Malawi
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:
Ministry of Finance and Economic AffairsYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth Employment, Enterprise and Skill Development is the priority area 1 of the National Youth Policy 2023-2028. The Malawi 2063 Implementation Plan I has identified the following as key goals and strategies that will promote youth employment: 1. Establish job centers. 2. Establish one-stop business information and services provision centres in district councils across the country to cater for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Cooperatives and Industries. 3. Expand access and quality Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship training institutions for skills development and innovation. 4. Promote and incentive youth engagement in the Agricultural sector through increased mechanization and formation of youth-led agriculture clubs, cooperatives and companies. 5. Promote for youth engagement in other sectors such as mining, transport, tourism, hospitality and food industries. 6. Institutionalise the National Internship and Volunteerism programmes to facilitate skills transfer.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The National Youth Policy includes the goal to increase youth employment and enterprise development opportunities through enhanced access to productive assets, business support services and responsive regulatory frameworks. Other national goals include: 1. Promote review of education curricula that are responsive to skills demands of the industry and other sectors that underline the spirit, skills and infrastructural capacities for innovation, entrepreneurship and decent job creation; 2. Advocate for increased access to quality Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship training institutions for skills development and innovation especially targeting the youth not in education, employment and training (NEET); 3. Encourage youth engagement in the agricultural sector through increased mechanization and formation of youth-led agriculture hubs, clubs, cooperatives and companies; 4. Incentivise youth engagement in agriculture through provision of licences, soft loans, start-up capital, tool kits and tax exemptions on agricultural tools and machinery; v. Promote youth engagement in non-traditional sectors such as Energy, Mining, Transport, Tourism, Hospitality and Food industries through youth-owned enterprises and cooperatives; 5. Institutionalise the National Internship, Volunteerism and Apprenticeship programmes to facilitate skills transfer as a means to smooth entry into the labour market in rural and urban areas; 6. Facilitate access and provision of appropriate and responsive support services towards Youth Enterprise Development; and 7. Establish mechanisms that support and engage the youth working in the diaspora to participate in national development.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Reducing the youth unemployment rate from 25.3% in 2018 to 17.7% by 2030.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
- 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- 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)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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:
2024: We are creating partnerships with international organizations and other developmental partners to scale up youth employment interventions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2023: There are a long standing partnerships with institutions such as African Development Bank, World Bank, European Union and USAID mainly focused on economic empowerment of the youth through various programmes and projects. __________________ 2022: In some of the projects and programmes, the Ministry has partnered with line Ministries, institutions such as Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA), Employers' Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM), Institutions of Higher Learning, Private Sector institutions, Tech Hubs in strengthening programming that promotes youth employment in Malawi. Of late, the Ministry of Labour has partnered with the Confederation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chamber for Small and Medial Business Association, the Indigenous Business Association of Malawi on the job creation agenda. The Civil Society has also been engaged.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:
2024: Through the Pro-Agro Youth Project, ILO is promoting youth employment in Malawi 2023: ILO: Is supporting a number of initiatives under the Malawi Decent Work Country Programme 2020-2023 e.g. recognition of prior learning European Union: Is supporting the Skills for Jobs programme which focuses on enhancing the entrepreneurship skills of the youth and providing them with start up capital UNDP African Development Bank USAID UNFPA World Bank The above four provide financial and technical support for youth economic empowerment initiatives e.g. with funding from World Bank, COMSIP has engagement TEVETA to train the youth and support them with start.up capital. This is a five years’ project __________________________________ 2022: The Ministry of Labour is largely supported by ILO on interventions that promote job creation including youth employment. Plan International supported the Ministry to develop the National Job Creation Strategy. The International Organisation for Migration is supporting development of Labour Migration Policy. The Ministry of Youth and Sports has partnered with ILO and UNICEF in provision of skills training to vulnerable girls in rural areas in Malawi though for a short period of time.