players: social partners, civil society, key ministries, etc. as part of the establishment of the Maison de l'Emploi et de la Formation (Employment and Training Centre). 2024: The organisation of the Youth Forum on Employment and Development in 2022 has strengthened national partnerships to promote youth employment. ----- 2023: Partnership with the Syndicat des Industries de Madagascar through the Pôle Stage Madagascar with the collaboration of several public and private universities (Minstry of Education) Support for TFPs in carrying out studies on youth employmentOrganisation of employment fairs targeting young people (ministry of employment). ___________________________________________ ILO Association Entreprendre à Madagascar IFAD/Programme FORMAPRO Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie National youth associations 2022: The following national partners are involved in the training of young people: - Fonds Malgache de la Formation Professionnelle (FMFP) - Caisse Nationale pour la Prevoyance Sociale (CNAPs)Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- No
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025 - ILO involves us in their employment projects - The ILO has supported us in organising the caravan for professional guidance for young people and in building the capacity of the regional employment services, operationalising the regional employment information system in the Atsinanana region. - Other agencies support the promotion of employment, but for the moment there is no direct support from the Ministry in charge of employment: UNDP, UNIDO, the Integrated Growth Pole or PIC, the ADB, the World Bank, etc. 2024: - Through the ProAgro YOUTH project, the ILO is enabling 1,500 rural young people to access decent work as salaried employees or self-employed in agricultural and agri-food value chains. Type of support: Institutional support and capacity building through the establishment of agro-industrial clusters and the development of an integrated programme for self-employment and salaried employment of young people; Evidence-based knowledge management and strategic communication focused on policy dialogue on decent job creation for rural youth. - Through the EAGER project, the World Bank aims to empower young women. Type of support: capacity building to improve employability; individual or group mentoring and coaching; active learning; grants to women project promoters; support for consumption with a cash transfer; support for investment in the start-up or expansion of income-generating activities in the form of self-employment or micro-enterprise... The implementing agency is the Fonds d'Intervention pour le Développement (FID). ---- -ILO: Technical and financial support for the restructuring of youth entrepreneurship promotion, training of trainers in entrepreneurship, training and support for young entrepreneurs, technical and vocational training and professional integration of young people, strengthening the Youth/Employment and Entrepreneurship Houses, implementation of the "Valorisation des Acquis et des Expériences (VAE)" system. -OIF: Technical and financial support for the regional meeting of young people such as the FIJEV http://vivons-ensemble.net/fr/events/forum-international-jeunesse-et-emplois-verts-fijev