Norway
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.)
- No
- 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)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
During the covid-19 pandemic, already ongoing initiatives targeting young people were considerably strengthened, both under the responsibility of the labour market authority, the health authority and the field of education, with the aim of facilitating education and employment.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Increasing the proportion of young people in employment.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
- No
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- No
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- Consulted
- 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)
- 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
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Agreement of Intent on a more inclusive working life: The tripartite cooperation for a more inclusive working life aims to contribute to high employment and mobilization of the workforce through preventing and reducing sick leave and withdrawal from working life. This agreement does not target young people in spesific. The PES has entered into agreements with companies on local, regional and national level, but not specifically aimd at young people in spesific. KS (Kommunenens sentralorganisasjon) The sector's organization for the municipalities in Norway has started an initiative to employ more disadvantaged young people in the municipalities.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- No
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- 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
- No